Method, device and system for creating a virtual local social network
AssigneeWix.com Ltd.
InventorsIdo Gaver, Eran Kirshenboim, Aner Armon
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Abstract
There is provided a system and method for creating a local social network, based on a user's location and a user's virtual social profile (e.g. a facebook profile, a myspace profile) on a virtual social network (e.g. facebook, myspace). The method includes the steps of: (1) associating a communication device with a user's virtual profile, (2) detecting a communication device within an interactive region, (3) extracting unique parameters of the communication device, (4) retrieving data associated with the communication device and with the user's virtual profile, and (5) initiating data transfer based on the retrieved data.
Claims20
A method of establishing a link between two or more online social network users based on presence within an interactive region, said method comprising:
- associating a digital identifier of a specific mobile communication device with a specific online social network user for at least some online social network users to generate a data set which correlates online social network users with their respective mobile communication devices;
- using digital identifiers identified by a localized transceiver to detect a presence of specific mobile communication devices within an interactive region covered by the localized transceiver and updating corresponding data storage which links online social network users with the interactive region by sending a list of user devices detected within the interactive region to a remote server with a database linking the digital identifiers to social network users;
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- responsive to identifying within the interactive region copresence of specific online social network users having some common characteristic, triggering an online social network related service to generate and send one or more messages to at least some of one or more of the specific users with content to promote an interaction between the specific online social network users.
An online social network user linking system for promoting communication between two or more online social network users of an online social network based on their presence within an area of an interactive region, said system comprising:
- a device identifier to associate a digital identifier of a specific mobile communication device with a specific online social network user for at least some online social network users to generate a data set which correlates online social network users with their respective mobile communication devices;
- a wireless communication device transceiver to detect a presence of the specific mobile communication device within an interactive region and to update a corresponding data storage which links online social network users with the interactive region by sending a, list of user devices detected within the interactive region to a remote server with a database linking the digital identifiers to social network users;
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- processing circuits to, responsive to identifying within the interactive region copresence of specific online social network users having some common characteristic, triggering an online social network related service to generate and send one or more messages to at least some of one or more of the specific users with content to promote interaction between the specific online social network users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.