Patent ID: 9466064
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of identifying and providing a potential mutual correspondence of resources offered and interests in resource between two different resource providers of a plurality of resource providers offering their resources over a network and displaying the potential mutual correspondence to at least one of the resource providers via the network, the method comprising: receiving at a first computer system coupled to the network, via a plurality of second computer systems coupled to the network, characteristics about the resources being provided by each of the plurality of resource providers; receiving at the first computer system via the plurality of second computer systems via the network from each of the plurality of resource providers, explicit preference information for characteristics of the resources desired by said resource provider; receiving at the first computer system a plurality of indications of actions taken by each of the plurality of resource providers regarding individual other resource providers, the actions having been taken for purposes other than providing preference information for characteristics of the resources desired by said resource provider; identifying at the first computer system the potential mutual correspondence between the two different resource providers responsive to the characteristics of the two different resource providers, the explicit preference information received from the two different resource providers and at least one other of the plurality of resource providers and at least some of the indications of actions of the two different resource providers and at least one other of the plurality of resource providers; and providing from the first computer system to at least one of the plurality of second computer systems, an indication of at least one of the two different resource providers for which the potential mutual correspondence was identified to the other of the two different resource providers, responsive to the identifying step.