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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2012
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Jae Park, Bellevue, WA (US);
Karen Luk, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Connolly, Seattle, WA (US);
Sogol Malekzadeh, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Skovron, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthias Baer, Seattle, WA (US);
Monica Gonzalez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Aroner, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for exchanging information between two communication devices includes communicating first identity information from a first communication device to a second communication device over a short-range communication link in response to an event. A second identity is received from the second communication device over the short-range communication link. The first identity information identifies a user of the first communication device and the second identity information identifies a user of the second communication device. Based on the first and second identity information, information is obtained specifying at least one attribute of the first and second users that they have in common.