Patent ID: 7493342

Claim:
A method for registering human relationships comprising: receiving a first message indicating that a first member wishes to establish a human relationship with a second member; communicating the received first message to the second member; receiving a second message indicating that the second member agrees to establish a human relationship with the first member; communicating the received second message to the first member; storing personal attributes of members; storing the first member's personal attributes and the second member's personal attributes in association with each other in a database when the received second message is communicated to the first member; receiving key words of a search criteria including the second member's personal attributes from the first member; retrieving a third member's personal attributes stored in association with the received second member's personal attributes from the database, the third member establishing a human relationship with the second member; communicating the retrieved third member's personal attributes to the first member; associating the first member's personal attributes with the third member's personal attributes stored in the database when receiving the first message indicating that the first member wishes to establish a human relationship with the third member; communicating the received first message to the third member; receiving the second message indicating that the third member agrees to establish a human relationship with the first member from the third member; and communicating the received second message to the first member.