Determining trustworthiness and compatibility of a person

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying documents related to a person, deriving behavior and personality trait metrics from analyzing the documents for information relevant to assessing behavior and personality of the person, and determine a trustworthiness score or compatibility score of the person based on the behavior and personality trait metrics using a scoring system.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for providing a compatibility score of a person comprising:
 obtaining a request for a compatibility score between two persons from a requestor;   for a plurality of different behavior and personality traits, identifying respective portions of a respective plurality of documents that contain information relevant to predicting the trait of a first person based on a type of the document indicated by one or more of a source of the document, a layout of the document, a content type of the document, and a data or metadata contained in the document;   deriving a behavior trait metric of the first person for each behavior trait by analyzing the respective document portions for the behavior trait;   deriving a personality trait metric of the first person for each personality trait by analyzing the respective document portions for the personality trait;   providing the behavior trait metrics and the personality trait metrics of the first person and corresponding metrics for a second person as input to a scoring system and obtaining as output from the system a compatibility score between the two persons;   providing the compatibility score to the requestor; and   wherein obtaining, identifying, deriving and providing are performed by one or more computer processors.