US 12,113,871 B2
Online service platform (OSP) generating and transmitting on behalf of primary entity to third party proposal of the primary entity while maintaining the primary entity anonymous
Gregory T. Kavounas, Bellevue, WA (US); Herve Marzio, Seattle, WA (US); Tyler Flora, Houston, TX (US); Winona Dotson, Rocklin, CA (US); and William Rau, Mebane, NC (US)
Assigned to Avalara, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Avalara, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/236,622.
Application 18/236,622 is a continuation of application No. 17/870,548, filed on Jul. 21, 2022, granted, now 11,778,058.
Application 17/870,548 is a continuation of application No. 17/365,339, filed on Jul. 1, 2021, granted, now 11,431,812, issued on Aug. 30, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/047,860, filed on Jul. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0403337 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/53 (2022.01); H04L 67/562 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/53 (2022.05) [H04L 67/562 (2022.05)] 74 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method including operations in which the operations include:
receiving relationship instance data of a primary entity relating to previous relationship instances of the primary entity with secondary entities;
identifying a domain of at least one of the secondary entities from the received data;
assembling, by automatically, at least some of previously stored proposal components, in which:
the assembled proposal components are part of a proposed set, and at least one of the proposal components of the proposed set is thus assembled by looking up previously stored proposal components for the domain;
acting to enable specific ones of the assembled proposal components to be viewable by a third party, the specific proposal components not including an identity of the primary entity;
causing a proposal notification to be transmitted to a computer of an agency of the domain, the proposal notification indicating how the enabled specific proposal components may be viewed by a user of a computer of the agency, the proposal notification further requesting an affirmation input from a computer of the agency, in which at least one of the assembling, the acting to enable and the causing the proposal notification to be transmitted is performed responsive to determining that an alignment condition is not met;
receiving an affirmation input from a computer of the agency in response to the transmitted proposal notification; and
effectuating one or more follow-up notifications.