Patent ID: 8943047
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method to qualify a partner candidate, comprising: detecting, by a partner seeking website and independent of detecting any relationship change of any user of the partner seeking website, that a user is browsing a profile of the partner candidate on a webpage of the partner seeking website, wherein the partner seeking website is configured to allow the user to search a plurality of human partners and to seek a partner relationship from the plurality of human partners, wherein the plurality of human partners comprise the partner candidate; retrieving, in response to the indication and based on a characteristics category of a plurality of characteristics categories, a self-described attribute of the partner candidate from the profile of the partner candidate, wherein each of plurality of characteristics categories relates to a characteristic of the partner candidate; accessing a first social network to retrieve one or more comments posted by social network friends of the partner candidate regarding the partner candidate, wherein the first social network is used by the partner candidate to exchange social interaction messages with the social network friends of the partner candidate; parsing, by a processor of a computer system, the one or more comments to extract a first social network data item corresponding to the characteristics category; determining, by the processor, a first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the plurality of characteristics categories and representing a first focus of the first social network; comparing, using a keyword library comprising pre-determined keywords and pre-determined keyword similarity measures, the first social network data item and the self-described attribute to generate a first characteristics category score, wherein a range of the first characteristics category score is determined by one of the first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the characteristics category; assigning, by the processor, the first characteristics category score to the self-described attribute, wherein the first characteristics category score represents a first validity measure of the self-described attribute based on the first social network data; and presenting, on the webpage of the partner seeking website and in response to the user browsing the profile of the partner candidate, the first characteristics category score in association with the self-described attribute to the user, wherein the first characteristics category score is superimposed over the profile displayed on the webpage, and wherein the user determines, based on at least the first characteristics category score, whether the partner candidate is suitable for entering into a partner relationship.