Patent ID: 8346863

Claim:
A method of initiating contact based upon automatically shared profile data comprising: automatically wirelessly sending profile information from a sending computing device to a receiving computing device, wherein the sending device and the receiving device are collectively referred to as communication devices; automatically determining, at the receiving device, whether a contact action should be initiated by comparing received profile information with a set of previously established contact rules; upon a negative determination regarding initiating the at least one contact action, the receiving device taking no action, in which case the sending device receives no information from the receiving device responsive to the sending of the profile information, wherein when there is a negative determination regarding initiating the at least one content action, no profile information is ever sent from the receiving device to the sending computing device that is compared to information from the sending device; and upon a positive determination regarding initiating the at least one contact action, the receiving device initiating an interpersonal communication that permits users of the communication devices to communicate with each other, wherein the interpersonal communication is a device assisted communication in which each of the users provides content directed to the other as input to their one of the communication devices, and in which each of the users receives content provided by the other as output from their one of the communication devices.