Method, apparatus and system for social networking

摘要

A method, apparatus and system for social networking is provided. In an embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of mobile devices that can directly connect to each other via a peer-to-peer connection. The devices can additionally connect to a server. The server maintains a profile schema which can be used to generate profiles for users for each of the mobile devices.

主权项

1. An interaction system comprising:
a server; a plurality of mobile devices communicatively coupled to the server over a network, each mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices configured to store a plurality of user profiles, each user profile comprising a plurality of attributes, and corresponding to a profile schema; and the server configured to:
obtain, from a first device of the plurality of mobile devices, a first user profile corresponding to a first profile schema;obtain, from a second device of the plurality of mobile devices, a second user profile that is determined to correspond to the same, first profile schema;determine that the first and second devices of the plurality of mobile devices is within a first geographical service area;compute a conceptual distance between the first and second devices of the plurality of mobile devices based at least in part on the first and second user profiles; cause the first device to render a social map comprising the computed conceptual distance between the first and second devices when the conceptual distance is determined to be within a predetermined threshold; and
provide a service to the first and second devices of the plurality of mobile devices based at least in part on the conceptual distance.