Systems and Methods for Connecting Travelers with Natives for an At-Home Culinary Experience
OwnerRichard Paul Bonfiglioinventor
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Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for connecting a traveler traveling to a geographic location on business and/or pleasure with one or more natives of the geographic location in order to enrich the traveler's experience of the geographic region and enhance the traveler's knowledge of the culture, customs and social etiquette of the geographic location by having the traveler share a home-cooked meal prepared, served, hosted and eaten with the native in the native's residence, referred to as an “at home culinary experience.”
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A computer-implemented system provided by an online matching service for matching a person traveling to a region and wishing to experience an at-home culinary experience in the home of a native of the region, comprising a web server processor or a local server processor, a web server database or a local server database, and a matching algorithm, referred to as a traveler-native match algorithm, said web server processor or said local server processor executing the traveler-native match algorithm using information stored in memory in the web server database or the local server database in order to identify matches between a person traveling to a geographic region, referred to as a traveler-seeker, said traveler-seeker wishing to experience a home-cooked meal in a residence of one or more natives of the geographic region, and one or more natives residing in the geographic region, referred to as native-offerors, said native-offerors wishing to offer a home-cooked meal and to eat the home-cooked meal in their home with the traveler-seeker, said information provided by the traveler-seeker and the one or more native-offerors, wherein the online matching service includes a registration process, an acceptance process, and a matching process.
A computer-implemented method for providing a person traveling to a geographic region an at-home culinary experience in the home of a native of the geographic region, said method provided by an online matching service and comprising:
- accessing a computer-implemented system by a person traveling to a geographic region, referred to as a traveler-seeker, said traveler-seeker wishing to experience a home-cooked meal in a residence of one or more natives of the geographic region;
- and by one or more natives residing in the geographic region, referred to as native-offerors, said native-offerors wishing to offer a home-cooked meal and eating the home-cooked meal in their home with the traveler-seeker, said accessing accomplished via the internet or via a telephone;
- registering for the online matching service by the traveler-seeker and the one or more native-offerors, said registration comprised of the traveler-seeker and the one or more native-offerors filling out a questionnaire by providing information referred to as attributes, said attributes entered into a web server database or a local server database;
- accepting the traveler-seeker and the one or more native-offerors by the online match service, said acceptance comprised of the online matching service verifying the truthfulness of the information provided by the traveler-seeker and the one or more native-offerors in their respective questionnaires, and conducting a background investigation of the traveler-seeker and the one or more of native-offerors to confirm that the traveler-seeker and/or the one or more native-offerors have no criminal history;
- matching the traveler-seeker with one or more native-offerors, said matching performed by a web server processor or a local server processor which executes a matching algorithm, referred to as a traveler-native match algorithm, using information stored in memory in the web server database or local server database, in order to identify any matches between the traveler-seeker and the one or more native-offerors;
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- reporting the results of the database search by the web server processor or the local server processor to the traveler-seeker and to any matched native-offerors.
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