Peer discovery and connection management based on context sensitive social networks

• US 20090328161A1
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jose P. Puthenkulam, Mic Bowman
• Original Assignee: Jose P. Puthenkulam, Mic Bowman
• Inventors: Bowman, Mic, Puthenkulam, Jose P.
• Application Number:
  US12/584,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20090328161A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1072 Discovery involving ranked list compilation of candidate peers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

In a method for automatically filtering communications, a networking request from an initiating party on an initiating communication device is received. The networking request pertains to a request for communication between the initiating communication device and a recipient communication device of a user over a communication channel. A determination is made of whether the communication channel to be used for the communication matches a communication channel for a previous communication between the initiating party and the user. It is automatically determined whether to grant the networking request, based at least in part on the determination of whether the communication channel for the communication matches the communication channel for the previous communication between the initiating party and the user. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method for responding a networking request, comprising:

receiving, by a communication device representing a user, a networking request from an initiating party on an initiating communication device to establish a connection between the initiating party and the user;

identifying the identity of the initiating party; and

responding the network request according to a dynamic social network model to either grant or deny the networking request.