Internet dating system and method

• US 20060155566A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 07/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jacqueline Mary Berger
• Original Assignee: Jacqueline Mary Berger
• Inventors: Berger, Jacqueline Mary
• Application Number:
  US11/258,284
• Publication Number:
  US 20060155566A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

An Internet dating system and method that systematically documents and stores evaluations by participants of their dating experiences. Each evaluation is then sent, by, for example, email and or SMS, to the other participant in the date. Advantageously, the system processes each evaluation to determine a date rating and prompts the participants to take further action based on that rating.

Claims

1. A method of processing date information comprising the steps of

providing an on-line questionnaire to a first date participant, wherein the questionnaire comprises questions regarding a date between the first date participant and a second date participant;

receiving responses from the first date participant to the questionnaire; and

automatically sending date information regarding the first date participant'"'"'s responses to the questionnaire to the second date participant.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of

determining a date rating based on the responses;

and

wherein the step of sending information to the second date participant comprises sending the date rating.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the date rating is one of a positive rating and a negative rating.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of sending action prompts to the second date participant, wherein each action prompt is associated with corresponding actions that are automatically initiated if the action prompt is selected by the second date participant.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the actions initiated by the action prompts are associated with one or more of sending a gift to the first date participant, sending a message to the first date participant, and receiving suggestions for another date.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the actions initiated by the action prompts are associated with one or more of receiving information regarding dating skills and linking to a dating site.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of sending date information comprises one or more of emailing the information to the second date participant and transmitting a message to the second date participant to be received by a mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of

providing action prompts to the first date participant, wherein each action prompt is associated with corresponding actions that are automatically initiated if the action prompt is selected by the first date participant.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the actions initiated by the action prompts are associated with one or more of sending a gift to the second date participant, sending a message to the second date participant, and receiving suggestions for another date.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the actions initiated by the action prompts are associated with linking to a dating site.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein

the step of providing an on-line questionnaire comprises sending the questionnaire to a mobile device, and

the step of receiving responses comprises receiving the responses from the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of

providing the date information to interested third parties.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of

storing the responses to the questionnaire in a database entry associated with the second date participant.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising the step of

analyzing database entries associated with the second date participant, and

providing improvement information to the second date participant that is useful in addressing the second date participant'"'"'s dating deficiencies.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the improvement information comprises one or more of information relating to the second date participant'"'"'s profile and information relating to the second date participant'"'"'s picture.

16. A dating system comprising:

means for providing an automated, on-line questionnaire to a first date participant, wherein the questionnaire comprises questions regarding a date between the first date participant and a second date participant;

means for receiving responses from the first date participant to the questionnaire; and

means for automatically sending date information regarding the first date participant'"'"'s responses to the questionnaire to the second date participant.

17. A dating system comprising:

one or more Internet dating sites; and

a dating evaluation system capable of communicating with the one or more Internet dating sites;

wherein the dating evaluation system stores date evaluation information for one or more users of the one or more Internet dating sites.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the date evaluation information for a particular user that is a member of more than one Internet dating site is aggregated.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the one or more Internet dating sites contain a user selectable link to the dating evaluation system.

20. The system of claim 17 wherein features of the dating evaluation system are accessible in a frame displayed by at least one of the one or more Internet dating sites.