MATCHING INTERESTS OF USERS

• US 20150310101A1
• Filed: 04/23/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oz Labs Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Oz Labs Ltd.
• Inventors: Oz, Ran
• Application Number:
  US14/259,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20150310101A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method for matching between interests of different users, the method may include obtaining, by a computerized service and from a group of users, users metadata that comprises users interest information and users contact information; wherein the obtaining of the users metadata involves an interaction between each user of the group of users and the computerized service; finding, in response to the users metadata, a sub-group of users that have a matching interest and are contacted to an intermediate person; wherein the finding of the sub-group of users is executed without receiving an input from the intermediate person; and responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users.

Claims

1. A method for matching between interests of different users, the method comprises:

obtaining, by a computerized service and from a group of users, users metadata that comprises users interest information and users contact information;

wherein the obtaining of the users metadata involves an interaction between each user of the group of users and the computerized service;

finding, in response to the users metadata, a sub-group of users that have a matching interest and are contacted to an intermediate person;

wherein the finding of the sub-group of users is executed without receiving an input from the intermediate person; and

responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the intermediate person is not registered to the computerized service.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the intermediate person does not belong to the group of users.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users does not involve any interaction with the intermediate person.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the obtaining of the users metadata comprises providing to the computerized service and by each user of the group of users at least a portion of a user metadata associated with the user.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users comprises sending to the sub-group of users a matching indication.

7. The method according to claim 1 further comprising preventing from sending the intermediate person the matching indication.

8. The method according to claim 1 further comprising sending the intermediate person the matching indication.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the processing of the user metadata comprises correlating between user contact information of different formats.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein the processing of the user metadata comprises generating user profiles of users listed in the users contact information;

wherein a generation of a user profile comprises accumulating user contact information from different formats of user contact information.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein the processing of the user metadata comprises generating user profiles of users listed in the users contact information;

wherein a generation of a user profile comprises fetching user contact information that is not included in the users contact information.

12. The method according to claim 1 wherein the obtaining of the users contact information comprising retrieving users contact information from social networks and electronic mail services of the users.

13. The method according to claim 1 wherein the obtaining of the users metadata comprises displaying to the users forms and receiving from the users inputs to the forms.

14. The method according to claim 13 further comprising generating the forms.

15. The method according to claim 13 further comprising receiving the forms.

16. The method according to claim 1 further comprising retrieving intermediate person metadata;

and finding the sub-group of users only if the person is relevant to the matching interest.

17. A method for matching between interests of different users, the method comprises:

obtaining, by a computerized system and from a group of users that are registered to a computerized service, users metadata that comprises users interest information and users contact information;

finding, in response to the users metadata, a sub-group of users that have a matching interest and are contacted to an intermediate person that is not registered to the computerized service; and

responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users

18. A method for matching between interests of different users, the method comprises:

obtaining, by a computerized system and from a group of users that are registered to a computerized service, users metadata that comprises users interest information and users contact information;

finding, in response to the users metadata, a sub-group of users that have a matching interest and are contacted to an intermediate person that is not registered to the computerized service and is relevant to the matching interest; and

responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that once executed by a computer cause the computer to execute the stages of:

obtaining, by a computerized system and from a group of users that are registered to a computerized service, users metadata that comprises users interest information and users contact information;

processing the users metadata to find a sub-groups of users that have a matching interest and are contacted to an intermediate person that is not registered to the computerized service; and

responding to the finding of the sub-groups of users.