Patent ID: 9313539
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by an apparatus from a device, one or more captured content items captured by the device and one or more encrypted identifiers of one or more other devices detected as present within a short-range wireless communication range from a location of the device where the one or more captured content items were captured; receiving a request, from one of the one or more other devices to the apparatus, for the one or more captured content items, the request including at least one other identifier; causing, at least in part, a decryption of the one or more encrypted identifiers by the apparatus into one or more decrypted identifiers; determining, by the apparatus, that at least one of the one or more decrypted identifiers includes, at least in part, the at least one other identifier; and processing the one or more decrypted identifiers to determine history information, location information, or a combination thereof, associated with the one or more decrypted identifiers, wherein the history information includes, at least in part, one or more time periods corresponding to a detected presence of the one or more other devices within the short-range wireless communication range, and the location information included, at least in part, one or more geographical distances of the one or more other devices from the device during the detected presence, wherein the one or more encrypted identifiers are associated with the one or more captured content items based, at least in part, on the history information, the location information, or a combination thereof, and wherein the device has no key information to decrypt the one or more encrypted identifiers, and the one or more other devices are anonymous to the device.