Facilitation of social interactions

• US 9,344,518 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2013
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GlobalFoundries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GlobalFoundries, Inc.
• Inventors: Kau, Christian B., Kumar, Anuj, Smith, Barton A.
• Primary Examiner(s): King, John B
• Application Number:
  US13/891,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20140338002A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 726 26- 28, 707/999.003, 707/999.009
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Embodiments relate to facilitating social interactions. An aspect includes determining that a first communications device is in communicative contact with a second communications device, identifying at least one artifact relating to a user of the first communications device, and searching at least one database for information about a user of the second communications device that is in common with the user of the first communications device with respect to the artifact. Also, results of the searching are provided as a topic of conversation to the first communications device.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a mobile communications device having a memory storing computer readable computer instructions, the memory storing a user profile of a user of the mobile communications device;

a processor for executing the computer readable instructions and;

a short-range wireless transceiver coupled to the mobile communications device;

wherein the processor executes the computer readable instructions to perform a method, comprising;

generating the profile, comprising;

identifying artifacts from interactions of the user, via the mobile communications device, with electronic data sources and users of other communications devices over a network; and

ranking the artifacts by importance as defined by frequency of interactions between the mobile communications device and the electronic data sources;

determining, via the short-range wireless transceiver over a wirless network, that another communications device is in communicative contact with the mobile communications device, the determining comprising receiving a communication from the other communications device that includes an identification of a user of the other communications device;

selecting, from the profile in the memory, at least one of the artifacts relating to the user of the mobile communications device;

searching, over a network using the identifier of the user of the other communications device, at least one database for information about the user of the other communications device that is in common with the user of the mobile communications device with respect to the artifact;

prioritizing results of the searching based on a recency of occurrence of each of the results in the database; and

providing a prioritized listing of the results of the searching, as topics of conversation, to the mobile communications device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the identifying artifacts from interactions of the user, via the mobile communications device, identifying artifacts from interactions of the user, the identifying initiated absent input from the user of the mobile communications device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the identifying artifacts includes searching an access-restricted electronic data source for information about the user of the mobile communications device, the method further comprising:

receiving authorization from the user of the mobile communications device to search the access-restricted electronic data source;

creating the profile for the user of the mobile communications device; and

storing retrieved information from the access-restricted electronic data source, including the artifacts, in the profile.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises:

periodically searching the access-restricted electronic data source for new and changed information about the user of the mobile communications device; and

updating the profile with results of the periodic searching.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the access-restricted electronic data source comprises a social media network account of the user of the mobile communications device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the artifacts contain topics that are extracted from documents of the social media network account and represent at least one of wall posts and image captions, and wherein the searching at least one database further includes searching for news articles associated with the extracted topics.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification of the other communications device includes an electronic business card of the user of the other communications device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein searching the at least one database for information about a user of the other communications device includes searching a social media account of the user and extracting artifacts from content of the social media account of the second user.