Virtual communication techniques

US8769009B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Sameer Maskey · New York, US
• Sara H. Basson · White Plains, US
• Dimitri Kanevsky · Ossining, US
• Tara N. Sainath · Jersey City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 18, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2014
• Expiry date: May 7, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for facilitating communication are provided. The techniques include using a machine-to-machine communication to facilitate communication between one or more human users of a communicator device and a compatible communicator device, wherein using the machine-to-machine communication to facilitate communication between one or more human users comprises initiating a machine-to-machine communication with a compatible communicator device if the device is within the geographic proximity, wherein the machine-to-machine communication incorporates one or more related items from a user profile of each device automatically extracted by the device initiating the machine-to-machine communication, and conducting the machine-to-machine communication in a manner in which the communication can be monitored by the one or more human users.