SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING ANNOTATED IMAGES TO FACILITATE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL USERS

摘要

A method and system matches social users and commercial users of an image annotation system, where annotated images are stored on a database. Image data records associated with the annotated images comprise judgment data corresponding to judgments made by social users regarding the images and social user identifiers for enabling a communication module to communicate with computing devices of respective social users who made the judgments. Commercial user records are also stored on the database, and contain information regarding commercial users for enabling the communication module to communicate with computing devices of respective commercial users. The commercial user records are searched based on a search criterion derived from an annotated image to determine a commercial user that satisfies the search criterion. Information regarding the commercial user may be communicated to social users associated with the annotated image, and information regarding these social users may be communicated to the commercial user.

主权项

1. A method for matching at least one social user of a plurality of social users with a commercial user of a plurality of commercial users of an image annotation system, the image annotation system comprising a processor, a data storage module, and a communication module for communicating with a plurality of computing devices operated by respective social users of the plurality of social users and respective commercial users of the plurality of commercial users, the method comprising:
storing a plurality of annotated images on the data storage module, wherein each annotated image of the plurality of annotated images comprises an image in linked association with an image data record such that the image is retrievable from being stored based on the image data record, and the image data record is retrievable from being stored based on the image, each image data record comprising
judgment data corresponding to at least one judgment made by at least one social user of the plurality of social users regarding the image, andat least one social user identifier comprising a distinct social user identifier for each of the at least one social user, wherein for each social user identifier the communication module is operable to communicate with a respective computing device of a corresponding social user based on the social user identifier; storing a plurality of commercial user records on the data storage module, wherein each commercial user record comprises
information regarding a commercial user of the plurality of commercial users, anda commercial user identifier, wherein the communication module is operable to communicate with a computing device of the commercial user based on the commercial user identifier; for at least one annotated image of the plurality of annotated images, deriving at least one commercial user search criterion based on the at least one annotated image; searching the plurality of commercial user records based on the at least one commercial user search criterion to determine the commercial user having a commercial user record satisfying a search criterion of the at least one commercial user search criterion.