Method for arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions among intermediary and authoring users only when an interaction occurs between authoring and candidate users who was exposed by the intermediary user to data published by authoring user

Abstract

System and computer-implemented method of permitting or arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions to occur among an intermediary and an author in an electronic data system only when an interaction occurs between the author and a candidate who was exposed by the intermediary to data published by the author. The author publishes criteria about a candidate, and the candidate posts information about the candidate, which is ingested and married to personally identifiable information about the candidate. A score is calculated indicating a correlation between the candidate and the published criteria, and an intermediary exposes the candidate to the criteria, which is tracked. When the candidate completes an interaction with the author, an encrypted transaction is permitted to occur between the author and the candidate through a proxy, without the author knowing the identity of the intermediary who facilitated the introduction.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions among an intermediary user and an authoring user of an electronic data system only when an interaction occurs between the authoring user and a candidate user who was exposed by the intermediary user to data published by the authoring user, the method comprising the steps of:
 receiving at a computer server system a plurality of published electronic data records over a computer network created and published by a plurality of authoring users, at least some of the published electronic data records including a set of required criteria and a set of desired criteria both established by corresponding ones of at least some of the authoring users;   receiving, over the computer network or another network, a plurality of candidate electronic data records ingested from an electronic web crawler component and including personally identifiable information posted by third parties;   automatically calculating, for each of the candidate users by the computer server system, a relevancy score indicative of a correlation between (a) at least some of the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record posted by the respective candidate user and (b) weighted ones of the corresponding sets of required and desired criteria;   tracking by the computer server system a first of the intermediary users that exposed a first of the candidate users to information associated with the first electronic data by storing an association in an electronic memory device between the first intermediary user and the first candidate user;   receiving, at the computer system, an indication from a first of the authoring users of an occurrence of an interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user who was exposed by the first intermediary user to the information associated with the first electronic data; and   responsive to receiving the indication of the occurrence of the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user, the computer system permitting an encrypted electronic transaction to occur among the first authoring user and the first intermediary user directly or using the computer system as a proxy for the encrypted electronic transaction.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising, responsive to receiving the indication of the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user, the computer system permitting another encrypted electronic transaction to occur among the first authoring user and the first candidate user using the computer system as a proxy for the encrypted electronic transaction. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising, responsive to receiving the indication of the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user, the computer system and the first authoring user completing an encrypted electronic transaction directly between one another. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the indication of the interaction includes an indication from the authoring user that the candidate user satisfies at least some of the criteria set forth in the required criteria or the desired criteria or both. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, at the computer system, a modification to the set of the required criteria and the set of the desired criteria from the first authoring user; and   automatically recalculating, for each of the candidate users by the computer server system, a new relevancy score indicative of a correlation between (a) at least some of the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record posted by the respective candidate and (b) weighted ones of the modified sets of required and desired criteria.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein each of the required criterion in the set of required criteria has a higher assigned weight than corresponding ones of each of the desired criterion in the set of desired criteria, such that a higher relevancy score indicates a higher correlation between the set of required criteria and the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein respective weights assigned to at least some of the required criteria in the set of required criteria are determined by and received from the first authoring user. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the automatically calculating the relevancy score includes receiving from an electronic entity recognition component a numeric value indicating an extent of a relevancy match between (a) the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record and (b) a corresponding one of the set of required criteria or the set of desired criteria. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , further comprising automatically calculating, for each of the set of required criteria and the set of desired criteria, a sub-score based on the corresponding relevancy match and a corresponding weighted value assigned by the first authoring user for the corresponding criteria. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein at least some of the published electronic data records further include a set of mandatory criteria, the set of mandatory criteria including a geographic location. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the automatically calculating the relevancy score includes determining whether a geographic location extracted from the information associated with the respective candidate electronic data record is within the geographic location in the set of mandatory criteria, and if so, assigning a maximum sub-score to the geographic location criterion of the set of mandatory criteria, but if not, assigning a minimum sub-score to the geographic location criterion of the set of mandatory criteria, without applying any weighting to the geographic location criterion of the set of mandatory criteria. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user involves the information associated with the first electronic data at the geographic location set forth in the set of mandatory criteria. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the tracking includes tagging the first intermediary user and the first candidate user and storing an association between the first intermediary user and the first candidate user in the electronic memory device. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user involves the information associated with the first electronic data. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user is an interaction in the physical world between an authoring person corresponding to the first authoring user and a candidate person corresponding to the candidate user. 
     
     
         16 . A computer system of arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions among an intermediary user and an authoring user of an electronic data system only when an interaction occurs between the authoring user and a candidate user who was exposed by the intermediary user to data published by the authoring user, the system comprising:
 one or more communication interfaces configured to receive, over one or more computer networks, (a) a plurality of published electronic data records created and published by a plurality of authoring users, at least some of the published electronic data records including a set of required criteria and a set of desired criteria both established by corresponding ones of at least some of the authoring users, and (b) a plurality of candidate electronic data records ingested from an electronic web crawler component and including personally identifiable information posted by third parties;   a score calculation component configured to automatically calculate, for each of the candidate users by the computer server system, a relevancy score indicative of a correlation between (a) at least some of the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record posted by the respective candidate user and (b) weighted ones of the corresponding sets of required and desired criteria;   an intermediary tracking component configured to:
 track a first of the intermediary users that exposed a first of the candidate users to information associated with the first electronic data by storing an association in an electronic memory device between the first intermediary user and the first candidate user, and 
 receive an indication from a first of the authoring users of an occurrence of an interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user who was exposed by the first intermediary user to the information associated with the first electronic data; and 
   a proxy transaction component configured to, responsive to receiving the indication of the occurrence of the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user, permit an encrypted electronic transaction to occur among the first authoring user and the first intermediary user using the proxy tansaction component as a proxy for the encrypted electronic transaction.   
     
     
         17 . The computer system of  claim 16 , wherein the one or more communication interfaces, the score calculation component, the intermediary tracking component, and the proxy transaction component are incorporated in a computer server. 
     
     
         18 . The system method of  claim 16 , further comprising, responsive to receiving the indication of the interaction between the first authoring user and the first candidate user, the proxy transaction component being further configured to permit another encrypted electronic transaction to occur among the first authoring user and the first candidate user directly or using the proxy transaction component as a proxy for the encrypted electronic transaction. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 16 , further comprising:
 the one or more communication interfaces being configured to receive a modification to the set of the required criteria and the set of the desired criteria from the first authoring user; and   the score calculation component being configured to automatically recalculate, for each of the candidate users by the computer server system, a new relevancy score indicative of a correlation between (a) at least some of the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record posted by the respective candidate and (b) weighted ones of the modified sets of required and desired criteria.   
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 16 , further comprising an electronic entity recognition component configured to (a) determine a numeric value indicating an extent of a relevancy match between (a) the information extracted from the respective candidate electronic data record and (b) a corresponding one of the set of required criteria or the set of desired criteria, and (b) communicate the numeric value to the score calculation component for calculating the relevancy score.