Patent ID: 9691107
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method executed by a computer system, comprising: selecting, by a first user agent included in a first handheld portable electronic device (HPED) of a first user in the computer system and without knowledge of and instruction from the first user, a second HPED an electronic device of a second user having a second user agent included in the second HPED of the second user; exchanging, between the first user agent in the first HPED and the second user agent in the second HPED in the computer system and without knowledge of and instruction from the first user, personal information about the first user and personal information about the second user; determining, by the first user agent in the first HPED in the computer system and without knowledge of and instruction from the first user, whether a common interest exists between the first user and the second user based on the personal information about the first user and the personal information about the second user; and adding, by the first user agent in the first HPED in the computer system and without knowledge of and instruction from the first user, the second user to a social networking webpage of the first user based on the determining by the first user agent in the first HPED that the common interest exists, wherein the first user agent and the second user agent are intelligent user agents that analyze the personal information to make an intelligent prediction about whether the common interest exists, wherein the first HPED of the first user is pointed at the second user in order to select the second user with the first HPED of the first user.