Enhancing face-to-face communication
First Claim
1. A method comprisingat a mobile wireless device that has a device identifier, is located in a meeting venue, and communicates with a server through one or more wireless access points associated with the meeting venue,receiving, from one of the access points, access point information that identifies the access point, andsending information including the device identifier to the access point.
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Abstract
A mobile wireless device has a device identifier, is located in a meeting venue, and communicates with a server through one or more wireless access points associated with the meeting venue. The device receives, from one of the access points, access point information that identifies the access point, and sends information including the device identifier to the access point.
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58 Claims
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1. A method comprising
at a mobile wireless device that has a device identifier, is located in a meeting venue, and communicates with a server through one or more wireless access points associated with the meeting venue, receiving, from one of the access points, access point information that identifies the access point, and sending information including the device identifier to the access point.
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12. A system comprising
at least one access point, in communication with a server, to receive transmissions from mobile wireless devices, and at least one mobile wireless device that has a device identifier to receive, from the access point, access point information that identifies the access point, and at a time assigned to the device, send information, including the device identifier, to the access point.
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14. A system comprising
a server and a device configured to synchronize a database maintained on the server and on the device by: -
at a first one of the server or the device, updating at least a portion of the database, at the second one of the server or the device, updating at least a portion of the database according to a transaction received from the first one of the server or the device.
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15. A method comprising,
in a mobile wireless device, wirelessly detecting a presence of a second wireless device, receiving information wirelessly from the second device, and displaying information that is selected based on the information received from the second device.
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22. A method comprising
when a wireless mobile device associated with a user receives information from a second device that describes a user of the second device, determining that a part of the information matches information that describes people of interest to the user of the first device, and making the user of the first device aware of the determination.
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30. A method comprising
identifying a group of users of mobile wireless devices, and providing to each device, information that its user belongs to the group.
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33. A method comprising
on a first mobile wireless device, storing data that represents an object, identifies an owner of the object, and identifies privileges of the owner to control a use of the object.
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37. A method comprising
determining that people having a set of properties responded to a promotion, determining that a user of a device has properties in common with the set of properties, and sending data representing the promotion to the device.
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40. A method comprising
using a first method of communication, sending information from a beacon to a device identifying a location of the beacon, and using a second method of communication, receiving information from the device including the location of the beacon, and sending information to the device based on the location.
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41. The method of claim 41 in which the information based on the location includes a survey.
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42. A method comprising
enabling an organizer of an event to identify, to a server, a first user and a second user of mobile wireless devices that are carried by the users during the event, communicating messages from the server to the devices that facilitate a meeting of the two users.
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43. A method comprising,
based on information about attendees of an event, adjusting a schedule of sessions of the event and communicating the adjustments of the schedule to mobile wireless devices carried by the attendees at the event.
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52. A method comprising
defining a set of items to be evaluated by participants at an event, communicating subsets of the items to mobile wireless devices associated with the participants at the event, each item being communicated to at least one of the devices, enabling each user to use his device to evaluate the items in the subset communicated the user'"'"'s device, and combining the evaluations to evaluate all the items in the set.
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54. A method comprising
receiving first information about an attendee at an event that has been provided directly by the attendee and second information about the attendee that has been collected by a mobile wireless device assigned to the attendee with respect to the event, and based on the information, determining that the person is a potential customer.
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57. A system comprising
a wireless network installed at a venue, and mobile wireless devices to receive information over the network, the information being divided into categories, in which a category of information to be received by a first device is different from a category of information to be received by a second device, and depends on a categorization of attendees at the venue to which the devices are to be assigned.
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