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Matching members with shared interests

  • US 20050055450A1
  • Filed: 11/10/2003
  • Published: 03/10/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of identifying one or more matching members for a match recipient, the method comprising:

  • maintaining a member profile for the match recipient, the member profile comprising at least one personal attribute;

    comparing the match recipient'"'"'s member profile to other member profiles to identify at least one matching member, wherein the matching member is a user whose member profile has at least one attribute matching an attribute of the match recipient'"'"'s member profile;

    causing contact information for the matching member to be displayed to the match recipient in a user interface for an online communication service; and

    causing the displayed contact information to be accompanied by an indication that the displayed contact information belongs to a matching member.

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