Patent ID: 8806021

Claim:
A method for automatically creating a social networking service (SNS) session, comprising: generating at and transmitting from a first device a first audio and/or video fingerprint of an audio and/or video event, the first audio and/or video fingerprint having a first predetermined length (T); periodically transmitting, from the first device, a second audio and/or video fingerprint to a server, the second audio and/or video fingerprint having a second predetermined length (t), smaller than the first predetermined length (T), and including data associated with the audio and/or video event that is later in time than data included in the first audio and/or video fingerprint; and joining the SNS session automatically created by the server responsive to receipt, at the server, of a third audio and/or video fingerprint having the first predetermined length (T) from a second device that includes a portion of the first audio and/or video fingerprint or the second audio and/or video fingerprint periodically transmitted from the first device.