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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2013
Match.com, L.l.c, Dallas, TX (US);
Tom R. Quisel, New York, NY (US);
Sam D. Yagan, Chicago, IL (US);
MATCH.COM, L.L.C., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes establishing a pool of potential matches for a user in a computer-implemented matching system, in which each of the potential matches meet at least one criteria of the user; determining a messaging score for each of the potential matches of the pool, the messaging score indicating a messaging aptitude of the potential match; and ranking the potential matches, where each of the potential matches is ranked based on a similarity of the messaging score of the potential match to a messaging score of the user. In one embodiment, the method may further include presenting to the user results of the ranking.