Exchanging user information with other physically proximate users
OwnerDaniel L. Coffinginventor
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Abstract
A wireless face-to-face bilateral communication method between at least two users of a service provider, each having a token device, and at least one having a user-defined profile, comprising: between a sending token device and a receiving token device, transmitting unique electronic transaction tokens between a consenting sending party and a consenting or optionally consenting receiving party wherein said transaction tokens may be used for single use, party-approved after-contact, computer-network facilitated access to each other's profile.
Claims20
An apparatus for controlling access based on transfer of information, the apparatus comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to:
- receive, from a transferor device, an authentication token that uniquely identifies the transferor device;
- analyze the authentication token in comparison to information about the transferor device in a data structure to verify that the authentication token corresponds to the transferor device;
- and
- change a status of the transferor device from being unauthorized to access a resource to being authorized to access the resource automatically in response to verifying that the authentication token corresponds to the transferor device.
A method for controlling access based on transfer of information, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a transferor device, an authentication token that uniquely identifies the transferor device;
- analyzing the authentication token in comparison to information about the transferor device in a data structure to verify that the authentication token corresponds to the transferor device;
- and
- changing a status of the transferor device from being unauthorized to access a resource to being authorized to access the resource automatically in response to verifying that the authentication token corresponds to the transferor device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.