Patent ID: 8340707
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for a first wireless communication unit (WCU) user to locate or connect with one or more other WCU users encountered in proximity, comprising: storing a user-defined profile locally in the first WCU, wherein said profile comprises descriptive information of the user of the first WCU or an identifier based on which said descriptive information can be separately retrieved so that the user of the first WCU can be visually identified through said profile by other WCU users; the first WCU handshaking with other WCU's by wirelessly transferring its profile to other WCU's and receiving profiles from other WCU's in proximity; displaying to the user of the first WCU a discovery result comprising the received profiles of the WCU's in the proximity; initiating a connection attempt from the first WCU to a second WCU with profile chosen by the user of the first WCU from among the discovery result.