WO2003077164A1 - Envoi anonyme de cadeau - Google Patents

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WO2003077164A1
WO2003077164A1 PCT/AU2003/000233 AU0300233W WO03077164A1 WO 2003077164 A1 WO2003077164 A1 WO 2003077164A1 AU 0300233 W AU0300233 W AU 0300233W WO 03077164 A1 WO03077164 A1 WO 03077164A1
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Stephen Mulcahy
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Rsvp Personals International Limited
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    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G06Q30/02—Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

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  • the invention pertains to methods of doing business and more particularly to a method for enabling a gift to be sent anonymously, particularly between members of an introduction, dating or social club or any sort.
  • the invention also includes the hardware and software to carry out the methods in an Internet environment.
  • dating services On-line, Internet based dating and introduction services (herein “dating services” or “services”) are popular and growing in popularity. Members of such dating services are able to exchange information with other members in a number of ways. In many instances the identities of the members are protected to provide anonymity and therefore privacy and security until such time as the corresponding members elect to reveal their identities to each other. Until such time as an identity is revealed a member uses an alias, user name or nickname. Such an on-line service (or its financial beneficiaries) may wish to raise revenue and provide services to members by enabling or mediating the giving of gifts between members.
  • a donor member of a service being a potential sender selects a gift offered by the service through for example a www site for purchase.
  • the donor provides payment authority or allows an authorisation number to be obtained from the payment provider.
  • the donor does not provide actual payment.
  • the dating service then notifies the recipient member of the nature of the gift and the alias of the donor member.
  • the notice invites the recipient to accept or decline the gift.
  • the actual purchase by the donor is not made final unless the service receives notification from the recipient of acceptance and a valid delivery address.
  • the postal address of the recipient is never provided to the donor. If no response or a negative response is made by the recipient, the donor is informed. If the service receives an acceptance from the recipient, the donor is advised, the purchase is made in accordance with the authority and delivery of the gift is made or attempted.
  • the gift is depicted in a www page controlled by the service and payment authority includes the credit card or other payment method details of the donor, which authority and details are provided through a www interface.
  • the notice to the recipient is made by email and or a www page and the acceptance or decline by the recipient is made by email and or a www page.
  • Advice of purchase or decline to the donor is also made by email and or a www page.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a sample gift selection www page.
  • Figure 2 is a flow chart illustrating steps pertaining to the methods of the present invention.
  • the term "document” is intended to be interpreted broadly as a www page or SMS or GPRS message other networked distribution of a resource which may be viewed or otherwise accessed by a user.
  • the term recipient will be understood as applying to a potential recipient.
  • Database records or entries refer broadly to information contained in an electronic database. It will be understood that the delivery of information by email includes web based email, other personalised or password access web based messaging and for example, text or mark-up language messaging over telephone and wireless networks.
  • social and introduction services including social groups or clubs
  • Such services allow members (for example) to search for compatible members, exchange information such as messages, email or live chat data, send or view photos and obtain information about events associated with or sponsored by the service.
  • member's first contact with one another is anonymous. Members will continue to interact anonymously until one or both members agree otherwise.
  • a service or social group or the owners or operators or financial beneficiaries may wish to enhance services to members and raise revenues by facilitating gift giving between members.
  • Gifts may be offered and sold directly by the service or through an intermediary, strategic partner or other distributor of gift items.
  • the gift items are displayed for sale on a www page controlled by the service.
  • This same page or pages contain the means to allow a donor member to purchase the gifts, from whatever source, conditional upon acceptance by a recipient member.
  • the donor may access 21 one or more www pages 10 ( Figure 1) depicting images 11 or descriptions 1 la of sendable gifts. Gifts may be organised into categories 12. Access to these www pages is by one of two methods 22. Members have profile pages which are accessible on line.
  • a profile page is a web page which contains information about a member. These buttons will preferably appear on all member profile pages. Clickthrough from here leads to the 'Choose a gift' page 10, 24 will populate the 'recipient' field 13 on that page with a drop-down box 14 containing the names of all the sender's favourites or potential recipients. Selection may be made from an interactive selection tick box 15. Price, optionally inclusive of delivery cost maybe displayed 16 adjacent to each gift image 11.
  • the anonymous gifting service may, in some embodiments, be limited to recipient users having location profiles within certain geographic areas.
  • the 'send a gift' button will appear only on pre-selected user profile pages, given a particular donor, following decision based on business rules regarding geographic service areas by the dating and others such as gift partners, vendors, delivery service providers etc.
  • the donor supplies an authority to the service together with e.g. credit card details 25 (which are provided to a participating bank) or, for example, details from which an account owned by the donor can be debited. This may be an account held by the donor with the dating service or a bank or any other payment provider.
  • donor information is captured by the operator's database 23.
