System and method for assisting gifters with finding gifts for recipients

A computer program product for assisting gifters with finding gifts for recipients, the computer program product being encoded on one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media and comprising:

• instruction for enabling a gifting user to create and maintain a recipient profile for a recipient user, the recipient profile including relationship information between the gifting user and the recipient user, occasion information for one or more occasions associated with the recipient user, recipient preference information, recipient contact information, and gifting user payment information for the gifting user;
• instruction for notifying the gifting user of an upcoming occasion for the recipient user based upon the occasion information of the recipient profile;
• instruction for permitting the gifting user to provide budgetary information for a gift to be dispatched to the recipient user for the upcoming occasion;
• instruction for proposing one or more suggested gifts for the upcoming occasion based upon the budgetary information, the relationship information and the recipient preference information;
• instruction for enabling the gifting user to select a selected gift from among the suggested gifts;
• instruction for applying the recipient contact information to dispatch the selected gift to the recipient;
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• instruction for applying the gifting user payment information to pay for the selected gift.

A system for assisting gifters with finding gifts for recipients, comprising:

• a computer circuit for enabling a gifting user to create and maintain a recipient profile for a recipient user, the recipient profile including relationship information between the gifting user and the recipient user, occasion information for one or more occasions associated with the recipient user, recipient preference information, recipient contact information, and gifting user payment information for the gifting user;
• said computer circuit notifying the gifting user of an upcoming occasion for the recipient user based upon the occasion information of the recipient profile, permitting the gifting user to provide budgetary information for a gift to be dispatched to the recipient user for the upcoming occasion, proposing one or more suggested gifts for the upcoming occasion based upon the budgetary information, the relationship information and the recipient preference information, enabling the gifting user to select a selected gift from among the suggested gifts, applying the recipient contact information to dispatch the selected gift to the recipient and applying the gifting user payment information to pay for the selected gift;
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• a database circuit for storing the recipient profile among other user profiles created and maintained by other system users.