Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Organizing location-based social network communities
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Application No.: US15010315Application Date: 2016-01-29
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Publication No.: US10200483B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Hirofumi Nishikawa , Tomohiro Shioya , Kei Sugano , Shoichiro Watanabe
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Robert C. Bunker
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/58 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W4/21

Abstract:
According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for creating a social network service (SNS) community is provided. The method may include receiving a message from a user associated with an SNS. The method may also include determining a location of the received message based on a time and a position associated with the received message. The method may then include identifying at least one device from within a plurality of registered devices having the same location. The method may further include determining at least one device user based on the identified at least one device. The method may also include creating an SNS community based on the user and the determined at least one device user. The method may then include distributing messages between the user and the determined at least one device user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170223118A1 ORGANIZING LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNITIES Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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