Timeline for How can a dating site like OkCupid patent a matching system
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| May 17, 2022 at 20:23 | comment | added | George White♦ | FYI - Assuming geometric mean was central to your question, II used the google patent advanced site with this search string ((-face profile match "geometric mean")) ((G06Q30/02)) country:US and got about 40 hits. I do not know if any are specifically relevant to your question. Of course application that are not yet published will not be found. | |
| May 17, 2022 at 16:43 | comment | added | Eric S | @user2559519 Not sure why you think that application is the one okcupid is referring too. | |
| May 17, 2022 at 5:57 | comment | added | George White♦ | To dive deeper you can look up the entire history of back-and-forth with the USPTO during examination at PatentCenter. It got an initial non-final rejection and never responded, so it went abandoned. | |
| May 17, 2022 at 5:17 | comment | added | user2559519 | So I think I may have found the patent and the status is "abandoned." I found out OkCupid used to be owned by Rainbow Humor Inc. Searched that and this came up: patents.google.com/patent/US20060106667A1/… but it's abandoned | |
| May 16, 2022 at 20:40 | comment | added | George White♦ | There are probably at least dozens of patents in this area that you would want to study if you were thinking about building a product. When and if OkQupid gest a patent you would need to study the allowed claims to see the delineation of what it covers and doesn't cover. Reading patent claims in context to figure this out is not a trivial exercise. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 18:32 | comment | added | user2559519 | Thank you. I wonder if this method never got patented. I'm still having a hard time understanding what is off limits about applying this method to another matchmaking service | |
| May 15, 2022 at 15:07 | comment | added | George White♦ | True - my point was that my comment did not depend on knowing any specific claim language. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 13:40 | comment | added | Eric S | Good answer, but there is no guarantee an application is assigned to okcupid. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 7:31 | history | edited | George White♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2022 at 6:48 | history | answered | George White♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |