SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AFFINITY CAPTURE, USER FEEDBACK AND AFFINITY ANALYSIS

摘要

Provided in some embodiments is a social platform for soliciting qualified opinions and facilitating shopping, engaging shoppers, and delivering feedback. The social platform can communicate or integrate with existing sites to provide options for interacting with other qualified users. The platform can improve engagement, and increase social interaction. In some embodiments, affinity/feedback systems are provided that generate feedback for shoppers during their shopping experience. In addition to providing real-time feedback and opinions to shoppers, affinity and feedback systems can be configured to analyze and stored information on a complete purchasing experience. The complete purchasing experience can include, for example, initial identification of interest (e.g., establishing a purchase intent), specification of a product or service detail, actual identification and/or comparison of products/services, any interaction between shopping participants, conversations between participants, actual service/product purchase, and can also include after purchase conversation and/or review.

主权项

1. A system for providing an affinity and feedback platform, the system comprising:
at least one processor operatively connected to a memory, the processor when executing is configured to:
accept user definition of product characteristics;publish a help request for product selection including the product characteristics to a group of related users, responsive to definition of the product characteristics; andidentify, automatically, the group of related users based, at least in part, on at least one of on-line social connections accessible for the user and associations between existing user profiles and the product characteristics.