Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090325553 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MATCHING SYSTEM - A wireless communications network comprises a server in a central location storing matching profiles for a plurality of users of the network. The matching profile for each user is stored in the server through the user's mobile unit or a secure page on the Internet. Each matching profile is corresponded with a respective mobile unit using the same identification information (ID) of the respective mobile unit utilized for carrying out phone calls. The server has a customizable variable matching algorithm and probes the matching profiles corresponding to the respective mobile units in a cell or group of cells for a match every time a new mobile unit subscribes into the cell or group of cells. When there is a match of matching profiles, the two persons are put in contact or advised of each other through a phone call or other communications method. | 12-31-2009 |
20110217992 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MATCHING SYSTEM - A wireless communications network comprises a server in a central location storing matching profiles for a plurality of users of the network. The matching profile for each user is stored in the server through the user's mobile unit or a secure page on the Internet. Each matching profile is corresponded with a respective mobile unit using the same identification information (ID) of the respective mobile unit utilized for carrying out phone calls. The server has a customizable variable matching algorithm and probes the matching profiles corresponding to the respective mobile units in a cell or group of cells for a match every time a new mobile unit subscribes into the cell or group of cells. When there is a match of matching profiles, the two persons are put in contact or advised of each other through a phone call or other communications method. | 09-08-2011 |
20140019246 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION BASED CONDITIONAL OFFERS - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises sending an end user apparatus a conditional business offer and restricting the possibility of acceptance of said conditional business offer via said end user apparatus to at least said end user apparatus being located within a predefined geographical area (acceptance area). In one embodiment of the invention, said conditional business offer is an auction offer. | 01-16-2014 |
20140045532 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIATING AMONG A PLURALITY OF PROFILES ASSOCIATED WITH USERS POSITIONED IN A SHARED LOCATION - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method is presented for mediating among a plurality of datagrams containing data, settings or preferences to produce ambience settings applicable to a location area that is shared by a plurality of users wherein at least one of said users is associated to one datagram among said plurality of datagrams. | 02-13-2014 |
20140074874 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION-BASED MACHINE-ASSISTED INTERACTIONS - In accordance with one example embodiment of the present invention a method comprises at least partially enabling a set of functionalities and attributes associated to an area for facilitating business transactions, networking activities, or social interactions of users who are within, proximate, or associated, at least provisionally, with said area. | 03-13-2014 |
20140095607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION BASED NETWORKING SESSIONS - In accordance with one example embodiment of the present invention a method comprises at least partially controlling the functionalities of a session area wherein said session area can be either in an active status or in a passive status according to at least one predetermined time window, said session area defining the boundaries for a location based group session event for members of one or more predetermined groups belonging to one or more social networks. | 04-03-2014 |
20140171119 | Method and apparatus for managing attributes and functionalities of predetermined geographical areas. - In accordance with one example embodiment of the present invention a method comprises at least partially enabling a set of functionalities and attributes related to a geofenced session area, wherein at least some of those attributes are associated, at least in part, with analytics pertaining to permanence of users within said geofenced session area. | 06-19-2014 |
20150065176 | Method and apparatus for managing attributes and functionalities of predetermined geographical areas - In accordance with one example embodiment of the present invention a method comprises at least partially enabling a set of functionalities and attributes related to a geofenced session area, wherein at least some of those attributes are associated, at least in part, with analytics pertaining to permanence of users within said geofenced session area. | 03-05-2015 |