Patent ID: 8060573

Claim:
A computer system for recommending prospects to social network users, the client computer comprising: a user input device; a display device; a processor; a memory; wherein the processor and the memory comprise circuits and software for: obtaining personal attribute information from a first plurality of the users; obtaining desired-prospect attribute information from a second plurality of the users; identifying a plurality of prospects to recommend to the users based on the personal attribute information and the desired-prospect attribute information; obtaining ratings of a plurality of prospects from a third plurality of the users; recommending a subset of the prospects to a fourth plurality of the users, wherein the recommended subset of the prospects have acceptable proximities to the users based upon the ratings, the desired-prospect attribute information and the personal attribute information; and providing to a fifth plurality of the users respective preliminary lists of prospects, and obtaining from the fifth plurality of users each user's rating of the prospects in the user's respective preliminary list, wherein the ratings reflect the user's opinion of a quality of match of the prospects in the preliminary fist, and wherein the fifth plurality of the users comprises a subset of the first plurality of users, the second plurality of users and the third plurality of the users.