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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
May. 01, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Daniel Abplanalp, Salem, OR (US);
Anthony Pierre Stonefield, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark Aaron Lindner, Superior, CO (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a communication device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a server, etc.) determines one or more current parameters associated with an operating environment of the first UE, and then excludes at least one communication mode from one or more available communication modes to produce a set of communication modes by which a second UE is recommended to contact the first UE. In another embodiment, the communication device selectively recommends communication groups to users of UEs with current operational capabilities similar to characteristics of the recommended communication groups. In another embodiment, a server determines that a threshold number or a threshold percentage of group-members of an existing communication group are friends with a set of users that do not yet belong to the existing communication group, and then recommends that the set of users join the existing communication group.