Patent Document ID: 20100266167
Application ID: 12764087
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. 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 substantially the same points of comparison located upon said face of each said digital image; employing software, based upon said points of comparison, 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 said digital image of an individual inquiring subscriber, to said facial profiles in said database, to thereby ascertain a plurality of matching facial images each having facial profiles similar to said digital image 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 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 individual said digital image of said inquiring subscriber to generate a collage image; and providing said collage image to said inquiring subscribe for display on a webpage.