Friend-Mediated Profile Recommendations for Personalized Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online-matching systems rely solely on daters to select matches, neglecting the influence of friends in the dating process, particularly for individuals in relationships who often facilitate introductions for their single friends.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows users to register as singles or in relationships, enabling friends to participate in the matching process by selecting profiles and making recommendations on behalf of their single friends, with dynamic updates based on user and friend activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system relies solely on daters to select matches, then the system is simple to operate, but it neglects the influence of friends who often facilitate introductions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces friends as intermediary participants in the matching process. Friends receive profile recommendations for their single friends and can select profiles they believe would be good matches. This intermediary mechanism captures the often-overlooked influence of friends in introductions while maintaining system manageability through role-based participation.
2Measurement precision
If friends are allowed to select profiles on behalf of single friends, then matching accuracy improves, but processing resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by having friends pre-select profiles they believe would be good matches before the actual dater views them. This advance selection by informed friends (who know the dater's preferences and personality) improves matching accuracy while reducing the processing burden on the system's recommendation algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a parallel recommendation channel where friends' selections serve as copies or alternatives to the system's algorithmic recommendations. Instead of relying solely on complex algorithms to model interpersonal dynamics, the system captures friend preferences as separate recommendation streams that can be integrated more efficiently.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system processes both user and friend selections, then personalized matching improves, but bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the recommendation process into distinct channels: system-generated recommendations and friend-generated recommendations. Each channel operates independently with its own data flow and processing requirements. This segmentation allows the system to provide personalized matching through multiple sources without consolidating all data processing into a single high-bandwidth pathway.
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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. The first series of profiles corresponds to recommendations of users for a second user. The processor also uses the interface to receive a selection from the first user of a first profile of the first series of profiles. In response to receiving the selection from the first user of the first profile of the first series of profiles, the processor determines, based at least in part on the selection from the first user of the first profile, a second series of profiles. The processor additionally uses the interface to transmit the second series of profiles to the second user.