DE10310743B4 - Method for establishing contact between persons using at least one communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for establishing contact between persons using at least one communication system, the persons having access to the communication system (1) via a communication terminal (2-5), the method comprising the steps of:
One-time registration of each participant by means of their communication terminal at a network element (6) of the communication system (1), wherein the registration includes the transmission of an individual subscriber profile (7-10) of the person to the network element (6), wherein each participating person their subscriber profile at any time with the help of the communication terminal, and the subscriber profile comprises information about the identity of the participant and at least one personal criterion, the criteria being prioritized by the participant and processed in the network element according to these priorities;
Storing the subscriber profile in the form of a record in the network element;
Checking the records of the participants in the network element for matches in the participant profile and grouping the records according to matching characteristics into different groups, whereby each person's record is at least ...

Description

The The invention relates to a method for the contact switching between Persons with the help of at least one communication system and a communication system for performing the method.

Especially Young people feel the need to be in contact with others young people with the same interests or the same needs to socialize or get to know a partner. As a rule, such Contacts in restaurants, Discotheques or public Events linked. This way, it is not easy to get acquainted with To make people who share the same interests and preferences, what the basis for represents common undertakings.

It is also known contacts over so-called contact exchanges to socialize on the internet. in this connection However, a fixed Internet connection is required.

The The object of the invention is a method for contact placement between persons with the help of at least one communication system which makes it possible to easily establish contacts with persons with the same interests and preferences.

These The object is achieved by the Characteristics of claim 1 solved. A communication system to carry out of the method is given in claim 18.

The Procedure requires a one-time registration of each participant Person in a network element of the communication system, wherein the Registration the transmission an individual subscriber profile of the person to the network element. This Subscriber profile is in the form of a record in the network element saved. This is followed by an examination of the data records of the participants People in network element for matches in the participant profile and a classification of the data sets in dependence of matching Characteristics in different groups. The record of each person will assigned to at least one group. This group includes people the one or more areas of interest or preferences with each other share. The network element transmitted now a contact message to the communication terminal a or more people in a group, with the contact message information about contains other members of the group.

The The invention thus provides a platform for automatic assignment and placement of people with the same interest profiles consideration preferably mobile communication features.

Of the Advantage of the invention is that you can almost anywhere, provided an access to a communication terminal and a preferably mobile Communication network exists, contacts to persons with similar interests and preferences can, taking first information about receives these persons and the user then decide for himself if he is with these persons in Want to contact or not.

preferred Refinements and developments of the invention are specified in the dependent claims.

In In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the transmission the contact message from an additional subscriber transmitted the network element Criterion dependent made. This means the participant can next to the data of his existing subscriber profile specify further criteria under which conditions he information about possible contact persons would like to receive. These criteria can for example, day of the week, time, availability of one picture of the other Be contact persons or any other features.

As already mentioned, the transmission of the Contact message from the network element to the terminal of the persons automatically or preferably only at the request of the respective person.

The Participant profile includes information about the identity the participant and at least one personal criterion. This criterion may result from one or more personal characteristics of the participant To assemble the person. These characteristics may be age, gender, Nationality, Appearance, etc. Furthermore, the criterion may have one or more interests of the participating person, such as traveling, cycling, Sport, occupation, cars, cinema, etc. Another criterion can be the current location or location or a limited Local area around this location, e.g. Radius of 10 km around your own location. This allows a contact search limited to a specific regional environment.

Another criterion may be an offer or even a demand for a certain thing or activity, such as an offer for a company, a party, a joint cinema visit or a product that is to be privately sold. You can follow the same criteria also transmit a demand for activities or products to the network element, which is then compared with available offers in the network element depending on the predetermined criteria.

The individual criteria can classified by the participant according to preferences and priorities be, the network element in the selection of potential contact persons these priorities considered.

According to the invention, the Contact message transmitted as a short message or e-mail or as a voice message become. This depends from the technical possibilities the communication terminal used.

Based the received contact message, the participant can now If desired, a communication connection with one or more in Build the person mentioned in the contact message. This communication connection can be a conventional one Telephone connection, an online connection, a video connection, etc. be.

ever according to which types of communication are preferred, can as Communication network a mobile communication network or a landline or a combination of several different communication networks be used.

A Preferred embodiment of the invention will be described below closer to drawing figures explained. The drawings and their description provide further features, Advantages and applications the invention.

1 schematically shows a communication system for carrying out the invention and the method for registering the persons participating in the process.

