LOCATIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING USING A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20150356318A1
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Pollari, Esa Tapani
• Granted Patent: US 9,842,226 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0884 by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity vis-à-vis an authentication entity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for providing a locative social networking service utilizing wireless access point. In some examples, a method performed under control of a mobile device may include connecting to a wireless local area network, finding at least one other mobile device connected to the wireless local area network and satisfying a predetermined condition, and for each found mobile device, requesting a public user profile associated with the found mobile device, in response to the request, receiving the public user profile associated with the found mobile device, and for each found mobile device from which an associated public user profile is received, transmitting to the found mobile device a public user profile associated with the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

sending, by a system comprising a processor, a first request to a first mobile device connected to a wireless local area network, the first request comprising a first permission to receive first data;

receiving, by the system, the first data based on a first authorization from the first mobile device, the first data comprising first user profile data representing first profile information about a first user identity;

sending, by the system, a second request to a second mobile device connected to the wireless local area network, the second request comprising a second permission to receive second data;

receiving, by the system, the second data based on a second authorization from the second mobile device, the second data comprising second user profile data representing second profile information about a second user identity; and

generating, by the system, a report based on the first data and the second data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the first data comprises receiving a uniform resource locator associated with the first user profile data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the first data comprises receiving age data representing an age of the first user identity, or receiving gender data representing a gender of the first user identity.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the first data comprises receiving interest data representing interests associated with the first user identity.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the report comprises generating a first hyperlink to the first user profile data and generating a second hyperlink to the second user profile data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the report comprises generating age data representing respective ages of the first user identity and the second user identity.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the report comprises generating gender data representing respective genders of the first user identity and the second user identity.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, by the system, third data to the first mobile device comprising information about a third user identity.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the sending the third data comprises sending, to the first mobile device, third user profile data representing third profile information about the third user identity.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the sending the third data comprises sending, to the first mobile device, advertising data comprising advertisement content.

11. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, to execute or facilitate execution of the instructions to at least transmit a request for data to a mobile device connected to network, receive the data in response to an authorization associated with the mobile device, transmit another request for other data to another mobile device connected to the network, receive the other data in response to another authorization associated with the other mobile device, and generate a report based on the data and the other data, wherein the data comprises user profile data representing profile information relating to a user identity, and the other data comprises other user profile data representing other profile information relating to another user identity.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the data comprises a network address associated with the user profile data.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the data comprises user identification data representative of identification information associated with the user identity.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the data comprises user interest data representative of interests associated with the user identity.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the report comprises a link to the user profile data and another link to the other user profile data.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the report comprises age data representative of respective ages associated with the user identity and the other user identity.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the report comprises gender data representative of respective genders associated with the user identity and the other user identity.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage device comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

transmitting a first request for first profile data to a first mobile device connected to network device of a wireless network, the first profile data representing first profile information regarding a first user identity;

receiving the first profile data in response to a first authorization from the first mobile device;

transmitting a second request for second profile data to a second mobile device connected to the network device, the second profile data representing second profile information regarding a second user identity;

receiving the second profile data in response to a second authorization from the second mobile device; and

generating a report based on the first profile data and the second profile data.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting third profile data to the first mobile device, the third profile data representing third profile information regarding a third user identity.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting advertising data comprising advertisement content to the first mobile device.