Patent ID: 8977243
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for facilitating managed exchanges of information between contacts following a face-to-face interaction between the contacts, the apparatus comprising: an application server providing a network service that is accessible through one or more client systems communicatively coupled to the application server via a network; and a data storage device storing a personal information database that is maintained by the application server, the personal information database including a plurality of user accounts respectively associated with a plurality of communication devices, each user account including a unique identification for the communication device respectively associated with the user account, a set of user information, and a plurality of relationship levels each associated with a respective subset of the set of user information of the user account that is available to be shared, and wherein any first communication device of the plurality of communication devices is configured to perform a one-to-one wireless exchange with any second communication device of the plurality of communication devices by wirelessly transmitting the unique identification for the first communication device to the second communication device and receiving the unique identification for the second communication device wirelessly transmitted by the second communication device in response to a mutually-timed activation of the first and second communication devices, wherein the application server operates to, in response to receiving a notification that the first communication device has received the unique identification for the second communication device and, in association with the notification, a specification of one of the relationship levels included within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, access the personal information database to establish an association within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device between the unique identification for the second communication device and the specified relationship level, and wherein the network service, in response to receiving a request, from one of the client systems being operated in association with the user account respectively associated with the second communication device, for the set of user information of the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, operates to return the respective subset of the set of user information for the user account respectively associated with the first communication device associated with the indicated relationship level.