US 10,834,529 B2Granted

Location-based discovery of network members

AssigneeWireless Discovery LLC

InventorRamzi Alharayeri

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Abstract

A technique for allowing members of the same social network using mobile devices to discover others in the vicinity by personal attributes and in specific picture(s) and name for the purpose of connecting, and the ability to use functions provided by a social network such as SMS, e-mail, chat/instant messaging, multimedia, or video by using unique hardware identification of each member mobile device and personal login information that are stored in a network server computing device; and associating the unique apparatus of the members' hardware with the members' personal profile such that when a search is initiated between members, the results contain the members' profile's picture(s), name, location and additional information as stored in the profiles. The proximity of the users is determined by static or dynamic location of the actual device location identified through mobile radio frequency location technology and internet IP information and saved in the user profile.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A server configured to:

communicate with a first communication device of a first user and a second communication device of a second user over communication links comprising a cellular network;
store in a database a first profile associated with the first user and a second profile associated with the second user, both the first and the second profile comprising at least a picture and a name of their respective users;
automatically determine based on wireless communication that the first communication device and the second communication device are coincidently located within a spatial proximity to one another;
responsive at least to the first communication device and the second communication device coincidently located in a spatial proximity, send to the first communication device a first information about the second profile and send to the second communication device a second information about the first profile, wherein the first communication device displays on a first screen a first invitation comprising at least a picture and name from the second profile and the second communication device displays on a second screen a second invitation comprising at least a picture and name from the first profile, wherein the first communication device is configured to receive a first input from the first user if he is willing to accept the first invitation and the second communication device is configured to receive a second input from the second user if he is willing to accept the second invitation;
receive a first response from the first communication device representing the first input;
receive a second response from the second communication device representing the second input;
and
responsive to both the first and the second input being positive, store information in the database that the first and the second users are now contacts of each other, and if such information is stored in the database, enable the first user and the second user to communicate using the first and the second communication devices.

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A method comprising:

communicating a server with a first communication device of a first user and a second communication device of a second user over communication links comprising a cellular network;
storing, in a database, a first profile associated with the first user and a second profile associated with the second user, wherein both the first and the second profiles comprise at least a picture and a name of their respective users;
automatically determine based on wireless communication that the first communication device and the second communication device are coincidently located within a spatial proximity to one another;
responsive at least to the first communication device and the second communication device coincidently located within a spatial proximity, transmitting, from the server, a first information about the second profile to the first communication device and a second information about the first profile to the second communication device, wherein the first communication device displays on a first screen a first invitation comprising at least a picture and name from the second profile and the second communication device displays on a second screen a second invitation comprising at least a picture and name from the first profile, and wherein the first communication device is configured to receive a first input from the first user if the first user is willing to accept the first invitation, and the second communication device is configured to receive a second input from the second user if the second user is willing to accept the second invitation;
receiving, at the server, a first response from the first communication device representing the first input;
receiving, at the server, a second response from the second communication device representing the second input;
responsive to both the first and the second input being positive, storing connectivity information in the database, wherein the connectivity information represents that the first and second users are enabled to communicate using the first and second communication devices;
and
establishing a connection between the first and second communication devices for enabling the first user and the second user to communicate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/399,954Filed 30 Apr 2019 · continuation
Priority: 10 Jan 2008
Published: US 2019/0261133 A122 Aug 2019
Granted: 10 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…
G06F 16/275
Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system…:…
G06F 16/29
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: geographical information databases
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services

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