Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

James Francis Reilly

Toni Peter Strandell

Mikko Antero Nurmi

Ari Aarnio

Markku Tapio Turunen

Jan Otto Blom

Kari Juhani Leppänen

Kimmo Rämö

Brenda Castro

Francis Pak Kwan Tam

Davin Wong

Esko Mikael Kokkonen

Oleksandr Kononenko

Jyri P Salomaa

Matti Johannes Sillanpää

Jaakko Kyrö

Jyri Kullervo Virtanen

Janne Nöyränen

An approach is provided for recognizing one or more people from media content and determining if the one or more people are associated with a social networking service. A request is received from a user equipment specifying a media content. Electronically processing of the media content to recognize one or more people is initiated. It is determined whether the one or more people are associated with a member account of a social networking service. A prompting of the user is initiated with an option based on the determination.

Method and apparatus for determining social networking relationships

An approach is provided for augmented social networking messaging. A message is generated for posting to a social networking service. Address information is determined for a group of one or more devices associated with one or more users. At least one of the one or more users is a non-subscriber to the social networking service. The addressing information is used to send the message to the group. A reply to the message is received from one of the devices of the group. Posting of the reply to the social networking service is initiated.

Method and apparatus for augmented social networking messaging

A method for handling meta data of media objects, comprising creating a media object at a mobile electronic device, obtaining at least one rule defining modifications for positional data relating to at least one geographical area, determining positional data relating to the current geographical position of said mobile electronic device, applying said at least one rule to said positional data to derive positional meta data if said positional data relate to said at least one geographical area, deriving positional meta data from said determined positional data if said determined positional data do not relate to said at least one geographical area, and associating said positional meta data with said media object. An electronic device capable of performing the method is also provided.

Method and device for modifying meta data of media objects

An approach is provided for a publish/subscribe mechanism over an ad-hoc mesh network. A module receives a request to either publish or subscribe to information provided over an ad-hoc mesh network. The module then determines at least one data schema associated with the information, wherein an identification of the information for publication or subscription is based, at least in part, on the at least one data schema.

Method and apparatus for providing a publish/subscribe mechanism over an ad-hoc mesh network

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