System for matching individuals and facilitating interactions between users in a safety conscious environment

• US 10,223,642 B1
• Filed: 10/09/2016
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: John Felder
• Original Assignee: John Felder
• Inventors: Felder, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Sheree N
• Application Number:
  US15/289,195
• Time in Patent Office: 877 Days
• Field of Search: 706 46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

A method for matching individuals according to emotions evoked by music, includes the use of a plurality of personality matching questions to generate a response profile that is matched with a plurality of subsequent response profiles. A plurality of emotion-evoking audio files is provided for each of the plurality of personality matching questions, wherein a user account is prompted to select one of the plurality of emotion-evoking audio files as a response for each of the plurality of emotion-evoking audio files. The response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions is aggregated into the response profile along with a favorite song. A match probability rating is then calculated for the each of the plurality of subsequent response profiles in relation to the response profile of the user account. A plurality of subsequent user accounts is then displayed to the user account to engage in a virtual date.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, comprising the steps of:

creating, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of audio files, wherein said audio files are created by playing various instruments and sounds, which are recorded through a computing device;

attaching, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of emotional annotations to each of the plurality of created audio files;

calculating, by one or more computing devices, a consensus emotional annotation from the plurality of emotional annotations for each of the plurality of created audio files;

sending, by one or more computing devices, the plurality of created audio files to a plurality of focus group accounts to listen to said audio files;

selecting, by one or more computing devices, an emotional annotation retrieved from a dataset stored in an electronic database for each of the plurality of created audio files to represent an evoked emotion, experienced by the plurality of focus group accounts while listening to said audio file;

attaching, by one or more computing devices, a final consensus emotional annotation to each of the plurality of audio files;

selecting, by one or more computing devices, from a list of a plurality of music genres, and retrieving, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of personality matching questions wherein each of the plurality of personality matching questions includes a plurality of emotional annotated audio files as answer choices to said personality matching questions corresponding to the selected music genre;

prompting, by one or more computing devices, a user account to select one of the plurality of emotional annotated audio files as an answer to each of the plurality of personality matching questions;

retrieving, by one or more computing devices, a response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions from the user account;

aggregating, by one or more computing devices, the response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions into a response profile;

comparing, by one or more computing devices, the response profile to a plurality of subsequent response profiles, wherein each of the plurality of subsequent response profiles is associated with one of a plurality of subsequent user accounts;

calculating, by one or more computing devices, a match probability rating for each of the plurality of subsequent response profiles in relation to the response profile and storing said calculated match probability rating for each of the plurality of subsequent response profiles in relation to the response profile, in a database;

scheduling, by one or more computing devices, a virtual date between the user accounts;

selecting, by one or more computing devices, a scheduling tool wherein a user account invites another user account for a virtual date and selects a city and actual restaurant within said city, from a list of restaurant names and/or pictures listed, for the virtual date;

receiving, by one or more computing devices, an interior of the actual restaurant retrieved;

transmitting, by one or more computing devices, a live video stream including a 360 degree panoramic view of the interior of the selected restaurant and while communicating through the live video stream, by one or more computing devices, said user account accesses a menu extraction tool wherein the menu extraction tool retrieves a real-time menu for the selected restaurant.

2. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the step of:

receiving, by one or more computing devices, a music genre selection wherein the music genre is selected by the user account.

3. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the steps of:

prompting, by one or more computing devices, an arbitrary user account from the plurality of subsequent user accounts to select, by at least one computing device of the one or more computing devices, one of the plurality of emotional annotated audio files as a subsequent response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions;

receiving, by one or more computing devices, the subsequent response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions from the arbitrary user account; and

aggregating, by one or more computing devices, the subsequent response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions into a corresponding response profile, wherein the corresponding response profile is included as one of the plurality of subsequent response profiles.

4. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the steps of:

prompting, by one or more computing devices, the arbitrary user account to provide an answer to a bonus question;

receiving a favorite song as the answer to the bonus question; and

aggregating, by one or more computing devices the favorite song into the corresponding response profile.

5. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the steps of:

receiving, by one or more computing devices, match preferences from the user account; and

filtering, by one or more computing devices, the response profile for the plurality of subsequent user accounts according to the match preferences.

6. The method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked when listening to music, by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the step of:

ranking, by one or more computing devices, each of the plurality of subsequent user accounts according to the match probability rating of each of the plurality of subsequent response profiles.

7. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the steps of:

prompting, by one or more computing devices, the user account to answer a plurality of stored screening questions provided by a selected user account from the plurality of subsequent user accounts before the user account is able to communicate with the selected user account; and

permitting, by one or more computing devices, the user account to communicate with the selected user account if the user account correctly answers a predetermined number of the plurality of screening questions.

8. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the step of:

filtering, by one or more computing devices, the plurality of matched user accounts according to purchase behavior data obtained from a third party database.

9. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the step of:

communicably connecting, by one or more computing devices, the user account and a selected user account from the plurality of subsequent user accounts via a virtual chat room that is set within a 360 panoramic interior view of the actual restaurant chosen by the user as the backdrop of the live webcam stream between the user account and the selected user account.

10. The computer implemented method for matching individuals based on emotions evoked by listening to music, said method is executable by computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to cause one or more computing devices to perform a plurality of operations, wherein the method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises the steps of:

selecting, by one or more computing devices, a picture of a vehicle from a plurality of available vehicles;

displaying, by one or more computing devices, a live webcam stream for user account and the selected user account over a virtual image of the exterior or interior of the selected vehicle;

receiving, by one or more computing devices, from the user account, a gift request for a selected user account from the plurality of subsequent user accounts;

sending, by one or more computing devices, the gift request of the user account to a third party business account for the business to supply the requested gift to the selected user account from the plurality of subsequent user accounts;

retrieving, by one or more computing devices, an email or postal address for the selected user account to provide to the third party account of the business to supply the requested gift, without revealing such email address or postal address to the user account;

and sending, by one or more computing devices, the requested gift to the user account'"'"'s email address or postal address.