20140222548 | Inverse Referral Systems and Methods - A system for providing and measuring consumers' product referrals and recommendations about any given product or business, while allowing the consumers to acknowledge who or what influenced their purchase decision (i.e., an inverse referral). As a result the system verifies the purchases in a trending match and builds trend networks of consumers that bought products or services as a result of the referral. The system generates a trending score of the referral source as an indicator of the level of influence each user has in commerce, wherein the trending score measures personal influence in commerce in terms of resulting influenced purchases. The trending score may be used to distribute referral rewards throughout the system. | 08-07-2014 |