Patent ID: 9674698
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: detecting, by a user device, one or more other user devices located in proximity to the user device using near field communication; retrieving, by the user device, at least one key for establishing at least one anonymous communication session among the user device and the one or more other user devices; transmitting, by the user device, the at least one key to the one or more other user devices; transmitting, by the user device, a request for establishing the at least one anonymous communication session to a server, wherein the request specifies an actual communication identifier of the user device and the at least one key, and the server registers the actual communication identifier of the user device and at least one actual communication identifier of at least one of the other user devices that receives the at least one key and accepts the at least one anonymous communication session; and transmitting, by the user device, content to the at least one of the other user devices via the at least one anonymous communication session facilitated by the server, wherein the server does not expose the at least one actual communication identifier to the user device or the actual communication identifier to the at least one of the other user devices.