Patent ID: 11941548
Assignee: ROCKSPOON, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for matching patrons and servers at restaurants, comprising:
a computing device comprising a memory, a processor, and a data storage device;
a database residing in the data storage device, the database comprising profiles of patrons and servers and information about external factors;
a profile mapping and recommendation engine comprising a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory, and operating on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the computing device to:
retrieve a patron's profile from the database;
retrieve the server profiles from the database;
retrieve a plurality of external factors from the database;
map the patron's profile, the server profiles, and the plurality of external factors in a computational graph and use graph analysis algorithms to identify a plurality of servers who are most connected with the patron in the computational graph, wherein patrons are mapped to servers according to the following process:
patrons are initially mapped to servers according to a first clustering algorithm in which a first variance measures discrepancies between the patrons and servers by probability distribution and a second variance measures discrepancies between the patrons and servers by overall stationary distribution; and
for patrons matching two or more servers in the first clustering algorithm, those patrons are then mapped to servers according to a second clustering algorithm in which a shortest path between each patron and each server in the computational graph is calculated; and

match the patron to one of the servers in the plurality of servers based on the mapping and on the plurality of external factors.