2 shows the procedure of information exchange between potential contacts.

3 describes various possibilities of communication links between the contact persons.

4 shows an example of supply and demand of a particular activity among potential contacts.

5 shows a possible information flow in the method according to 4 ,

6 shows a possible structuring of the database based on criteria of the participating persons.

In the following example, we consider four persons who wish to participate in the contact brokerage method according to the invention. Let's call the characters Kathy, Jenny, Bob and Steve. Kathy, Jenny, Bob and Steve are participants in a mobile communications network 1 and have corresponding mobile terminals 2 . 3 . 4 and 5 with which you can communicate over the mobile communications network. Kathy, Jenny, Bob and Steve have their personal interests and hobbies, sharing both common and distinctive interests. The four intend to participate in the contact brokerage service. This service includes one in a network element 6 of the mobile communication network 1 A platform that collects, combines and evaluates various personal information (participant profiles) of the participants and makes this information available to other participants.

To the network element 6 In order to allow information about the interests and preferences of the participants to be transmitted to others, users must first register with the network element. As it is in 1 For example, Jenny registers via her mobile terminal 2 at the network element 6 , For this she gives in her mobile terminal 2 her personal profile, which contains information about her identity, interests and other personal characteristics. In this example, this registration information includes the name, age, interests, the desired maximum number of desired contact information, and the location area within which contact information is to be transmitted by other persons. Bob, Steve and Kathy communicate via their communication terminals 3 . 4 . 5 similar information to the network element.

The network element 6 now combines the information of all participating persons and groups this information or the records based on the respective subscriber profiles, in particular certain characteristics of the subscriber profiles. For this purpose, the network element comprises a database 22 in which all data records of the subscriber profiles are stored. This is exemplary in 6 shown. The data sets are now divided into corresponding groups based on various characteristics such as gender: female, male, interests: travel, computer, sports, cars, occupation or a preferred age such as 10 to 20 years, 20 to 30 years where each subscriber record is also divided into several different groups if it satisfies several of these characteristics or criteria. The individual data fields of the database 23 can be linked together.

The individual groups contain records of people whose interests or criteria agreed in certain points. If the network element 6 Matches between participants is determined according to 2 a contact message 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 transmitted to all persons whose interests and preferences coincide in certain respects. This message can be automatically transmitted, for example by short message service or only at the request of the respective participant to this. The messages can also be issued in dependence on additional filter criteria, which are transmitted by the participating person directly to the network element. In addition to a predefined set of different criteria, users can also create their own rules and criteria that are taken into account when evaluating the possible contact partners.

In the example according to 2 Three users have the common interest of "traveling", namely Jenny, Bob and Kathy. This match causes the network element 6 , Contact news 11 . 12 to send to Jenny and Bob. These contact news 11 . 12 contain the names and contact information of people with matching criteria, which people can be contacted afterwards. In her filter criteria Jenny additionally requested a picture of the possible contact partners, so that a picture of Bob on her mobile radio terminal 2 appears.

Kathy has determined in her participant profile that the "profession" enjoys a higher priority than other interests, so Steve is listed first in her received contact message, with Bob and Jenny also in Kathy's contact message 13 appear as they share a common interest in "traveling" with Kathy.

In the contact message 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 information is provided on how to contact the appropriate potential contact persons. For example, in this example, an e-mail address of the possible contacts is given. Of course, telephone number or address can be specified. This e-mail address can be used to contact persons directly, eg by simply selecting the appropriate name from the terminal's display. Thereupon a communication connection of any kind is established between the two persons.

In the example according to 3 Jenny has decided to contact Bob, in which she is a videophone session 15 sets up. This request is made by the network element 6 edited while the video images and voice data between the terminals 2 . 3 be exchanged over the mobile communication network. Jenny has requested a good video quality, which is also provided if supported by the network. Kathy wants to ask Steve a few questions about the profession. Since Steve is in a meeting, he can not make direct phone contact with her, so she sets up a chat session 16 and send a chat message 17 to Steve, what Steve does, with a message 18 to answer as time permits.

All of these communication services become completely off the network element 6 supported and controlled. In particular, in communication links between a person and several other people provides the network element 6 sure that the information is transmitted according to the requirements and technical possibilities of the users. The network element 6 can also save the messages if a communication partner should not be available at the moment.

