System and method for location based social networking
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1. A method for location-based social networking comprising:
- providing profiles for a plurality of users, including user specified information;
automatically determining behavioral information regarding activities conducted by a first user without requiring the first user to manually specify the behavioral information;
associating the behavioral information with the profile for the first user;
allowing a second user to specify criteria for matching;
determining information regarding a location of the first user;
matching the first user with the criteria based, at least in part, on the behavioral information regarding activities conducted by a first user and based, at least in part, on the information regarding the location of the first user; and
providing a notice to the second user.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for social networking. Location-related data and other behavioral and exogenously generated characteristics are used to replace or supplement self-generated profiles in order to enhance the quality and trustworthiness of the matches made using the system and facilitate the inputting of profile information.
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1. A method for location-based social networking comprising:
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providing profiles for a plurality of users, including user specified information;
automatically determining behavioral information regarding activities conducted by a first user without requiring the first user to manually specify the behavioral information;
associating the behavioral information with the profile for the first user;
allowing a second user to specify criteria for matching;
determining information regarding a location of the first user;
matching the first user with the criteria based, at least in part, on the behavioral information regarding activities conducted by a first user and based, at least in part, on the information regarding the location of the first user; and
providing a notice to the second user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for location-based social networking comprising:
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providing a profile for a first user, including a plurality of characteristics for the first user;
allowing a second user to specify criteria for matching;
determining information regarding the location of the first user;
matching the first user with the criteria based, at least in part, on the information regarding the location of the first user; and
providing a notice to the second user, including at least a portion of the profile for the first user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method for location-based social networking comprising:
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providing a profile for a first user, including an entry associating the first user with a first mobile device and an entry associating the first user with a third user;
providing a profile for a second user, including an entry associating the second user with a second mobile device and an entry associating the second user with the third user;
receiving location based information for the first mobile device and the second mobile device; and
matching the first user and the second user based, at least in part, on the location based information and the entries in the first user profile and the second user profile associated with the third user. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36)
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