Patent ID: 7800507

Claim:
A matching system comprising: a first monitor configured to transmit first identification information to a presence detector; a second monitor configured to transmit second identification information to the presence detector; the presence detector configured to receive the first identification information and the second identification information and to send the first identification information and the second identification information to a server; the server storing a first profile associated with the first identification information and a second profile associated with the second identification information and the server is configured to receive the first identification information and the second identification information and compare the first profile and the second profile to determine whether the first profile and the second profile match according to matching criteria; wherein, in response to matching the first and second profiles, the server is configured to generate and send a first matching attribute to the first monitor and a second matching attribute to the second monitor; wherein the first matching attribute is unique to the second monitor and presented on the first monitor being at least one of outwardly visible or audible so as to be informative to a person other than a user of the first monitor of the match and the second matching attribute is unique to the first monitor and presented on the second monitor being at least one of outwardly visible or audible so as to be informative to a person other than a user of the second monitor of the match.