In recent years, middleware for mobile social network has attracted the attention of academia, causing thedesign and development of various approaches by researchers. This type of middleware facilitates andmakes more efficient the development process of mobile social networking applications. Furthermore,middleware solutions also abstract the communication process with other applications, allowing theacquisition, persistence and reuse of social context information and location of users, besides providingAPI so that developers can access this information quickly and build new social applications. With a viewto supporting this new trend of research, this paper presents a middleware for mobile social networkingcalled My-Direct which makes use of Wi-Fi Direct technology together with the Bluetooth, aiming toprovide flexible communication between the nodes of the mobile social network. Along with My-Direct alsowas created a mechanism for user privacy based on information available on his mobile device.
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