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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Hirofumi Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Tomohiro Shioya, Tokyo, JP;

Kei Sugano, Tokyo, JP;

Shoichiro Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 51/20 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/1044 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02);
Abstract

According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for creating a social network service (SNS) community is provided. The method may include receiving a message from a user associated with an SNS. The method may also include determining a location of the received message based on a time and a position associated with the received message. The method may then include identifying at least one device from within a plurality of registered devices having the same location. The method may further include determining at least one device user based on the identified at least one device. The method may also include creating an SNS community based on the user and the determined at least one device user. The method may then include distributing messages between the user and the determined at least one device user.


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