Managing communications between proximate mobile devices

US10262292B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• INC SQUARE, CO., LTD · JP

Inventors

• Abhay Kumar · Chapra, IN
• Jesse Reiss · San Francisco, US
• Ajit Kalidindi Varma · San Francisco, US
• Matthew Rhodes · Arlington, US
• Richard David Din · Newark, US
• Anthony Bishopric · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2019
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/80
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In some examples, a first device of a first buyer may receive a selection of a first item offered by a selected merchant. The first device may determine whether any second devices are within a threshold distance of the first device. Based on a second device being within the threshold distance, the first device may send, to the second device, a communication for creating a combined order. Receipt of the communication may cause the second device to present, to a second buyer, an interface for creating a combined order. The second buyer may use the second device to select a second item to order from the merchant. At least one of the first device or the second device may send combined order information to a service computing device, which may send the combined order to the merchant and schedule a courier to deliver the ordered items to the buyers.