Patent ID: 7949359

Claim:
A method for a wireless communications unit (WCU) to connect one first user with another target WCU user who has the same intention to connect within a proximity, comprising the steps of: storing a user-defined profile and/or profile matching rules in the first WCU; broadcasting a signal at the first user's discretionary control, said signal comprising: (1) a predefined code representing a connection intention inquiry after the first user has seen the target user; (2) said profile and/or profile matching rules; receiving another signal with the same predefined code and with another profile and/or profile matching rules within the proximity directly from another WCU without going through any intermediate device; extracting the profile and/or profile matching rules from the received signal; comparing the received profile and/or profile matching rules with the counterpart stored in the first WCU and determining if there is a match; discarding any non-matching received signal as if it was not received, or notifying the first WCU user of the mismatch when receiving a non-match signal; determining and notifying the first user of the distance and/or direction reference of the source of the received signal if there is a match.