Friend-Assisted Match Recommendation for Weighted User Pairing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online-matching systems rely solely on daters to select matches, neglecting the influence of individuals in relationships who often facilitate dating for their single friends, leading to inefficiencies and increased processing and bandwidth requirements.
Innovation Solution
A matching tool that allows both singles and those in relationships to participate in the online-matching process, enabling friends to select profiles and provide recommendations on behalf of singles, with permissions and weights assigned to friends' inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional online-matching systems rely solely on daters to select matches, then the system maintains simplicity in user roles, but it increases processing and bandwidth requirements and neglects the influence of friends who facilitate dating
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces friends as intermediary participants in the matching process. Friends receive profile recommendations and can select matches on behalf of daters, acting as mediators who facilitate connections. This distributes the selection workload from individual daters to a network of friends, improving overall matching efficiency while reducing the processing burden on the central system through pre-filtering and recommendation generation.
2Productivity
If the system incorporates friends' selections and recommendations, then matching efficiency improves, but the system complexity increases due to multiple user roles and permissions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments user roles into distinct categories: daters who seek matches, friends who provide recommendations and selections, and administrators who manage the system. Each role has specific permissions and functionalities. This segmentation allows the system to handle complexity in a structured way, where each segment operates with defined rules, making the overall system more manageable despite the increased number of user types.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic role assignment where users can switch between being a dater and a friend, and permissions are adjusted based on current needs. The friend selection capability is activated only when beneficial, and the system adapts the level of friend involvement based on individual user preferences and match contexts. This dynamic approach allows flexibility while managing complexity.
3Loss of energy
If friends are allowed to select profiles on behalf of singles, then processing needs are reduced, but the reliability of match preferences may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where friends' selections are weighed against the dater's own preferences and behavior patterns. The system monitors match outcomes and uses this feedback to adjust the influence of friend selections over time. If friend recommendations consistently lead to successful matches, their weight increases; otherwise, the system adjusts to prioritize the dater's own preferences, maintaining reliability while benefiting from friend insights.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface sends and receives data over a network. The processor uses the interface to transmit a first series of profiles to a first user that includes recommended profiles for a second user. The processor uses the interface to receive a selection from the first user of a profile corresponding to a third user. The processor uses the interface to transmit a second series of profiles to the third user that includes recommended profiles for the third user. The processor uses the interface to receive a selection from the third user of a profile corresponding to the second user. In response to receiving the selection from the first user of the profile corresponding to the third user and the selection from the third user of the profile corresponding to the second user, the processor enables communication between the second and third users.