Patent ID: 8812519

Claim:
A method for providing to a user dating recommendations from a database of individuals available for dating that includes face images of said individuals, wherein one or more of the following steps are carried out by computers, processors, computer programs or electronic data or memory devices not a transient electronic signal: (a) mapping each face image in said database into data points; (b) based upon the mapped face data generating an objectively diverse seed group of database face images; (c) having the user select from said objectively diverse seed group of face images those images the user finds attractive or unattractive; (d) determining the importance of the mapped face data by the extent to which data points are proportional to the statistical differences for the mapped face images selected by the user as attractive and the mapped face images selected by the user as unattractive; (e) scoring each face image in the database based upon the importance of the mapped face data; and (f) organizing the database of face images into a dating recommendation list based upon said scoring.