Matching System for Real-Time Knowledge Sharing Between Knowledge Seekers and Knowledge Providers Offering Choice of Free and Fee-Based Services Across Multiple Categories and Subjects and Involving both Ad Hoc and Sheduled Knowledge Transfer Sessions Facilitated and Achieved Using Hybrid Network Topology Comprising Client-Server and Peer-To-Peer Functions

摘要

System of matching algorithms for pairing parties wherein one party seeks and consumes knowledge and the other party provides knowledge by means of real-time knowledge transfer sessions conducted via video communications and multiple media. Knowledge can be transferred through collaborative problem solving, questions-and-answers, tutorials, structured sessions, and unstructured sessions. The transfer of knowledge can take place on a pay-for-service basis or by means of knowledge-gifting. The system can accommodate one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many assemblages of knowledge sharing participates. The system includes post-session ratings of each party by and of the other party, building cumulative ratings scores, supplemented with video and voice and text reviews with the resultant data woven into an algorithmic solution for matching participants in future sessions with optimally favorable outcomes, based on the quantifiably expressed feedback of all session participants.