Peer-to-peer affinity-group commerce method and system
US8185433B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 1, 2005 |
| Grant date | May 22, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 8, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q99/00
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A P2P (peer-to-peer) business and commerce-enhancing method including the steps of (a) identifying an active P2P network which is characterized with peers having a defined affinity interest in the exchange of at least category-A information, such as digital music song files, and (b) employing that at-least category-A information-exchange affinity interest as a carrier vehicle and growth engine for the promotion, within that network, of collateral income-generating transactions between a peer and a party who may be inside or outside the network. Of central importance to such commerce enhancement, or growth, as promoted by practice of the invention is that such growth is driven by network-internal, peer-group enthusiasm, linked with imaginative peer entrepreneurship in the engaging of peer-to-peer file-sharing behavior.
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