US 2014/0280544 A1 · Dynamically Managing Social Networking Groups

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically managing social networking groups according to embodiments of the present invention are provided. A particular embodiment includes detecting a predetermined number of user devices within a specified physical area; and in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices within the specified physical area, creating a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area. Another embodiment includes detecting a predetermined number of user devices exiting a specified physical area, each user device associated with a user belonging to a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area; and in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices exiting the specified physical area, destroying the social networking group after a duration following the detection of the predetermined number of users of the social networking group exiting the specified physical area.

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Dependent claims

A method of dynamically managing social networking groups, the method comprising:

detecting, by an allocation controller, a predetermined number of user devices within a specified physical area;
and
in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices within the specified physical area, creating, by the allocation controller, a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/832,546Filed 15 Mar 2013

Priority

14 Mar 2013

Published

18 Sep 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services
H04L 51/222
Monitoring or handling of messages: using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot…
H04L 51/52
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: for…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

Dynamically Managing Social Networking Groups

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