EP2531963A2 - Procédé, système et dispositif de négociation de rencontres face à face par la prédiction d'endroits significatifs - Google Patents

Procédé, système et dispositif de négociation de rencontres face à face par la prédiction d'endroits significatifs

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EP2531963A2
EP2531963A2 EP11717730A EP11717730A EP2531963A2 EP 2531963 A2 EP2531963 A2 EP 2531963A2 EP 11717730 A EP11717730 A EP 11717730A EP 11717730 A EP11717730 A EP 11717730A EP 2531963 A2 EP2531963 A2 EP 2531963A2
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Tara Rosenberger Shankar
Aurélien Guillou
Chaochi Chang
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Orange SA
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    • G01C21/3438—Rendez-vous, i.e. searching a destination where several users can meet, and the routes to this destination for these users; Ride sharing, i.e. searching a route such that at least two users can share a vehicle for at least part of the route

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  • the present system relates to initiating meeting, and more specifically to automatically initiating face to face meetings based on real time data of proposed participants' presence location and predictions of the participants' transitions from significant locations, and during the participants' route traversal between locations.
  • a second person the first person's friend, acquaintance, or contact
  • the studio is situated in the same area the first person is passing through on the way to lunch at the above mentioned eatery providing an opportunity for a meeting.
  • the first person e.g., an officer in a manufacturing company needs to have a face to face meeting with the company's field sales representatives in order to discuss important business matters.
  • a meeting is usually difficult to schedule due to everyone's busy schedules.
  • the present system tracks its users in real time and stores that information so as to anticipate and calculate their future paths and routes.
  • Many existing systems and applications such as, Google's Latitude, Loopt, Yahoo's FireEagle, and so on, provide real-time location tracking. Also see “Discovering Personal Paths from Sparse GPS Traces” by Changqing Zhou, Shashi Shekhar, Loren Terveen available through the Internet at Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) address //academic.research. microsoft.com/Paper/4665090.aspx and incorporated herein as if set out in its entirety. Also a GPS may be used to learn significant locations and predict movement.
  • HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • the present system further proposes face to face meetings by providing the participants with a display of a map indicating one or more suitable meeting locations and meeting times.
  • a map indicating the at least one proposed meeting location is displayed on the portable computing devices of all the expected meeting participants.
  • the proposed meeting locations are identified on the displays by drag and drop pushpins. The participants may manipulate this pushpin on the map of the computing device to negotiate an exact meeting location and meeting time.
  • a method of initiating face-to-face meetings among a plurality of participants each of the participants having a portable computing device including a display, the portable computing device is connected to at least one server via a network, the method including the acts of continuously collecting information about presence location for each of the plurality of participants, the presence location is a set of coordinates at which the participant remains for at least a predefined duration; notifying at least two of the participants of their temporal and spatial proximity that provides an opportunity for a face to face meeting; and enabling the at least two of the participants to negotiate a location and time of the face to face meeting.
  • FIG. 1 shows a diagram of the computer architecture of an embodiment of the present system
  • FIG. 2 shows a flowchart diagram of collection of raw data of presence locations in accordance with an embodiment of the present system
  • FIGs. 3a, 3b, 3c are user interfaces illustrating an effect of three situations of different spatial movements of two participants in accordance with an embodiment of the present system
  • FIG. 4 show a flowchart diagram illustrating a sequence of acts in a system initiated face to face meeting proposal in accordance with an embodiment of the present system
  • FIGs. 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d and 5e show user interfaces including a rendering of street level maps showing paths of subject participants including an indication of at least one proposed meeting location according to an embodiment of the present system;
  • FIG. 6 shows a flowchart diagram illustrating the sequence of acts in a subject participant initiated or scheduled face to face meeting proposal in accordance with an embodiment of the present system
  • FIG. 7 shows a flow diagram illustrating the meeting creation sequence in the participant scheduled embodiment of FIG. 6 of the present system
  • FIG. 8 shows a flow diagram illustrating a notification manager in accordance with the present system
  • FIG. 9 shows a diagram of or more computing devices in accordance with an embodiment of the present system. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram of the computer architecture of an embodiment of the present system. As illustrated in FIG. 1 , an embodiment of the present system 10 maybe implemented using two software components.
  • the first component 12 executing on portable computing devices 14, such as, computers, cell phones, PDF, Black Berry devices, etc., used by the participants and the second component 16 executing on one or more servers 18.
  • the participants may be friends, acquaintances, co-workers, etc., using network connected portable computing devices 14.
  • the first component 12 is provided with a user interface rendered on the portable computing devices 14 for operation in accordance with the present system including inviting the participants to face to face meetings, such as those proposed by the system and enable them to answer these invitations.
  • the user interface may present a map which may be used by the participants to negotiate the meeting location of the face to face meeting.
  • a map may be rendered to the users including rendered pushpin(s) that may be draggable over the presented map.
  • draggable what is intended is that the users may move a rendered pushpin such as through a drag-and-drop operation as may be readily appreciated by a person of ordinary skill in the art and as described further herein.
