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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:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:

Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Akhilesh Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04W 76/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/206 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01); H04W 76/002 (2013.01);
Abstract

A first mobile device may be configured to facilitate context-aware, graph-based interactions. For example, the first mobile device receives a first communication from a second mobile device. The first communication includes a second member identifier of a second member of the social networking service. The second member identifier may be associated with the second mobile device. In response to the receiving of the first communication, the first mobile device may determine, based on the second member identifier, that the second member is one of a plurality of members of the social networking service. The first mobile device may facilitate the establishing of the wireless peer-to-peer connection with the second mobile device based on the determining that that the second member is one of the plurality of members of the social networking service.


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