Patent ID: 6934739
Filing Date: 2005-08-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for contact services, the system including at least two contact devices, wherein each person who uses at least one of the contact services has an own contact device which comprises means for storing at least one profile which describes the person and person's requirements, a low-powered short-range transmitter for transmitting the person's profile to other persons' contact devices, a receiver for receiving another persons' profiles from the another persons' contact devices, means for comparing a profile received with the profile stored in the contact device, means for personally adjusting matching percent which describes how similar the profiles compared have at least to result in signalling an alarm, and means for signalling said alarm when the profiles match; characterized in that the system further comprises a contact server and at least one profile mediator, each of which includes a receiver for receiving profiles from the contact devices via their low-powered short-range transmitters and a transmitter for transmitting the profiles received to the contact server, the said contact server including a receiver for receiving the profiles sent from a profile mediator or the contact devices via their low-powered short-range transmitters, means for storing the profiles received, means for comparing the profiles stored and thus finding matching profiles, and an essentially powerful transmitter for transmitting matching information to the contact devices.