  • the donor also identifies to the service the alias or nickname of the recipient.
  • the information thus provided to the operator's database is sufficient to complete the purchase transaction. However the actual purchase is not made until certain conditions are met. For example, if the transaction is declined by the bank 26, the failed transaction and reasons are entered into the dating service's computer system or its database 27. The donor is notified, by email or on screen 28 of the failure 28.
  • the service On receipt of the donor's authority and payment details, the service (having logged the transaction 30 and received an authorisation number or approval from the bank or payment provider 29 initiates a notice message, preferably an email message to the intended recipient member 31.
  • the alias but not the true identity of the donor is revealed.
  • the nature or exact type of gift may also be revealed in the notice.
  • the notice also invites the recipient to accept 32 or decline 33 and to provide a postal delivery address. The address is not provided to the donor and the recipient is informed of this. Accepting or declining may be done by reply email or through a www interface 34 where an image of the gift maybe viewed.
  • the email notice 35 (generated automatically from database entries, by software) to the donor may read as follows.
  • the use ⁇ > style brackets indicates a database field name whose descriptive name appears in the brackets. Hello ⁇ Sender Name>
  • the intended recipient will receive an automatically generated invitation to accept as for example, an email message 31 of the following type.
  • an email message 31 of the following type.
  • embedded links for example to donor information and preference indication.
  • ⁇ SenderName> would like to send you a gift through RSVP 's anonymous gift delivery service. If you do not know ⁇ SenderName>, you can check out his / her profile ⁇ here>. If you want to receive this gift, please ⁇ click here to accept the giff>. If you don 't want to receive this gift, please ⁇ click here to refuse acceptance of this gifi>-
  • the recipient is directed to a www page 34 containing a form, such a secure form.
  • the information from the form is compared to the dating system's record or database records 55. If the acceptance is the recipient's first, the delivery address details are recorded in the service's databases. The delivery address or other details maybe compared to other member records or user profile records for the purpose of detecting illegitimate or objectionable conduct by a recipient. Illegitimate or objectionable conduct by a recipient includes the use of multiple profiles having a common address and the population of profiles with false information.
  • the recipient supplied delivery address is compared to the delivery address stored by the service to the user's data and other member information in storage. Manual intervention 56 may be required if there is a lack of correspondence with the user's profile or stored details or if nefarious activity is suspected or detected.
  • Matching the recipient's reply from the form, with the stored user information may involve updating the recipient's profile if required 57 for example, to update legitimate changes to a user's data. Manual intervention may require an operator's customer service officer to contact either or both parties to the intended transaction without revealing the true identity of the other party. Success at this stage may result in an email notice 58 to the donor that delivery is being attempted.
  • the form 34 filled in by the intended recipient is of the following type:
  • the purchase and debit are made 45 in accordance with the authority provided by the donor and delivery is attempted in accordance with the address provided by the recipient. It is understood that the conditional purchase, notice and invitation to recipient, acceptance or declining and delivery of goods may be handled by a separate fulfilment company associated with, owned by or under contract to the service to which the members belong.
  • the donor receives an email message of the following type: Hello ⁇ SenderName>
  • the donor receives an email of the following type:
  • Orders may be processed by sending an email 47 (or electronic file of standard format) to the relevant gift provider 48, of the following type:
  • the delivery entity may, upon successful delivery 51 input the following delivery information to the dating service system 60, either via a secure webpage on the www site or via electronic file upload 50.
  • the dating service database is updated and the gift recipient maybe credited 65 in a manner which permits the donor to be suitably acknowledged by the recipient.
  • An email message noting successful delivery 66 is sent to the donor.
  • the successful delivery notice to the dating service via a secure webpage on the www site or via electronic file upload 50 may be in the following form:
  • Deliver failure causes an updating 61 to the database records of the dating service.
  • the donor is notified by email 63.
  • the dating service computer system should generate reports to alert a customer services officer if any particular member has received, for example, more than 4 gifts in a month. This is to prevent fraudsters from putting fake photos of themselves on the www site and inviting other members to send them gifts. Also the system should be able to recall a record of any delivery in the event that there is a dispute between members or involving a provider of gifts or delivery services.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne des procédés, appareils et logiciels permettant de faciliter une transaction anonyme d'envoi de cadeau entre un donneur et un destinataire. Dans les modes de réalisation préférés, le donneur et le destinataire sont des membres du même service de messagerie conviviale ou service de lancement et le cadeau est sélectionné en direct. Le donneur et le destinataire restent anonymes l'un vis-à-vis de l'autre en ce qui concerne les surnoms qu'ils se sont déjà choisi. L'achat du cadeau dépend au moins d'un facteur tel que l'adresse de livraison valide, l'acceptation par le destinataire, les facteurs indiquant une fraude ou les facteurs géographiques qui peuvent affecter la livraison.
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