Locative social networking using a mobile device

• US 9,842,226 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• 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:
  US14/830,268
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356318A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: 370236
• 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 that comprises a processor, a first request to a first mobile device connected to a wireless local area network, wherein the first request comprises a first permission to receive first data;

receiving, by the system, the first data based on a first authorization from the first mobile device, wherein the first data comprises first user profile data that represents 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, wherein the second request comprises a second permission to receive second data;

receiving, by the system, the second data based on a second authorization from the second mobile device, wherein the second data comprises second user profile data that represents second profile information about a second user identity; and

generating, by the system, a report based on the first data and the second data, wherein the generating comprises displaying a first hyperlink to the first user profile data that is authorized by the first mobile device via the first authorization and a second hyperlink to the second user profile data that is authorized by the second mobile device via the second authorization.

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

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

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

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the report comprises generating the first hyperlink and generating the second hyperlink.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the report comprises generating age data that represents 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 that represents 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, wherein the third data comprises 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 that represents 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 that comprises 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 a network, receive the data in response to an authorization associated with the mobile device, transmit another request for other data to other mobile device connected to the network, receive the other data in response to other 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 that represents profile information related to a user identity, wherein the other data comprises other user profile data that represents other profile information related to other user identity, wherein the report displays a link to the user profile data that is authorized by the mobile device in response to the authorization, and wherein the report displays another link to the other user profile data that is authorized by the other mobile device in response to the other authorization.

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 link includes a hyperlink to the user profile data and the other link includes another hyperlink 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 that comprises a processor to perform operations comprising:

transmitting a first request for first profile data to a first mobile device connected to a network device of a wireless network, wherein the first profile data represents 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 of the wireless network, wherein the second profile data represents 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 that displays a first hyperlink to the first profile data that is authorized in response to the first authorization from the first mobile device, and displays a second hyperlink to the second profile data that is authorized in response to the second authorization from the second mobile device.

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, wherein the third profile data represents 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, to the first mobile device, advertising data that comprises advertisement content.