Patent ID: 7424541
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for identifying and introducing mobile device users to one another, wherein mobile device users have been registered by submitting given profile data, comprising: at least one processor; and code executable on the processor (a) for receiving a search query from a first mobile device user, the search query identifying a given business networking intent, (b) based on the search query, for identifying a set of one or more prospects that, with respect to the first mobile device user, are, simultaneously, within: a given intellectual proximity, physical proximity, and temporal proximity, (c) for delivering to the first mobile device user information identifying the set of one or more prospects, the information masking personally identifying information, and (d) in response to receipt of a message from the first mobile device user, taking a given action to enable the first mobile device user to contact a second mobile device user that has been identified from the set of one or more prospects; wherein the search query is received as the first mobile device user is in physical and temporal proximity to the set of one or more contacts, and a determination of whether a given prospect is in a given intellectual proximity to the first mobile device user depends at least in part on whether a given business networking intent of the first mobile device user has been identified by the first mobile device user as being specific or non-specific.