Patent ID: 9053518
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a first computing device of a first user and using at least one short-range wireless communication channel, a second computing device of a second user, wherein the first user and the second user are each associated with a social networking service, wherein a social network associated with the first user comprises a plurality of social subnetworks, and wherein the second computing device is in proximity to the first computing device within a range of the at least one short-range wireless communication channel; receiving, by the first computing device and from the second computing device using the at least one short-range wireless communication channel, identification data of the second user; determining, by the first computing device, an identifier of the second user based at least in part on the identification data received from the second computing device, wherein the identifier identifies the second user in the social networking service; receiving, by the first computing device, user input of one or more selected social subnetworks in which to include the second user, the one or more selected social subnetworks being from amongst the plurality of social subnetworks of the first user, wherein the one or more social subnetworks each respectively comprise a collection of users in the social networking service; and sending, to a remote computing device of the social networking service, a request to associate the second user with the one or more selected social subnetworks of the first user.