Patent ID: 8311523
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A server in communication with a communication device via a network and which automatically provides differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy, the server comprising: a memory which stores social templates, each social template corresponding to a unique social signature comprising a first sensor value range and a second sensor value range other than the first sensor value range and each social template being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; a processor which receives from the communication device sensor data received from a sensor set of the communication device which detects sensor data including a first detected sensor value comprising optical information detected by an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of an environment of the communication device and a second detected sensor value comprising acoustic information detected by an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device, creates a detected social signature from the received sensor data, determines which of the social signatures of the social templates has a greatest correspondence with the created social signature through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and the first and second sensor value ranges of each stored social template, retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence and having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range, and provides to at least one member of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template; and a transceiver which receives the sensor data from the sensor set in the communication device, and provides under the control of the processor to at least one of the members of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template.