Facilitating social networking service connections via an ad hoc peer-to-peer network of mobile devices

摘要

A first mobile device may be configured to facilitate context-aware, graph-based interactions. For example, the first mobile device receives a first communication from a second mobile device. The first communication includes a second member identifier of a second member of the social networking service. The second member identifier may be associated with the second mobile device. In response to the receiving of the first communication, the first mobile device may determine, based on the second member identifier, that the second member is one of a plurality of members of the social networking service. The first mobile device may facilitate the establishing of the wireless peer-to-peer connection with the second mobile device based on the determining that that the second member is one of the plurality of members of the social networking service.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
at a first mobile device associated with a first member identifier of a first member of a social networking service (SNS), receiving a first communication from a second mobile device via a transceiver of the first mobile device, the first communication including a second member identifier of a second member of the SNS, the second member identifier being associated with the second mobile device, the first communication being broadcast by the second mobile device and indicating that the second mobile device is available to establish one or more wireless peer-to-peer connections between the second mobile device and one or more other mobile devices; broadcasting, via the transceiver of the first mobile device, a second communication to the one or more other mobile devices including the second mobile device, the second communication including the first member identifier of the first member of the SNS, the second communication indicating that the first mobile device is available to establish one or more wireless peer-to-peer connections between the first mobile device and the one or more other mobile devices including the second mobile device; in response to the receiving of the first communication, determining, based on the second member identifier, that the second member is one of a plurality of members of the SNS; facilitating an establishing of a wireless peer-to-peer connection with the second mobile device based on the determining that that the second member is one of the plurality of members of the SNS; and displaying, in a user interface of the first mobile device, one or more member identifiers to indicate one or more established wireless peer-to-peer connections between the first mobile device and other mobile devices, the one or more established wireless peer-to-peer connections including the wireless peer-to-peer connection with the second mobile device, the displaying, of the second member identifier representing the wireless peer-to-peer connection with the second mobile device.