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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2012
Arvind Mishra, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Greg Steiner, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ashley Lewis, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Cormac Twomey, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joseph Essas, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ryan Barker, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Arvind Mishra, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Greg Steiner, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ashley Lewis, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Cormac Twomey, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joseph Essas, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ryan Barker, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Eharmony, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for operation of a matching service, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable online compatibility matching and ranking. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a matching system server coupled to a public network and accessible to one or more users. The matching system server includes a database that stores match profile data associated with the one more users, wherein the match profile data includes self-identified preferences. The matching server system is configured to correlate a first user's match profile data with one or more of the plurality of users' match profile data to identify a set of potential matches for the first user based on a relaxed set of self-identified preferences and calculate a compatibility value for each match in the set of potential matches.