  • FIG. 2 shows a flowchart diagram of collection of raw data of presence locations in accordance with an embodiment of the present system.
  • the first component 12 may continuously collect raw data of presence locations of the portable computing device 14 on which it resides through one or more of a variety of techniques, e.g., based on predefined thresholds, such as, distance, time, velocity or their combination.
  • the presence locations are approximate areas where the individual participant's portable computing device 14 and by extension the individual participant spends an amount of time that equals or exceeds some first predefined threshold, e. g., duration of five minutes.
  • some second predefined threshold such as more than five times, 10 times, etc.
  • the presence location may classify that presence location as a significant location as illustrated in Table 1 , which identifies coordinates of first and second participants as presence or significant locations.
  • the presence and significant locations, as well as meeting locations, which are discussed below, are coordinates, e.g., absolute coordinates on Earth's surface, at a particular time, e.g., universal time. They comprise coordinates defined by measurable values, such as, latitude and longitude, which may be determined using global positioning satellites (GPS), WIFI router, cell phone IDs, etc., as may be readily appreciated by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
  • GPS global positioning satellites
  • WIFI router cell phone IDs
  • the collected raw presence location data may be time stamped and associated with other parameters, such as for indicating a determined locations accuracy, if available, to help with filtering.
  • a locations accuracy may be expressed as a number, indicating a dilution of precision, or a number indicating the highest possible error in distance, such as within three (3) meters.
  • the accuracy of the location may be expressed as a rough indicator of the accuracy determination (e.g., +/- 4%) or a range of accuracy (e.g., within a range of 0 through 3% accurate).
  • the collected raw data of presence location may be stored in a persistent temporary storage on the device 14.
  • the presence location data may be transported using cellular networks or other form of wireless or wired communication to the server 18, such as at certain predefined fixed or variable time intervals.
  • the raw data may be transported in real time by subscription based web service.
  • the transported raw data may be stored in a location history database 20 using a database management system (DBMS).
  • DBMS database management system
  • the presence location data may be clustered, with the purpose of discovering presence locations where individual participants spend significant amounts of time indicating habitual or predictable behavior.
  • the clustering module 24 may use computational algorithms, such as clustering algorithms, e.g., k-means, Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (Db-Smay), TDJ, R-TDJ, etc., known to these skilled in the art, to identify significant locations from among the presence locations.
  • the clustering algorithms may use the historic data of the participants' presence locations to identify significant locations where the participants spend significant time or frequent often, such as visited by the participant more than 10 times and/or the participant stayed at a given location longer than 10 minutes.
  • Another embodiment of the present system may utilize a threshold time range of 2-5 minutes, such as a location where the participant stayed longer than 5 minutes.
  • a threshold time range may be dynamic based on how many time a location is visited. For example, in one embodiment of the present system, an initial threshold may be set at 10 minutes or longer before a location may be considered for clustering into a group of significant locations. However once the participant has visited a location 5 time or more, the threshold may drop to 5 minutes such that prior visits that where shorter than tern minutes may be reconsidered as long as the time visited was 5 minutes or greater.
  • typical significant locations may include the participants' home, work, school, favorite stores, etc. as may be readily appreciated by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
  • threshold based filtering e.g., location accuracy, etc.
  • the clustering result may be a series of pairs of locations and times.
  • unique IDs or tags may be assigned to the discovered clusters.
  • the clustering module 24 may identify significant locations and the transitions between the significant and target locations. Clustering may be utilized to determine whether a certain presence location, represented by a coordinate pair (e.g., latitude, longitude) is part of a cluster and, therefore, may represent a significant location. Clustering of the presence location data assists in the identification of a significant location since GPS data has a sparse nature and because of the inherent error contained in GPS coordinate data. [0032] Due to a participant's repeated or habitual patronage of the significant locations and routes to and between significant locations, as for example determined based on historic information stored in the database 20, the server 18 may predict where and to which other presence location, the participant may go after visiting a significant location. In addition, the present system may predict which route the participant may likely take and may also predict what time the participant will take the predicted route. In accordance with the present system, a route is a path between presence and target locations that participants traverse.
  • a coordinate pair e.g., latitude, longitude
  • a prediction modeling module 26 may deduce transitions from any presence location to a target location, for instance, (I1 ,t1 ) -> (I2,t2)... -> (In, tn). During act 240, these transitions may be fed into a Markov model routine the results of which are probabilities of transitions between places by a specific participant. The prediction by the module 26 of transition by a particular participant between presence and target locations starts with identification of the presence locations where the participant spends a significant amount of time termed herein a significant location. [0034] In accordance with an embodiment of the present system, routes may be predicted by retrieval of several possible routes between the presence location and predicted target destinations.
  • Services available on the Internet such as Google Maps, Mapquest, Microsoft's Bing Maps, etc., as well as other standalone software products may be used to render the routes on the portable computing devices.
  • algorithms may be used to determine which of the plurality of predicted routes is more likely to be taken by the particular participant.
