US 2016/0261546 A1 · BUILDING A PROXIMATE SOCIAL NETWORKING DATABASE BASED ON RELATIVE DISTANCE PROFILING OF TWO OR MORE OPERABLY COUPLED COMPUTERS

Abstract

Computer systems and methods for generating a social network of users based on the users' devices being operably coupled are discussed herein. Specifically, techniques are described herein to determine the types of relationships between a plurality of users based on telemetry data collected at one or more server computers from the users' operably coupled client devices. The telemetry data describes, among other things, protocol(s) and network interface(s) used to operably couple the client devices, network operations performed by the client devices, and sensory data recorded by the client devices while the devices are operably coupled.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A computer system comprising:

a memory;
one or more processors coupled to the memory, and configured to:
receive a first data set indicating that a first device and a second device are communicatively coupled over a first network for a first amount of time, wherein the first device is used by a first user and the second device is used by a second user;
determine that the first device is within a first proximity to the second device based on the first data set indicating that the first device and the second device are communicatively coupled over the first network;
determine a first type of relationship between the first user and the second user based on the first proximity and the first amount of time.

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A method comprising:

receiving a first data set indicating that a first device and a second device are communicatively coupled over a first network for a first amount of time, wherein the first device is used by a first user and the second device is used by a second user;
determining that the first device is within a first proximity to the second device based on the first data set indicating that the first device and the second device are communicatively coupled over the first network;
determining a first type of relationship between the first user and the second user based on the first proximity and the first amount of time;
wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/046,385Filed 17 Feb 2016

Priority

2 Mar 2015

Published

8 Sep 2016

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

G06Q 30/0267
Targeted advertisements: wireless devices
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
G06Q 10/48
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: using social graphs
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…

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Application62/126,729Us provisional application · filed 2 Mar 2015

Application14/814,720Continuation · filed 31 Jul 2015

Application15/046,385Continuation

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Building a proximate social networking database based on relative distance profiling of two or more operably coupled computers

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Building a proximate social networking database based on relative distance profiling of two or more operably coupled computers

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Abstract

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