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TITLE: Online Dating System
Summary: A method and system for balancing the supply of desirable users with the demand by other users to date them in an online dating system is provided. The method includes enabling a first user to make an offer to pay or to be paid a compensation for having a date with a second user. The offer made by the first user is transmitted to the second user. The second user responds to the first user by accepting, rejecting or making a counter offer. The first user and the second user are allowed to communicate only after any one of the users accepts an offer.
- Publication Number: US 20130110731 A1
- Assignee: Seeking Arrangements, Inc.
- Prior Art Date: Seeking prior Art predating Oct 26, 2011
- Open for Challenge at USPTO: Open through Nov 2, 2013
Claim 1 requires, among other things:
A method for balancing supply of and demand for dating desirable users in an online dating system, the method comprising:
receiving from a first user an offer to pay, or to be paid, a compensation to have a date with a second user;
transmitting said offer to said second user;
receiving a response from said second user to either accept, or reject, said offer; and
allowing the two users to communicate only after said offer is accepted.
Claims 7, 12 and 15 specify further that:
Compensation could be selected from a group consisting of money, points, gifts and credits.
Users could provide review or rating corresponding to the other user whom they have dated.
The terms or conditions of the "date" could be negotiated.
The specification notes that:
- The Invention should not be limited to the types of software operating system, web-server software, database software, software development language, server or client hardware.
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QUESTION - Have you seen anything that was published before 10/26/2011 that discusses:
(1) offers to pay; or (2) offers to be paid for dating desirable users in the manner described in claim 1?
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