Patent ID: 7249182
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a user's short-range wireless terminal for sharing the user's personal profile with an inquiring wireless terminal in a wireless network, comprising: entering the user's personal profile in a service discovery protocol (SDP) database of the user's short-range wireless terminal; editing the personal profile while in the user's short-range wireless terminal in response to the user's input wherein a form of the user's personal profile is entered in the service discovery protocol (SDP) database; and transmitting the user's personal profile from the user's short-range wireless terminal to an inquiring wireless terminal wherein the user's short-range wireless terminal shares general information in the user's personal profile with the inquiring wireless terminal, if their respective user profiles have a first level of close matching, and the user's short-range wireless terminal shares detailed, private information in the user's profile with the inquiring wireless terminal, if their respective user profiles are determined to have a second level of close matching, which is closer than the first level.