Social Subnetwork User Addition via Short-Range Wireless
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social networking technologies lack efficient methods for users to discover and add other users to specific social subnetworks using short-range communication, leading to inefficiencies and potential security risks in exchanging contact information.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing short-range wireless communication, such as NFC or Bluetooth, to identify and add users to social subnetworks by exchanging identification data, allowing users to control the visibility and automation of this process through settings and security features, enabling granular content sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional contact information exchange methods are used, then users can add each other to social networks, but the process is time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical contact exchange (typing, copying, pasting contact information) with automatic short-range wireless communication. The system uses NFC or Bluetooth technology to automatically detect, identify, and add users to social networks without manual intervention, thereby significantly reducing the time and effort required for contact information exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service operation where users can automatically discover and add each other to social networks through proximity-based detection. When two users are near each other, the system automatically initiates contact exchange and user addition processes without requiring manual input, making the process rapid and user-friendly.
2Reliability
If contact information is exchanged manually, then users can connect, but security risks and errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual contact information exchange with automated short-range wireless communication systems. This substitution eliminates typing errors, copy-paste mistakes, and information mismatches by using automatic device-to-device communication, thereby significantly improving the accuracy and reliability of contact information exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces short-range wireless communication technology (NFC, Bluetooth) as an intermediary between users. This intermediary automatically handles the contact information exchange process, ensuring accurate data transmission while providing security features that protect user information during the exchange process.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If users have control over data exchange settings, then privacy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by enabling users to control the scope and visibility of their contact information exchange. Users can configure settings to determine which contacts are visible to whom, allowing selective data sharing based on relationships and contexts. This provides privacy control while maintaining the simplicity of automatic exchange within the configured parameters.
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AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques that enable a first user to add a second user to a social subnetwork of the first user's social network. In one example, a method may include discovering a second computing device associated with a second user. A first user associated with a first computing device and the second user may each be associated with a social networking service. The method may include receiving, from the second computing device, identification data associated with the second user. The method may include determining an identifier based at least in part on the identification data received from the second computing device. The identifier may identify the second user in the social networking service. The method may also include sending a request to a remote computing device to associate the second user with the social subnetwork of the first user.