METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTING USERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS THROUGH A NETWORK APPLICATION USING SHORT RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

Transforming short range wireless communications interactions into relevant links between nodes in a social graph or other database linking a person or object to other people, objects, locations, events, or content. The inferred links are based upon the proximity, frequency, duration, location, timing, degree, clustering, attributes, or assigned importance of the wireless communications interactions. The inferred links enhance the performance of social networking services where users have the existing wireless communications hardware, as being based upon meaningful and quality metrics.