PEER DISCOVERY AND CONNECTION MANAGEMENT BASED ON CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOCIAL NETWORKS

• US 20110099274A1
• Filed: 12/23/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jose P. Puthenkulam, Mic Bowman
• Original Assignee: Jose P. Puthenkulam, Mic Bowman
• Inventors: Puthenkulam, Jose P., Bowman, Mic
• Granted Patent: US 8,868,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• 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 computer-implemented method for automatically filtering communication, the method comprising:

receiving a request for communication over a communication channel at a recipient communication device from an initiating party using an initiating communication device;

in response to receiving the request for communication, automatically determining whether the initiating party is already recognized as a contact of a user of the recipient communication device; and

automatically denying the request for communication in response to a determination that the initiating party is not a known contact of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the request for communication comprises a telephone call.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the request for communication comprises an instant messaging request.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

monitoring prior communications between the recipient and a plurality of contacts; and

generating a social networking model for the recipient based on results of monitoring the prior communications.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

dynamically updating the social networking model for the recipient by updating statistics for the prior communications.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein

automatically determining whether the initiating party is already recognized as the contact of the user of the recipient communication device comprises:

retrieving the social networking model for the recipient; and

determining whether the contact appears in the social networking model for the recipient.

7. A computer program product comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium; and

instructions in the computer-readable storage medium, wherein the instructions, when executed in a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request for communication over a communication channel at a recipient communication device from an initiating party using an initiating communication device;

in response to receiving the request for communication, automatically determining whether the initiating party is already recognized as a contact of a user of the recipient communication device; and

automatically denying the request for communication in response to a determination that the initiating party is not a known contact of the user.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein

the request for communication comprises a telephone call.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein

the request for communication comprises an instant messaging request.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions further cause the processing system to perform operations comprising:

monitoring prior communications between the recipient and a plurality of contacts; and

generating a social networking model for the recipient based on results of monitoring the prior communications.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the processing system to perform operations comprising:

dynamically updating the social networking model for the recipient by updating statistics for the prior communications.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein

automatically determining whether the initiating party is already recognized as the contact of the user of the recipient communication device comprises:

retrieving the social networking model for the recipient; and

determining whether the contact appears in the social networking model for the recipient.

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory comprising instructions to execute on the processor, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request for communication over a communication channel at a recipient communication device from an initiating party using an initiating communication device;

in response to receiving the request for communication, automatically determining whether the initiating party is already recognized as a contact of a user of the recipient communication device; and

automatically denying the request for communication in response to a determination that the initiating party is not a known contact of the user.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein

the communication comprises a telephone call.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein

the communication comprises an instant messaging request.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

monitoring prior communications between the recipient and a plurality of contacts; and

generating a social networking model for the recipient based on results of monitoring the prior communications.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

dynamically updating the social networking model for the recipient by updating statistics for the prior communications.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein

automatically determining whether the initiating party is already recognized as the contact of the user of the recipient communication device comprises:

retrieving the social networking model for the recipient; and

determining whether the contact appears in the social networking model for the recipient.