Method and system for paying for bet responses

Abstract

We disclose a method for operating an online computer database system that enables users to pay make bet offers and respond to bet offers in a variety of ways. The method, implemented via the computer system, displays these bet offers, bet challenges, and the responses (or lack of responses) to those offers and challenges, thus providing new ways to force people to explicitly or implicitly express their opinions.

1 . a method for operating a computer database system, including input and output means, for the purpose of enabling a user called a sender to enter and display a pay-for-a-bet response (PFBR) offer directed at a target person, and enabling a target person to enter and display a response, said method comprise of the following steps: 
 a. enabling a sender to enter to enter and display a pay-for-a-bet response (PFBR) offer directed at a target person, said offer including at least: 
 the target's identity and, optionally,  
 the minimum amount the sender requires that the target risk in the bet offer,  
 whether the target must make a lock-in commitment,  
 the duration of the offer and  
 the sender's identity,  
   b. enabling users to find PFBR offers by searching under the target's name,    c. enabling a target of a PFBR offer to enter and display a response to an offer aimed at the target,    d. storing and displaying the target's response or lack of response along with the associated PFBR offer.