Patent attributes
A user inquiry funnel system and method that enables an individual to submit an inquiry that is analyzed and sent to a specific group of individuals involved in a relevant and specific industry to determine whether they can provide an answer. A specific user inquiry funneling mechanism is deployed that parses the inquiry into multiple individual words and maps them against tags and variants thereof to determine whether there is a matching between any ones of the tags and variants thereof with any ones of the individual words. Based on the mapping results, a listing of matching tags and variants is produced that facilitates the identifying of responding users that are associated with any ones of the matching tags and variants thereof and that have provided one or more pre-defined replies. This allows for establishing of a communication between the inquiring user and one or more responding users.
