Patent ID: 8205093

Claim:
A method for determining whether a proximately located person is authorized to receive information, the method comprising: detecting, at a first authorization device, a second authorization device, wherein the first authorization device is operative to maintain first authorization data and wherein the second authorization device is associated with the proximately located person and is operative to maintain second authorization data indicating whether the proximately located person is authorized to receive the information; receiving, at the first authorization device, the second authorization data from the second authorization device, wherein the second authorization data indicates first topics of data the proximately located person is authorized to receive, wherein the first topics comprise a list of confidentiality agreements signed by the proximately located person indicating the data the proximately located person is authorized to receive; comparing, at the first authorization device, the first authorization data to the second authorization data to determine any matches between the first authorization data and second authorization data; in response to determining a match between the first authorization data and the second authorization data, displaying at the first authorization device, a first indication for each of the first topics of the second authorization data that matches the first authorization data, wherein the first indication displayed at the first authorization device identifies each of the first topics of the second authorization data that matches the first authorization data; and in response to determining no matches between the first authorization data and the second authorization data, displaying, at the first authorization data, a second indication that none of the second authorization data matches the first authorization data.