Online Method and System for Identifying Potential Friends and Building Real Friendships Therebetween

摘要

An online system collects extensive profile information from users, performs a matching process that identifies best matches between users as potential friends, and performs a bonding process that challenges the matched users to tasks that serve to reinforce and deepen the level of friendship between the matched users. The bonding process includes a plurality of increasingly more personal levels of friendship that are achieved by accomplishing a plurality of increasingly personal challenges that must be completed before moving on to the next level. The ultimate level of bonding is best friends.

主权项

1. An online system for identifying potential friends among users and building real friendships therebetween, the system comprising:
a database for receiving and storing user global profile information for each user; at least one computer processing device coupled to the database, the computer processing device accessible to the users over a network; a matching engine for identifying best matches between users based on a comparison of the profile information of each of the users; and a bonding engine for leading matched users through a bonding process to reinforce and deepen their friendship.