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Method and apparatus for match making    
United States Patent6023729   
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Inventor(s)Samuel; Daniel Joseph (Sunnyvale, CA), Wolf; Michael Andrew (Mountain View, CA), Clark; Donald Peregrine (Sunnyvale, CA)
AbstractA method and apparatus related to grouping (or matching) network users and computers associated with multi-user applications is disclosed. Each user is associated with a client computer that is connected to a network. A match maker application resides on one or more server computer(s). The match maker application controls the process of collecting Clients into matched sets, called client groups, based upon a wide range of attributes of the users, their client computers, the server computers, software application titles, application instances and/or data communication links of the network, for example. Each time the match maker application creates a client group, it creates a group data set that represents the client group. Network match making information is presented to users in an understandable manner using icons, other graphical images or collections of icons and/or images, for example, displayed on a display screen. For example, a non-textual element of a graphical image can be varied to communicate group information about a client group to a user. A variety of non-textual elements can be used to communicate a variety of group information to a user.



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Inventor     Samuel; Daniel Joseph (Sunnyvale, CA) , Wolf; Michael Andrew (Mountain View, CA) , Clark; Donald Peregrine (Sunnyvale, CA)
Owner/Assignee     MPATH Interactive, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
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Publication Date     February 8, 2000
Application Number     08/876,953
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Filing Date     June 17, 1997
US Classification     709/228 463/42 709/204 709/227
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Examiner     Asta; Frank J.
Assistant Examiner     Thompson; Marc D.
Attorney/Law Firm     Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.
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Parent Case     This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional application No. 60/044,023 entitled Method and Apparatus for Match Making, filed on May 5, 1997 having inventors Daniel J. Samuel, Michael A. Wolf, Donald P. Clarke.
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USPTO Field of Search     395/200.3 395/200.33 395/200.34 395/200.35 395/200.36 395/200.37 395/200.5 395/200.52 395/200.53 395/200.54 395/200.55 463/42 709/200 709/203 709/204 709/205 709/206 709/207 709/220 709/222 709/223 709/224 709/225 709/226 709/227 709/228 709/238 709/239 709/244
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