Question server to facilitate communication between participants

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for facilitating contact or communication between users or participants. A profile matching process is performed to match a user profile of a first user to a user profile of a second user. A number of questions to ask the second user are automatically selected. In addition, an answer to one or more of the questions may be suggested to the second user. The questions and any suggested answers are then sent to the second user at an associated user device. A reward to be revealed to the second user in response to answering the questions may also be provided. A summary of the answers given by the second user may be provided to the first user. In response, the first user may choose to share his or her full or partial user profile, contact information, or the like with the second user.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a communication interface communicatively coupling the system to a plurality of user devices of a plurality of users via a network; at least one hardware processor; and memory containing software executable by the at least one processor, whereby the system is operative to:
receive a request from a first user to initiate contact with another user:in response to receiving the request:
perform a profile matching process to identify a user profile of a second user of the plurality of users that matches the user profile of the first user to a defined degree, wherein to perform the profile matching process, the system is operative to determine that the user profile of the second user matches the user profile of the first user to the defined degree based on at least one rule comprising a location-based rule that defines a location-based relationship between the first user and the second user that must exist before the user profiles of the first and second users are determined to be matching;notify the first user at a user device associated with the first user that another user having a matching user profile has been identified;notify the second user at the user device associated with the second user that another user having a matching user profile has been identified;receive authorization from both the first and second users:in response to receiving the authorization from the first and second users:
automatically and preferentially select at least one question to ask the second user on behalf of the first user after performing the profile matching process; andprovide the at least one question to the second user at a user device of the plurality of user devices associated with the second user.