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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2011
Stephen Latta, Seattle, WA (US);
Relja Markovic, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Geisner, Mercer Island, WA (US);
A. Dylan Vance, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian Scott Murphy, Seattle, WA (US);
Matt Coohill, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen Latta, Seattle, WA (US);
Relja Markovic, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Geisner, Mercer Island, WA (US);
A. Dylan Vance, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian Scott Murphy, Seattle, WA (US);
Matt Coohill, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
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.