Patent Publication Number: US-2023161680-A1

Title: Blind networking

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     As discussed previously in Application No. 62/973,409, Filed on Oct. 4, 2019, the invention is a new technology in the area of Social Networking. 
     As of now Human Interaction Websites can be categorized into two formats. The first is dating sites and the second is Online Social Networking sites, that are limited to facilitating user interaction on a computer screen. 
    
    
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     This invention is an online service that can be offered to the members of a social networking site and which taps into the human instinct to intermingle with other individuals and not just a computer screen, but in actual and physical terms. It enables the members of a social network to interact with other members, not only in cyber-space but in-person/face to face in the outside world, irrespective of user location and without having to arrange the interaction themselves, as the service does it for them with a click of a button in either instantaneous (real time) or delayed formats. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     This invention is a new technology that can offer consumers an improvement from the existing social networking experience, which is limited to facilitating user interaction on a computer screen. 
     It is a user initiated and user-abortable on-line service, that accomplishes the website determined, real time or delayed (as per the user&#39;s indication and suitability), matching up of the members of a social network in individual to individual, individual to group and group to group settings at social events, venues and locations. 
     The service can include “selective” and “random” matching options for users. And the matching of users occurs based on a specified list of criteria, which can remain constant or be changed as required. The events, venues and locations can be either site determined, or user determined, depending upon user&#39;s preference and suitability. 
     Users can be notified, status updated and surveyed through the Blind-Networking User App or through text messaging. 
     The technology can be developed using any of the Front-end and Back-end programing languages such as C#, VB, .net and JAVA, among others. The Front-end must be user interactive and the technology should be able to integrate camera and sound recording/playback functions. 
     A user data collection process that, after the initial uploading of info by the user, accumulates (dynamically) information about the user, the user&#39;s personality, habits, activities, likes and dislikes along with other information about the user and the user&#39;s environment feeds the matching function of the service. 
     The user&#39;s location can be pinpointed by tracking the user&#39;s smartphone, after a confirmation text message is returned to the service provided, by using Google Map, with an in-house built tracking technology or a different third party supplier. After this the user would get matched with other users based on the matching criteria and the user&#39;s location at the time.