Friend Matching System with False Targets to Mask Appearance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing internet software platforms for making friends are biased towards appearance, leading to unfair information exchange and potential rejection based on looks, as users often select based on appearance and lack a genuine two-way communication mechanism.
Innovation Solution
A method for two-way information exchange that pairs clients with a primary target and multiple false targets, allowing communication to reach a time threshold before granting delete privileges, thereby reducing appearance-based selection and increasing communication depth and fairness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users are allowed to immediately see and select target clients based on appearance, then the ease of operation is improved, but the fairness of information exchange deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the target client display into multiple categories: a primary target client and multiple false target clients. This segmentation prevents immediate appearance-based selection by hiding the true identity of the primary target among the false targets, thereby maintaining fairness while still allowing users to interact with potential matches.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces false target clients as intermediaries that mimic the appearance of real target clients. These false targets act as mediators between the requesting client and the actual primary target, preventing direct appearance-based judgment while still enabling communication to proceed through the intermediary layer.
2Ease of operation
If a simple screening mechanism is implemented, then the ease of operation is improved, but the depth of two-way communication deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary actions by requiring clients to communicate with the primary target for a threshold period before granting access to see the target's real appearance or allowing deletion of false targets. This preliminary communication phase ensures sufficient depth of interaction is achieved before allowing full information exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent maintains continuity of useful action by keeping false target clients visible and communicable throughout the interaction process. Clients can continuously communicate with the primary target (through the false target intermediary) until the threshold time is reached, ensuring uninterrupted and sustained communication rather than a one-time screening.
3Reliability
If multiple false target clients are displayed alongside the primary target, then the fairness of information exchange is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by creating false target clients that replicate the appearance and basic profile characteristics of real target clients. These copies are generated by the server based on the primary target's information, allowing the system to maintain fairness through multiple display options without requiring complex verification mechanisms for each individual client.
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AI summary
A method of two-way information exchange for a system for making friends is disclosed. With the method, a system can provide a primary target client blended with a plurality of false target clients for a requesting client who seeks making friends. The requesting client is entitled to request the system to delete one of the target clients when communication between both parties reaches a threshold of time. The requesting client does not know which one of the target clients is the real client until all of the false target clients have been deleted, thus reducing preconceptions due to a person's appearance. As such, after a period of communication, both parties may achieve a certain degree of mutual understanding to facilitate a decision on making friends.