Social Matchmaking Peer Review System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing matchmaking systems rely solely on algorithms and user input, lacking a human element to accurately predict the success of interpersonal relationships, leading to suboptimal match recommendations.

Innovation Solution

A peer-review system where users' potential matches are presented to third-party peers for evaluation, generating social ratings based on peer feedback, which influence match recommendations, incorporating factors like age, location, and personality traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If peer-review system is implemented to improve match accuracy, then recommendation accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematch recommendation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces third-party peers as intermediaries who review and evaluate potential matches. These peers act as mediators between the matchmaking algorithm and the final recommendation, providing human judgment to enhance accuracy. The peer-review mechanism allows multiple perspectives to evaluate compatibility based on personality traits, communication styles, and relationship potential, thereby improving measurement precision of match quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback loop where peer reviews of past matches are collected and used to refine future recommendations. Peers provide evaluations of relationship outcomes, which are then fed back into the matchmaking algorithm to continuously improve its accuracy. This feedback mechanism allows the system to learn from actual relationship successes and failures, enhancing the precision of match predictions over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If peer reviews are collected from multiple third parties to improve rating accuracy, then social rating precision is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesocial rating accuracyVSAvoidtime for collecting reviews
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-selecting and pre-vetting potential peer reviewers before they are needed for a specific match evaluation. Peers are established and calibrated in advance based on their own profiles and demonstrated judgment accuracy. When a match needs review, the system can quickly assign from this pre-prepared pool of qualified peers, reducing the time required to collect multiple reviews while maintaining rating precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a strategy where a sufficient number of peer reviews are collected to achieve statistical significance, rather than requiring exhaustive reviews from all possible peers. The system determines an optimal threshold number of reviews needed to achieve reliable social ratings, balancing the need for accuracy with time constraints. This partial action approach collects enough reviews to ensure precision without the excessive time cost of gathering unlimited feedback.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS9785703B1Systems and methods for online social matchmaking
Publication Date: 2017.10.10 EHARMONY
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AI summary

A computer-based system for presenting interpersonal relationship recommendation that utilizes peer based opinions about a potential match to influence the recommendation, and that presents the peer based opinions along with the recommendation.