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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
May. 05, 2005
Applicants:
Nathan Norfleet Eagle, Boston, MA (US);
Alex Paul Pentland, Lexington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Nathan Norfleet Eagle, Boston, MA (US);
Alex Paul Pentland, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Portable communication devices, such as Bluetooth enabled cellular phones, communicate with and identify like devices that are nearby, and send notification messages to a remote server. When a notification message is received at the server identifying two devices that have come within range of one another, the server compares the profile data associated with each of the two identified devices and facilitates communications between the devices when appropriate.