Locative social networking using a mobile device

• US 9,148,760 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2014
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Sai-Ming
• Application Number:
  US14/321,300
• Publication Number:
  US 20140315585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 370/236, 370/338
• 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:

identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a device connected to a network that satisfies a defined condition;

requesting profile data representing a user profile associated with the device;

receiving a message associated with an authorization by the device to send the profile data;

receiving the profile data; and

transmitting to the device other profile data representing a different user profile that is not associated with the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying comprises identifying a mobile device connected to the network that satisfies the defined condition.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying comprises identifying a mobile device connected to the network and associated with a social networking profile of a social networking service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying comprises identifying the device connected to a wireless network that satisfies the defined condition.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the profile data comprises receiving the profile data from the device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the profile data comprises receiving the profile data from a server device of the network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the profile data comprises receiving the profile data via a network device of a wired network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting the profile data comprises requesting the profile data via a wireless access point device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting the profile data comprises requesting the profile data via wireless access point devices.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting the profile data comprises requesting the profile data via a wireless access point device associated with the device, and wherein the device is a mobile device.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

locating a device connected to a network and satisfying a defined condition;

requesting a user profile associated with the device;

receiving a message associated with a permission by the device to send the user profile;

receiving the user profile associated with the device; and

transmitting to the device another user profile that is not associated with the device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the locating the device comprises locating a mobile device connected to the network and satisfying the defined condition.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium storage device of claim 11, wherein the locating the device comprises locating a mobile device associated with a social networking service identity.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the receiving the user profile associated with the device comprises receiving the user profile from the device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the receiving the user profile associated with the device comprises receiving the user profile from a server device.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the requesting the user profile associated with the device is via at least one wireless access point device.

17. A system, comprising:

a memory that stores instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the instructions to at least find a device connected to a network that satisfies a defined condition, request a user profile associated with the device, receive an indication that the device authorized sending of the user profile, receive the user profile associated with the device, and transmit to the device another user profile that is not associated with the device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the device is a mobile device.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the device is a mobile device associated with a social networking service identity.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the user profile is requested via at least one wireless access point device associated with the network.