US 12,154,147 B2
System and method for matching customers with hair stylist based on holistic criteria
Thomas Pocard, Chevilly Larue (FR); Lucien Bildstein, Saint-Ouen (FR); Thibaut Quelquejay, Clichy (FR); Yann Waye Keuong, Saint-Ouen (FR); Jennifer Servant, Chevilly-Larue (FR); Julien Blanchard, Clichy (FR); and Maud Pasquier, Saint-Ouen (FR)
Assigned to L'Oreal, Paris (FR)
Filed by L'Oreal, Paris (FR)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/475,048.
Application 18/475,048 is a continuation of application No. 17/348,321, filed on Jun. 15, 2021, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 20180318 (EP), filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0013265 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0282 (2023.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06Q 50/00 (2024.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0282 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2428 (2019.01); G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G06F 16/337 (2019.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of ranking salon icons through using graphical user interfaces, the method comprising:
via a first graphical user interface, allowing selecting from a user or a hair stylist;
upon selecting a hair stylist in the first graphical interface, via a second graphical user interface, allowing the hair stylist to select a profile;
upon selecting a profile in the second graphical interface, via a third graphical user interface, allowing the hair stylist to input social media accounts, hair styling skills, and categorical values relating to personality;
upon selecting a user in the first graphical user interface, via a fourth graphical user interface, allowing the user to select a profile;
upon selecting a profile in the fourth graphical user interface, via a fifth graphical user interface, allowing the user to input social media accounts and categorical values relating to personality similar to the categorical values of the hair stylist;
after creating multiple user profiles and multiple hair stylist profiles,
upon selecting a user in the first graphical interface, via the fourth graphical user interface, allowing the user to a find a hair stylist;
upon selecting find a hair stylist, via a sixth graphical user interface, allowing input of user location, hair styling service, importance of matching categorical values relating to personality, after completing the inputs in the sixth graphical user interface;
with one or more artificial intelligence routines, analyzing user-generated content of a plurality of hair stylists' social media accounts to capture the categorical values, including personality traits, using image analysis by an image processor;
determining via the analyzing a geolocation of a salon associated with each of the plurality of hair stylists;
with one or more artificial intelligence routines, analyzing user-generated content of one or more social media accounts of the user to automatically capture the categorical values, including personality traits, using image analysis by an image processor;
determining a geolocation of the user using a global positioning system;
ranking the hair stylists based on the analyzed categorical values of the hair stylist and the analyzed categorical values of the user;
applying a first location filter to filter out the salons that are not within a predetermined distance from the geolocation of the user;
applying a second filter to rank the salons by closeness of a match between the categorical values of the user to the categorical values of each hair stylist, wherein the categorical values of the user assigned higher importance are given more weight when ranking the salons; and
displaying hair stylists and their salon icons on a seventh graphical user interface in order of descending closeness from highest to lowest ranking.