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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2012
Sundar Sivaraman, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Ramprasath Hariharan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Maria M. Sagayaraj, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Narayanadhoss Gopalakrishnan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Rajeswaran Venugopal, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Sundar Sivaraman, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Ramprasath Hariharan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Maria M. Sagayaraj, Tamil Nadu, IN;
NarayanaDhoss Gopalakrishnan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Rajeswaran Venugopal, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods and related systems are presented that relate to establishing communications among individuals connected through social networking services. To obtain the contact information of an encountered connection, a person may take a photo of the connection and provide information indicating how he/she knows the connection. Using the provided information, a subset of the person's connections in the social networking services that he/she belongs to is selected. The photos included in the profiles of the connections in the selected subset are searched and a profile that includes an image with features matching the features of the obtained image is selected. Once a match is found, personal information of the connection is obtained from his/her profile and transmitted to the person. The individuals can establish connection using the obtained personal information.