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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Arvind Mishra, Encino, CA (US);

Jonathan Eppers, West Hollywood, CA (US);

Gregory Steiner, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Joseph Essas, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arvind Mishra, Encino, CA (US);

Jonathan Eppers, West Hollywood, CA (US);

Gregory Steiner, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Joseph Essas, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

eHarmony, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments, social matching includes determining one or more friends of a subscriber, in which the one or more friends of the subscriber are associated with the subscriber based on a social graph; notifying (e.g., pinging) a selected set of the one or more friends of the subscriber for input regarding selected matches for the subscriber, in which matches for the subscriber are generated by a matching engine performed by a processor; and displaying the input received from the selected set of the one or more friends of the subscriber.


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