US 2010/0136956 A1Published application

Real-time discovery and mutual screening of candidates for direct personal contact in user-designated vicinities

OwnerAlexander Drachev, Victor Baidoon +1inventors

InventorsAlexander Drachev, Victor Baidoon, Michael Rozenman

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Abstract

A method for real-time discovery and mutual screening of candidates for direct personal contact in a vicinity, using electronic devices that can communicate with a central facility, and with each other. Each user individually sets one or more target vicinity, personal attributes, and screening criteria. A list of desirable and/or available candidates in his or her designated vicinity is delivered to each user's device. Users will be able to recognize the candidates from provided descriptions, and either modify their settings to adjust the lists, or send a request for contact to a selected available candidate. Each user can iterate, until their request is accepted, or they accept a request from another user. The method minimizes both the probability, and the embarrassment of rejection by means of mutual screening of the desirable available candidates.

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Dependent claims

A method for real-time discovery and mutual screening of candidates for Direct Personal Contact, i.e., an interaction between two or more people not mediated by any other persons or systems, comprising:

(a) a plurality of electronic devices communicating with a central facility and with each other;
(b) an interface on these devices, allowing users to enter and edit personal attributes, designate a target vicinity, and set their personal description in text and/or media;
(c) a facility to discover devices located in each of the vicinities designated by the users;
(d) a facility for each user to set and edit screening criteria based on the attributes of other users;
(e) a facility to enumerate, for each user, all desirable candidates in his designated vicinity, as users matching his screening criteria;
(f) a facility to enumerate all candidates available to a given user, as all users to whom this user is desirable;
(g) an interface on the devices that lists to each user who is desirable, and who is available;
(h) a facility to notify user about changes in their lists of desirable and available users;
(i) a facility and user interface to initiate a private chat session to request and receive pre-approval for Direct Personal Contact with an available user.

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