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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:
Mar. 15, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2009
Applicants:

Anupriya Ankolekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dennis Matthews Wilkinson, Los Altos, CA (US);

Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Gabor Janos Szabo, Belmont, CA (US);

Fang Wu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anupriya Ankolekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dennis Matthews Wilkinson, Los Altos, CA (US);

Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Gabor Janos Szabo, Belmont, CA (US);

Fang Wu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 8/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 8/186 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 8/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for social networking of mobile devices based upon telephone numbers of the mobile devices includes receiving user profile information and telephone numbers of contacts from a plurality of users' mobile devices; at least one of creating and updating respective user profiles based upon the telephone numbers of the users' mobile devices and the received profile information; identifying relationships among the users based at least upon the contacts contained in the contacts information; and establishing a social network group including at least two of the users based upon the identified relationships among the users.


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