Patent ID: 9396498
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for using social-networking accounts to identify characteristics that strangers share in common, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: facilitating registration for a service capable of determining whether strangers who come in physical proximity to one another share one or more characteristics in common; as part of the registration for the service, obtaining permission for the service to access at least a portion of a plurality of social-networking accounts associated with each of the strangers; subsequent to the registration for the service, determining that the strangers registered for the service have come in physical proximity to one another; in response to the determination that the strangers registered for the service have come in physical proximity to one another, providing the service to the strangers by: