Platform for arranging services between goods manufacturers and content or service providers and users of virtual local community via authorized agents

摘要

A social networking platform having users grouped into multiple groups of residents based on users' geographical areas, each group representing a virtual local community representing the corresponding geographical area. Each resident is identified by a resident identifier having a common local community identifier that uniquely identifies the corresponding geographical area in which the residents actually reside. Each resident is provided a three-dimensional (3D) homepage having items resembling items owned by the resident in an actual resident home. Some of the items decorated in the 3D homepage can be activate to invoke an authorized agent which will access a goods/service provider on behalf of the resident for purchasing further items. An authorized agent can be installed and available to a virtual community only if the residents allow. Based on the purchase, a resident is rewarded with credits for future purchases and ownership shares of the authorized agent.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
partitioning a plurality of users registered with a social networking platform over the Internet into a plurality of groups of residents based on actual geographical areas in which the users currently reside, each group of residents is associated with a particular geographical area representing a virtual local community, wherein each of the residents in each virtual local community is identified by a resident identifier (ID) which includes a common local community identifier that uniquely identifies the respective geographical area associated with the respective virtual local community; creating a three-dimensional (3D) homepage for each of the residents in each of the virtual local communities, the 3D homepage representing an actual resident home associated with each resident who actually resides in the associated geographical area, the 3D homepage including a plurality of items decorated with the 3D homepage, wherein the items represent 3D models created using a technology for creating 3D images based on photos of real objects, goods or services owned or incurred by the resident in its respective actual resident home that were purchased or acquired from a plurality of goods and service (goods/service) providers; associating an authorized agent with at least some of the items decorated in each of the 3D homepages of each virtual local community, an authorized agent being installed and associated with a particular virtual local community at the social networking platform only if a majority of the residents of that particular virtual local community authorizes the authorized agent, wherein each authorized agent is associated with a particular virtual local community and the authorized agent is identified by an authorized agent identifier having a common local community identifier that is associated with that virtual local community, and wherein an authorized agent is linked with a particular goods/service provider over the Internet that provides goods/service to an decorated item in a 3D homepage, wherein the authorized agent is to collectively on behalf of residents of the associated virtual local community to contact the associated goods/service provider for purchasing goods/services associated with the decorated item in the 3D homepage; storing in one or more databases information concerning decorated items in each 3D homepage of each resident in each virtual local community, wherein the information is anonymous information without exposing identities of the residents; providing a search interface to allow a user to search in the one or more databases to determine purchasing patterns or habits of residents of a particular virtual local community; receiving a request from a third-party entity to deploy a first agent in a first virtual local community; obtaining detailed information from the third-party entity concerning the first agent; transmitting the detailed information to each resident of the first virtual local community for approval; receiving an approval from at least one of the residents of the first virtual local community, wherein a number of the residents approving the first agent is greater than a predetermined threshold; authorizing the first agent as a first authorized agent and installing the first authorized agent in a homepage of each of the residents approving the first agent; and assigning at least one share of ownership shares of the first authorized agent to each of the residents that have approved the first authorized agent, wherein each of the residents in the first virtual local community that approved the first authorized agent is a co-owner of the first authorized agent.