Establishing communications between devices within a mobile ad hoc network based on user attributes

摘要

A mobile ad hoc network may be established between a plurality of devices that have common attributes. The attributes may, for example, be working for the same company, belonging to the same organization or attending the same school. Information about common attribute devices may be progressively shared, using a bucket brigade technique of sharing information between in-range devices. Status information about the devices in the network may be similarly shared in a bucket brigade fashion. Thus, the network is dynamic in the sense that at any given time, it may be determined whether any given device in the network is active. Moreover, the links are established between a manageable number of devices defined by having common attributes with one another.