Patent ID: 7617160

Claim:
A method comprising: electronically creating an event related profile of a first user registered for an event hosted by a third party provider where at least one user is unknown to a second user, the profile includes terms indicative of preferences with respect to the third party hosted event and characteristics of the first user; electronically monitoring activities of the first user prior to, during, and after participation of a third party hosted event; electronically automatically updating the profile of the first user according to third party hosted event activities of the first user; electronically receiving an inquiry from the first user for at least one match with a second user based on at least one keyword; electronically providing a list of matches of other users at the third party hosted event to the first user in response to the inquiry, wherein the match is a second user sharing at least one relevant interest with the first user based on profiles of the first and second users, wherein the first user and the second user register to participate in at least one common or related third party hosted event.