Patent Document ID: 8843518
Application ID: 13551384
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising steps of: storing, in a mobile communications device of a first person, an image of a second person obtained using a camera coupled with the mobile communications device, wherein the first person and the second person each belong to at least one of a plurality of social networking services and each of the first and second persons has a number of existing social connections thereon, wherein the first person and the second person have one of the social networking services in common, and the second person maintains a profile on the common social networking service that includes a profile image of the second person and personal information regarding the second person; automatically selecting, via the mobile communications device, a subset of connections from a database of existing social connections of the first person among the plurality of social networking services, based on available information regarding the second person, the selected subset of connections being a portion but not all of the database of existing social connections of the first person; from the mobile communications device, initiating a search of profiles, on one or more of the social networking services, for the selected subset of connections to determine whether a profile of an existing social connection on the one or more of the social networking services contains an image similar to the stored image of the second person; and upon determining from the search that a profile on one of the social networking services contains an image similar to the stored image of the second person, providing for the first person via the mobile communications device, personal information included in the profile containing the similar image from the one social networking service, wherein the available information regarding the second person includes an identifier of a location of where the image of the second person was obtained.