Patent ID: 7401098

Claim:
A method for the automated display of human participant-specific data to a human participant of a real-time network, comprising the steps of: (a) collecting human participant specific data for a plurality of network participants, wherein said step of collecting human participant-specific data includes presenting to the human participant an on-line survey comprising a plurality of questions; and detecting and recording the human participant responses to the questions; (b) storing, in memory, the human participant specific data collected, wherein said step of storing the collected human participant-specific data includes creating at least one data table within a database that includes data for a plurality of human participants, and within said table storing at least one record containing information indicative of the human participant responses to the questions; (c) processing the stored human participant specific data, using the compatibility criteria, to determine interpersonal compatibility between at least two network participants, wherein said step of processing the stored human participant-specific data includes retrieving at least one compatibility criteria, wherein the compatibility criteria includes at least one characteristic and a threshold, and applying the compatibility criteria to a plurality of records containing information indicative of the human participant responses in the data table within a database so as to determine the compatibility of the human participants; (d) sorting said human participant specific data from a plurality of network participants by interpersonal compatibility; and (e) automatically displaying at least a portion of the sorted human participant specific data to at least one participant in association with the network.