Patent ID: 8406691
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of providing wireless communication between user equipments, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving user data and a predefined communication criterion via a software application residing on a first wireless user equipment having at least two communication interfaces, selecting one of the communication interfaces in dependence of the predefined communication criterion, identifying, by using the selected communication interface, wireless user equipments in a proximity of the first user equipment, determining a total number of identified user equipments in the proximity of the first user equipment, and, when the number is below a predetermined value, selecting another communication interface of the two communication interfaces and identifying, by using said another communication interface, wireless user equipments in the proximity of the first user equipment, determining when there is a match between the user data of the first user equipment and user data of a second user equipment of the identified user equipments, and initiating, when a match is determined, wireless communication between the first and the second user equipment, by sending to any of the user equipments a message associated with the match.