The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2011
Kari Juhani Leppänen, Helsinki, FI;
Markku Tapio Turunen, Helsinki, FI;
Niko Tapani Kiukkonen, Veikkola, FI;
Eero Jari Juhani Sillasto, Helsinki, FI;
Kari Juhani Leppänen, Helsinki, FI;
Markku Tapio Turunen, Helsinki, FI;
Niko Tapani Kiukkonen, Veikkola, FI;
Eero Jari Juhani Sillasto, Helsinki, FI;
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An approach is provided for methods and apparatus for efficiently and effectively determining communities of interest for a user, for use over an ad-hoc mesh network, based on context information associated with user devices. Context information of a device is accessed. The context information is processed to determine one or more themes associated with the context information. One or more communities of interest relating to the one or more themes are determined, the one or more communities of interest having respective community identifiers corresponding therewith. The device is associated with at least one of the communities of interest relating to the one or more themes, based at least in part on the corresponding community identifiers, for accessing awareness information related to one or more of the communities of interest associated with the device. Further, the availability of at least one of the communities of interest associated with the device can be identified via the ad-hoc mesh network, based at least in part on the corresponding community identifiers, and awareness information can be accessed, based at least in part on the availability of the at least one of the communities of interest associated with the device.