Patent application EP17174390A (EP), filed 2017-06-02
Publication number: EP3253032A1
Title: MEDIATING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
Abstract: [0001]    A mediating method may include: preparing at least two lists that respectively correspond to different values of a specific feature and that each of which includes at least one item; receiving first information about a first terminal or a user of the first terminal from the first terminal; deriving a value corresponding to the specific feature using the received first information; selecting a first list from among the at least two lists using the derived value; determining whether a first item matching the user of the first terminal is present in the at least one item included in the first list using the first information; and when it is determined that the first item is present in the first list, transmitting second information corresponding to the first item to the first terminal, or transmitting third information corresponding to the first terminal to a second terminal corresponding to the first item.
IPC codes: H04L  29/    06            A I
H04L  29/    08            A I
G06Q  50/    00            A I
G06F  16/  2457            A I
G06F  16/  9535            A I
H04L  65/  1069            A I
H04L  65/   403            A I
H04L  67/    30            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: A mediating method comprising:
number: 2
text: The mediating method of claim 1, wherein the items included in the at least two lists correspond to waiting users who wait to be mediated or terminals of the waiting users.
number: 3
text: The mediating method of claim 1, further comprising, when it is determined that the first item is present in the first list, removing the first item from the first list.
number: 4
text: The mediating method of claim 1, further comprising, when it is determined that the first item is not present in the first list, adding an item corresponding to the user of the first terminal to the first list.
number: 5
text: The mediating method of claim 4, further comprising, after the adding of the item corresponding to the user of the first terminal to the first list:
number: 6
text: The mediating method of claim 4, wherein the at least two lists include a second list that is different from the first list,
at least one item included in the second list corresponds to a second value of the specific feature, and
after the adding of the item corresponding to the user of the first terminal to the first list, the mediating method further comprises adding the item corresponding to the user of the first terminal to the second list when the user of the first terminal is not mediated until a specific time has elapsed.
number: 7
text: The mediating method of claim 1, wherein the first list corresponds to a first value of the specific feature, and
at least one of the at least one item included in the first list corresponds to the first value.
number: 8
text: The mediating method of claim 7, wherein the at least two lists include a second list that is different from the first list,
at least one item included in the second list corresponds to a second value of the specific feature, and
the mediating method further comprises:
number: 9
text: The mediating method of claim 8, wherein the first value and the second value have an inclusion relation.
number: 10
text: The mediating method of claim 8, further comprising, when it is determined that the first item is not present in the second list, adding an item corresponding to the user of the first terminal to the first list or the second list.
number: 11
text: The mediating method of claim 1, further comprising:
number: 12
text: The mediating method of claim 11, wherein each of the at least one item included in the first list corresponds to a waiting user who waits to be mediated,
each of the at least one item includes information about the waiting user corresponding to the item, and
the calculating of the correspondences comprises:
number: 13
text: The mediating method of claim 1, wherein the specific feature is location, gender, age, job, interest, ethnicity, religion, language, favorite partner condition, or a combination thereof.
number: 14
text: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.
number: 15
text: A mediating device comprising:
Office action: search_report, dated 2017-12-06
Rejection reasons: novelty_epc_54
Prior art cited: ref_id: US2011289433A1
ref_type: patent
severity: background
ref_id: WO2013081345A1
ref_type: patent
severity: background
ref_id: US2011289433
ref_type: patent
severity: novelty_destroying
ref_id: WO2013081345
ref_type: patent
severity: novelty_destroying
Final disposition: pending (2017-12-06)