Patent ID: 8315619

Claim:
A communication system in communication with a communication device via a network and which automatically provides differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy, the communication system comprising: a memory which stores social templates, each social template corresponding to a unique social signature comprising a first sensor value range and a second sensor value range other than the first sensor value range and each social template being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; and a server comprising a processor which receives from the communication device sensor data received from a sensor set of the communication device which detects sensor data including a first detected sensor value from a first sensor and a second detected sensor value from a second sensor related to an environment of the communication device, creates a detected social signature from the received sensor data, determines which of the social signatures of the social templates has a greatest correspondence with the created social signature through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and the first and second sensor value ranges of each stored social template, retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence, and provides to at least one member of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template; and a transceiver which receives the sensor data from the sensor set in the communication device, and provides under the control of the processor to at least one of the member of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template, wherein: the first detected sensor value of the sensor data comprises optical information from an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of the environment of the communication device, and the second detected sensor value of the sensor data comprises acoustic information from an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device, and the processor retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range, and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range.