ONLINE DATING DANGER PREVENTION SYSTEM

• US 20140365528A1
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Marcellin Simard
• Original Assignee: Marcellin Simard
• Inventors: SIMARD, MARCELLIN
• Application Number:
  US14/302,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365528A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

An online dating danger prevention system is disclosed. The online dating danger prevention system includes a database that holds information, including geo-location data and photographs, to make online dating safer. An online dater enters a set of contacts that the system can reach in the event of an emergency.

Claims

1. An online dating danger prevention system that is used to facilitate a safe dating environment between online daters meeting for a date at a real-world location, said online dating danger prevention system comprising:

a secure server computer that is connected to a network and runs a web server software application to host a site accessible to a first person going on a date with a second person, wherein said site allows (i) the first person, before the date, to provide a set of contacts to reach in the event of an emergency in connection with the date and (ii) the first person to provide a photograph during the date at the real-world location with the second person;

a database management system comprising the database and a database management application connected to the web server and interfaced by a secure process running on a processing unit of the secure web server computer, wherein said database management system stores the set of contacts and the photograph in the database when the secure process receives the set of contacts and the photograph from the secure server; and

a mobile computing device that is connected to the network and runs a software application that allows the first person to access services provided by the web server software application.

2. The online dating danger prevention system of claim 1, wherein the web server software application comprises an online dating danger prevention service which the mobile computing device of the first person accesses.

3. The online dating danger prevention system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device of the first person comprises an image capture device.

4. The online dating danger prevention system of claim 3, wherein said photograph is an image captured by the image capture device of the first person'"'"'s mobile computing device.

5. The digital multimedia data storage system of claim 4, wherein the mobile computing device comprises a GPS transceiver for sending location requests to one or more GPS satellites and receiving location data from the one or more GPS satellites.

6. The online dating danger prevention system of claim 5, wherein the received location data is added to an embedded meta-data storage location of the captured image.

7. The online dating danger prevention system of claim 6, wherein time stamp data is added to a second embedded meta-data storage location of the captured image based on a time during which the image was captured.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit of a computing device prevents or reduces online dating danger, said program comprising sets of instructions for:

receiving a set of contacts associated with a first online dating person;

storing the set of contacts in a database;

receiving a fail-safe timed duration after which an alert is transmitted to the set of contacts if the first online dating person has not checked-in during the fail-safe timed duration;

storing the fail-safe timed duration in the database;

receiving an image of the first online dating person and a second online dating person captured at a real-world location by an image capture device that includes a set of meta-data along with the image, said set of meta-data comprising time stamp data that corresponds to a time the image was captured and location data that corresponds to the real-world location;

storing the received image, the time stamp data, and the location data in the database;

organizing the database so that the stored set of contacts, the stored image, and stored time stamp data, and the stored location data are grouped in a persistent data structure associated with the first online dating person; and

linking a set of known information about the second online dating person to the persistent data structure associated with the first online dating person, said second online dating person dating the first online dating person at the real-world location.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for receiving a check-in from the first online dating person during the fail-safe timed duration.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said received check-in from the first online dating person during the fail-safe timed duration resets the check-in time of the fail-safe timed duration.