Automated sensor driven friending

US9025832B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Stephen Latta · Seattle, US
• Relja Markovic · Seattle, US
• Kevin Geisner · Mercer Island, US
• A. Dylan Vance · Redmond, US
• Brian Scott Murphy · Dublin, IE
• Matt Coohill · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 1, 2011
• Grant date: May 5, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 2, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of finding a new social network service friend for a player belonging to a social network service and having a friend group including one or more player-accepted friends includes recognizing the player, automatically identifying an observer within a threshold proximity to the player, and adding the observer to the friend group of the player in the social network service if the observer satisfies a friending criteria of the player.