The present invention also includes a so-called event service. This is a service for arranging events and events between persons offering such an event and persons looking for such an event. This arrangement is made based on the interests of the people and their location. The network element 6 provide a direct means of communication between these persons in order to arrange for such an event. This communication may be multimedia in nature, such as voice communication, text communication or video communication.

As already described above, the interest groups are based on selected from filter functions and subscriber profiles, such as for example, age, interests, gender, preferences, location and other characteristics.

• – nur Personen nicht älter als 30 Jahre sollen informiert werden;
• – nur Personen die Musik der 80iger Jahre bevorzugen sollen informiert werden;
• – nur Personen die in einem Umkreis von 30 Kilometer sich befinden sollen informiert werden;
• – nur Personen die Getränke oder Essen zur Party beisteuern wollen sollen informiert werden;
• – und nur Personen die ein Bild von sich preisgeben sollen informiert werden.

In the example according to 4 Jenny offers to organize a party, especially for people who are interested in "travel", for which Jenny places this offer in the dataset 7 their subscriber profile and sends this criterion to the network element 6 , Jenny can specify further criteria, which can be found in 4 not shown, such as:

• - only persons not older than 30 years should be informed;
• - only people before the music of the 80s should be informed;
• - only persons who are within a radius of 30 kilometers should be informed;
• - only people who want to contribute drinks or food to the party should be informed;
• - and only people who want to reveal a picture of themselves.

Steve, Kathy and Bob get bored and decide on the network element 6 make a request for the event "Party" by modifying their participant profile 8th . 9 and 10 by entering another criterion search: enter "party", they provide some pictures of themselves and possibly other personal information.

In the network element 6 it is noted that the participant profiles of Steve, Kathy, and Bob include a "party" search query and match the "Party" offer offered by Jenny. According to 5 Jenny receives a message 19 about possible potential participants for their party. At the same time, Bob, Steve and Kathy are using contact news 20 . 21 . 22 informed about the planned party of Jenny. In these contact messages further information about the event such as venue, time, special conditions can be transmitted. Jenny, Bob, Steve and Kathy can now contact each other and discuss the details of the party.

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Claims (16)

A method for establishing contact between persons with the aid of at least one communication system, wherein the persons are connected via a communication terminal ( 2 - 5 ) Access to the communication system ( 1 ), the method comprising the steps of: single registration of each participating person by means of their communication terminal in a network element ( 6 ) of the communication system ( 1 ), whereby the registration involves the transmission of an individual subscriber profile ( 7 - 10 ) of the person to the network element ( 6 ), wherein each participating person can modify their subscriber profile at any time using the communication terminal, and the subscriber profile comprises information about the identity of the participant and at least one personal criterion, the criteria being prioritized by the participant and in the network element according to those priorities to be processed; Storing the subscriber profile in the form of a record in the network element; Checking the records of the participants in the network element for matches in the subscriber profile and division of the records depending on matching characteristics in different groups, the record of each person is assigned to at least one group; Submit a contact message ( 11 - 14 ) from the network element to the communication terminal of one or more persons of a group, wherein the contact message contains information about other members of the group. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that that the transmission the contact message from an additional person transmitted the network element Criterion dependent is done. Method according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized that the transmission the contact message automatically or at the request of the respective Person is initiated. Method according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized that as criterion one or more personal characteristics of the person used become. Method according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized that as criterion one or more interests of the person used become. Method according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized that as a criterion of location or location around the location the person is used. Method according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the criterion used is an offer for a specific item or activity. Method according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized that as a criterion a demand for a particular thing or activity is used. Method according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized that the contact message is transmitted as a short message or e-mail becomes. Method according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized that the contact message is transmitted as a voice message. Method according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized that based on the contact message, a communication link between the person receiving the message and one or more in the person mentioned in the contact message is established. Method according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that a mobile communication network is used as the communication network. Method according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized that a fixed network is used as the communication network. Method according to one of claims 1 to 13, characterized that the input and output of information from / for the person using the communication terminal is carried out. Method according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized that from the communication system information about the location of the persons recorded and considered in the group classification, Communication system for carrying out the method according to claims 1-15, comprising: facilities ( 1 ) for the establishment of communication connection between the terminals ( 2 - 5 ) of the persons using the communication system; a network element ( 6 ) with facilities ( 23 ) for collecting, storing and processing information and subscriber profiles of participating persons; Facilities for recording or determining the location of the participating persons; and means for conversational communication and information transfer between the network element and the participants.