Establishing connectivity between user devices

A computer system for establishing connectivity between user devices, comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• computer program instructions, the computer program instructions being stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by the one or more computer processors, and the computer program instructions including instructions to:
• broadcast a message to running processes on an operating system of a first user device to indicate that a requesting application is looking for a live connection channel to attempt discovery with a second user device as a part of ascertaining virtual proximity of the first user device with the second user device;
• receive a response from a live connection channel;
• and
• verifying a pairing, between the first and second user device, via the responding live connection channel to confirm a virtual proximity of the second user device with the first user device, wherein the pairing includes broadcasting one or more pairing codes and communicating information for establishing a subsequent connection between the first and second user devices via future requests from the requesting application.

A computer program product for establishing connectivity between user devices, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

• broadcast a message to running processes on an operating system of a first user device to indicate that a requesting application is looking for a live connection channel to attempt discovery with a second user device as a part of ascertaining virtual proximity of the first user device with the second user device;
• receive a response from a live connection channel;
• and
• verifying a pairing, between the first and second user device, via the responding live connection channel to confirm a virtual proximity of the second user device with the first user device, wherein the pairing includes broadcasting one or more pairing codes and communicating information for establishing a subsequent connection between the first and second user devices via future requests from the requesting application.