System and method for searching, finding and contacting dates on the internet in instant messaging networks and/or in other methods that enable immediate finding and creating immediate contact
First Claim
1. A System for searching, finding and contacting dates on the Internet in instant messaging networks, comprised of at least the following elements:
- a. A Client program, located on the User'"'"'s computer;
b. At least one Server, located on the Internet;
c. At least one module for filling and/or making changes to a computer dating compatibility questionnaire;
d. A search module for finding potential dates which can check also if they are currently Online;
e. At least one of;
An ability to search also for dates who are not currently Online, and The ability to search for dates based on reciprocal compatibility;
f. An instant messaging element which knows if the user is still On-line, and also enables instant exchange of messages between users.
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Abstract
When searching for new people, the current instant messaging networks typically allow users to search mainly by name or by e-mail and some of them also by interests, although one of them (Odigo) allows to search also by sex, age, area, languages, occupation & interests. However, to the best of the inventor'"'"'s knowledge there is no way to systematically search in these networks for compatible dates by attributes such as for example education, general background, appearance, attitudes, and personality, or by reciprocal compatibility in any of the above mentioned attributes. This is a waste of a huge potential since some of these networks already have more than dozens of millions of people. Also, Odigo allows searching only among people currently connected, which means that highly compatible dates can be missed just because they don'"'"'t happen to be connected at exactly the time of the search. The present invention is a novel concept which applies computer dating to the context of instant messaging, in a systematic and flexible way that to the best of the inventor'"'"'s knowledge has never been done before. This system and method enable the user to search and find instantly compatible dates in instant messaging networks on the basis of attribute search or 1-way compatibility search or 2-way compatibility search instead of being limited to search only by the limited options described above, and to search either for potential dates that are currently Online or Offline, and also take advantage of many additional features, and especially features that are based on improved integration between computer dating and instant messaging.
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87 Claims
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1. A System for searching, finding and contacting dates on the Internet in instant messaging networks, comprised of at least the following elements:
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a. A Client program, located on the User'"'"'s computer;
b. At least one Server, located on the Internet;
c. At least one module for filling and/or making changes to a computer dating compatibility questionnaire;
d. A search module for finding potential dates which can check also if they are currently Online;
e. At least one of;
An ability to search also for dates who are not currently Online, and The ability to search for dates based on reciprocal compatibility;
f. An instant messaging element which knows if the user is still On-line, and also enables instant exchange of messages between users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
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9. A method for searching, finding and contacting dates on the Internet in instant messaging networks, comprised of at least the following steps:
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a. Providing a Client program, located on the User'"'"'s computer;
b. Providing at least one Server, located on the Internet;
c. Providing at least one module for filling and making changes to a computer dating compatibility questionnaire;
d. Providing a search module for finding potential dates which can check also if they are currently Online;
e. Providing at least one of;
An ability to search also for dates who are not currently Online, and The ability to search for dates based on reciprocal compatibility;
f. Providing an instant messaging element which knows if the user is still On-line, and also enables instant exchange of messages between users. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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54. An Online computer dating system wherein the system uses at least one of the following methods to try to automatically catch suspect duplicate records:
- [a. Check if the e-mail starts with at least a very similar name on the left side of the “
@”
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b. Check if the user name is at least very similar. C. Check if the birth date is at least very similar;
]. - View Dependent Claims (55)
- [a. Check if the e-mail starts with at least a very similar name on the left side of the “
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56. In an Online dating system a method wherein users can be notified automatically as soon as someone new fitting a certain criterion has at least one of:
- sent his/her data to the system and sent his/her data to the system and is currently Online.
- View Dependent Claims (57)
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58. In an Online computer Dating service, a method wherein a systematic data pool of pictures of males and of females is used so that each user can at least one of:
- [mark at least 1 picture that is most similar to himself/herself, and mark the pictures of the opposite sex that he/she most likes], and the pictures are at least one of;
photographs and systematically drawn images. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62)
- [mark at least 1 picture that is most similar to himself/herself, and mark the pictures of the opposite sex that he/she most likes], and the pictures are at least one of;
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70. In an Online computer dating system, a method wherein the data from the compatibility questionnaires filled by the users can be used also to create “
- group compatibility”
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which means creating a group of compatible people. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73)
- group compatibility”
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