Patent ID: 8943137
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving from a first user device a message comprising location information indicating a geographic location of the first user device; receiving from the first user device environmental information indicating at least one physical environmental condition in the vicinity of the first user device, as detected by an environmental sensor on the first user device; calculating values representing logical connection strengths between a first user of the first user device and other users, the logical connection strengths based, at least partially, on location information and at least partially on the environmental information, wherein the logical connection strengths each pertain to a different logical connection between the first user and another user; determining, using at least one processor, a first user group to which to add the first user based on the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first group of users containing a plurality of users, including one or more users with whom the first user has not directly communicated; adding the first user to the first user group without causing direct communications between the first user and the one or more users, in the first user group, with whom the first user has not directly communicated; receiving content from the first user device; and transmitting the content to users of the first user group.