US 2021/0241388 A1Published application

Social Mobile Application for Locating Businesses and Users

AssigneeJOYND, Inc.

InventorLacey Arevalo

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Abstract

A location enabled mobile application that enables personal users to locate businesses based on search criteria such as business type, location, services offered and events. Personal and business users may create a detailed profile with business profiles including business name, business type, location, contact information, images, services offered, promotions, events and detailed service information. Personal users may search business profiles based on various criteria such as location, business type, services offered, promotions and events. Once results are found, a personal user may view details of the business, communicate directly with the business, book services and various other options depending on the features enabled by the business user. Personal users may enable social options that allow other personal users to discover them while in close proximity to each other. These social options allow personal users to exchange messages, connect outside the application and send electronic payments to each other.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for a personal user to locate a business, purchase a business service and to communicate with other personal users located at the business comprising the steps of:

Creating a business profile for the business, said business profile comprising a business name, a business location, at least one business category, at least one business photo, a business calendar and at least one business service available at the business location;
Creating a personal user profile for the personal user, said personal user profile comprising a username and a personal user calendar;
Connecting at least one social media account of the personal user to the personal user profile;
Connecting at least one electronic payment provider of the personal user to the personal user profile;
Determining the location of the personal user;
Executing a search for a business profile based on a set of search criteria;
Displaying a set of search results of business profiles based on said search criteria;
Selecting a business profile from the set of search results;
Granting communication permission between the personal user and other personal users within a set distance radius;
Sending a message from the personal user to another personal user within the set distance radius;
and
Sending an electronic payment from the personal user to another personal user within the set distance radius.

9 more elements

A computer system for a personal user to locate a business, purchase a business service and to communicate with other personal users located at the business comprising:

A computing device comprising:
A processor,
Memory,
Storage for an operating system and applications,
A connection to the internet;
A means for locating the computing device;
An application loaded into the storage on said computing device comprising:
A rendering engine for displaying the application on the computing device;
A means for accessing the location of the personal user from the computing device;
A user interface for the personal user to interact with the application;
A personal user profile for the personal user, said personal user profile comprising a username and a personal user calendar;
At least one social media account of the personal user connected to the personal user profile;
At least one electronic payment provider of the personal user connected to the personal user profile;
Search functionality for searching business profiles on a business database stored on an a server;
A server comprising:
One or more processors,
Memory,
Storage for an operating system, applications and databases,
A connection to the internet;
A database of business profiles stored in the storage, each profile for a said business profile comprising a business name, a business location, at least one business category, at least one business photo, a business calendar and at least one business service available at the business location;
A database of personal user profiles stored in the storage, each profile for a personal user comprising a username and a personal user calendar;
The application configured to:
Determine the location of the personal user;
Execute a search for a business profile based on a set of search criteria;
Display a set of search results of business profiles based on said search criteria;
Select a business profile from the set of search results;
Grant communication permission between the personal user and other personal users within a set distance radius;
Send a message from the personal user to another personal user within the set distance radius;
and
Send an electronic payment from the personal user to another personal user within the set distance radius.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/154,089Filed 21 Jan 2021
Priority: 22 Jan 2020
Published: 5 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

G06Q 30/0281
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service…
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services
G06Q 20/102
Specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems: bill distribution or payments
G06Q 20/227
Payment schemes or models: characterised in that multiple accounts are available, e.g. to the payer

Family

Application62/964,494Us provisional application · filed 22 Jan 2020
US 2021/0241388 A1This patent

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