Distance-Dependent or User-Dependent Data Exchange Between Wireless Communication Devices
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorYael Maguire
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes sending, by a first wireless device associated with a first user, first data such that the first data are only available to one or more second wireless devices respectively associated with one or more second users and within a first distance from the first wireless device. The method further includes sending, by the first wireless device associated with the first user, second data such that the second data are only available to one or more third wireless devices respectively associated with one or more third users and within a second distance from the first wireless device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- specifying a plurality of data;
- for each of the data, specifying one or more users authorized to receive the data;
- and
- sending, by a first wireless device associated with a first user, first data such that the first data are only available to one or more second wireless devices respectively associated with one or more second users authorized to receive the first data.
One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
- specify a plurality of data;
- for each of the data, specify one or more users authorized to receive the data;
- and
- send, by a first wireless device associated with a first user, first data such that the first data are only available to one or more second wireless devices respectively associated with one or more second users authorized to receive the first data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.