Patent ID: 8743145

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive data; a processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor; a module maintained in the memory and executed on the processor to: receive a transmission related to an object in a vicinity of the apparatus, the transmission comprising an identifier (ID) corresponding to the object, wherein the object represents a different user, determine specific information related to the object based, at least in part, on the transmission, transmit at least part of the specific information and the ID to a remote computing device to request the remote computing device to: determine an identity of the object that represents the different user, identify an outbound permission rule of the different user based on the ID, and determine a permission rule determined based, at least in part, on finding a commonality between the outbound permission rule of the different user and an inbound permission rule of the user, and receive additional information related to the object from the remote computing device based, at least in part, on the permission rule; and a transparent or semi-transparent interface interposed between a user of the apparatus and the object, the interface comprising: a visual overlay component to display, as a visual overlay on the interface, the specific information and the additional information related to the object while the object is at least partially within a real-world field of view of the user.