发明名称 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROWDFUNDING AND CROWDSOURCING A PROJECT
摘要 A system and method for crowdfunding and crowdsourcing a project that receives, via communication circuitry, a project from a user, determines, using processing circuitry, whether the project adheres to a predetermined criteria, provides the project to a crowdsourcing community and a crowdfunding community, receives bids from one or more freelancers to implement one or more parts of the project, receives contributions from one or more contributors, selects at least one freelancer based on a predefined rule, determines a total amount of contributions, determines a total amount of funds needed, determines whether the total amount of contributions is at least equal to the total amount of funds needed, assigns the one or more parts of the project to the selected at least one freelancer, transmits an alert to at least on device associated with the selected at least one freelancer, and submits payments to the selected at least one freelancer.
申请公布号 US2016180282(A1) 申请公布日期 2016.06.23
申请号 US201514975203 申请日期 2015.12.18
申请人 UMM AL-QURA UNIVERSITY 发明人 BASALAMAH Anas;Basalamah Saleh;Elganainy Mostafa
分类号 G06Q10/06;G06Q30/02;G06Q50/00;G06Q20/10 主分类号 G06Q10/06
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A method for crowdsourcing and crowdfunding a project, the method comprising: receiving, via communication circuitry, a project from a user; determining, using processing circuitry, whether the project adheres to a predetermined criteria; providing, via the communication circuitry, the project to a crowdsourcing community and a crowdfunding community when the project adheres to the predetermined criteria; receiving, via the communication circuitry, bids from one or more freelancers associated with the crowdsourcing community to implement one or more parts of the project; receiving, via the communication circuitry, contributions from one or more contributors associated with the crowdfunding community; selecting, using the processing circuitry, at least one freelancer based on a predefined rule; determining, using the processing circuitry, a total amount of contributions based on the received contributions from the one or more contributors; determining, using the processing circuitry, a total amount of funds needed based on a bid of the selected at least one freelancer; determining, using the processing circuitry, whether the total amount of contributions is at least equal to the total amount of funds needed; assigning, using the processing circuitry, the one or more parts of the project to the selected at least one freelancer when the total amount of contributions is a least equal to the total amount of funds needed; transmitting, via the communication circuitry, an alert to at least one device associated with the selected at least one freelancer, wherein the alert causes a message to display on the selected at least one freelancer device; and submitting, via the communication circuitry, payments to the selected at least one freelancer when the one or more corresponding parts associated with the selected at least one freelancer is approved.
地址 Makkah SA