Patent Document ID: 9703847
Application ID: 14875584

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method performed by a computer system of one or more processors and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing software instructions executable by the computer system to perform the method comprising: receiving, from a first user, a request to identify an individual, the request including descriptive metadata associated with the individual and/or an event attended by the individual; accessing a plurality of stories stored on the non-transitory computer-readable storage device, each story of the plurality of stories previously submitted by a user and comprising respective intersection metadata indicating one or more of a time or location of the story; determining, using the descriptive metadata, one or more candidate individuals included in respective stories having intersection metadata corresponding to at least a portion of the descriptive metadata; providing, to the first user, indications of the one or more candidate individuals; receiving, from the first user, a selection of a particular candidate individual as the individual; and establishing respective user introductions between the first user and the particular candidate individual.

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Claim 5:
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: filtering the candidate individuals according to one or more criteria, wherein the criteria comprise soft criteria, which indicate a nonconforming candidate individual is to remain as a candidate individual, and/or hard criteria, which indicate a nonconforming candidate individual is to be removed as a candidate individual.