Patent ID: 8923574

Claim:
A method for matching digital facial images of subscribers to a social network to current and newly acquired facial images of other persons comprising the steps of: providing an accessible website for potential users of said social network; providing an input webpage for said potential users to register as subscribers to said social network; allowing said subscribers to upload digital images to a database on a server for said social network with each respective said digital image having the face of a respective said subscriber therein; employing software adapted to the task, to designate points of comparison located upon said face of each said digital image; employing secondary software, based upon said points of comparison, which is adapted to designate a respective facial profile for each said digital image of each said subscriber; storing said facial profiles in a database; comparing said facial profile of an individual inquiring subscriber, to said facial profiles stored in said database, to thereby ascertain a plurality of matching facial images, each said matching facial image having a respective facial profile similar to said facial profile of said inquiring subscriber; providing said inquiring subscriber said plurality of matching facial images; allowing said inquiring subscriber to designate a selection from said plurality of matching facial images provided, which said inquiring subscriber considers a close match to their own respective said digital image, as a matched group of images; employing said matched group of images, and said digital image of said inquiring subscriber, to generate a collage image; and providing said collage image to said inquiring subscriber for display on a webpage.