  • a computational algorithm may be applied to the historical raw data of the presence locations for a particular participant in the database 20, to predict that participant's route given the participant's current presence location and time.
  • the server 18 may retrieve static calendar data from enabler services 22, for example, Orange Calendar, Google Calendar, or an other available calendar application.
  • the static calendar data may determine available time slots for use in arranging meetings for multiple participants, as will be discussed below.
  • the enabler services 22 may further comprise the social contacts lists (e.g., one or more databases of contacts), which in accordance with an embodiment of the present system, may be one or more (e.g., such as an aggregation) of contact lists from the portable computing devices (e.g., mobile phones), social networks, e.g., Facebook.com, Linkedln.com, AOL's Instant Messenger, and/or from online services such as Orange address book, etc.
  • the social contacts lists e.g., one or more databases of contacts
  • the portable computing devices e.g., mobile phones
  • social networks e.g., Facebook.com, Linkedln.com, AOL's Instant Messenger
  • Online services such as Orange address book, etc.
  • predicting paths to be taken by the participants including information suggesting the time at which the participants are predicted to take these paths, and tracking the route of the participants in real-time
  • potential regions of predicted temporal and spatial proximity for a meeting location between two or more participants may be suggested. For example, in accordance with the present system, an area where two or more participants are predicted to be within the same timeframe (e.g., within 1 minute of each other, within 5 minutes of each other, within 15 minutes of each other, etc., as may be user determined) may be identified and proposed to the participants for a face to face meeting.
  • the system 10 in accordance with the present system may anticipate/predict occasions when the paths of two or more participants may cross and/or come within a predetermined proximity of each other, and thereby determine when and where (e.g., space and time) the presence locations of selected participants are close enough to suggest a face to face meeting, including in an embodiment of the present system, a meeting location.
  • the present system may facilitate a selection of locations and times, including in an embodiment, a suggestion of location and/or time for a face to face meeting between participants.
  • FIGs. 3a, 3b, 3c are diagrams illustrating an effect of three situations of different spatial movements of two participants where the system 10 may predict crossing of the paths of the participants in accordance with an embodiment of the present system.
  • predictions are initiated by actions of the participants or identified serendipitously by the system based on relationship information, e.g., the address books previously provided by the users to their computing devices.
  • relationship information e.g., the address books previously provided by the users to their computing devices.
  • the first participant is moving from a significant location at point A to a predicted location at point B
  • the second participant is predicted to move from a significant location at point C to a predicted location at point D. Both participants are expected to move within the same time frame.
  • the system 10 makes the first and second participants, or alternatively further participants or observers aware of this predicted future spatial/temporal proximity of the first and second participants to each other.
  • further support may be provided to the participants in negotiating a place for a face to face meeting between the participants.
  • the first participant is in a significant location at point A, and the second participant is predicted to transition from a significant location at point C to a significant location at point D.
  • the present system 10 will make the participants aware of this predicted future spatial/temporal proximity to each other, and will further support them in negotiating a place for their face to face meeting.
  • the first participant is predicted to transition from a significant location at point A to a significant location at point B
  • the second participant is predicted to transition from a significant location at point C to a significant location at point D, within the same timeframe (e.g., within 5 minutes of each other).
  • the present system 10 may make the participants aware of this predicted future spatial/temporal proximity to each other, and will support them in negotiating a place for their face to face meeting.
  • FIG. 4 shows a flowchart diagram illustrating a sequence of acts in a system initiated face to face meeting proposal in accordance with an embodiment of the present system.
  • the system 10 tracks a subject participant's presence location in real time.
  • the real time data identifying the presence locations as well as significant locations and related historical information may be collected from the computing devices 14 (FIG. 1 ) and may be stored on the server 18 (FIG. 1 ) in order to predict meeting locations.
  • the real time data and related historical information may be maintained and/or analyzed on a user mobile device and be shared between mobile device for operation in accordance with this embodiment.
  • a places transition algorithm may be used to process the presence location data collected for each selected participant.
  • the contact participants may be pre-selected using a configurable priority configuration for selecting the one or more contact participants from social contacts lists of the subject participants, as may be retrieved from the enabler services 22 (FIG. 1 ).
  • one or more criteria may be provided for sorting the contacts list, such as, identifying a participant that is identified on the contact list of a participant and that is in close temporal and spatial proximity, etc.
  • the subject participant may be given an option within a user interface rendered on the portable device of selecting, which contact participants he or she would like to see.
  • Possible routes are determined by retrieving several sets of directions from online mapping services, such as Google maps, Mapquest, Microsoft's Bing Maps, etc., using the actual and predicted presence locations as the destination start and end. In accordance with an embodiment of the present system, the possible routes may be selected in an order given by the online mapping service.
  • online mapping services such as Google maps, Mapquest, Microsoft's Bing Maps, etc.
  • a default sorting may provide a sorting order wherein the possible routes are sorted in an order that the possible routes having a shorter time or distance are rendered higher up on a list of possible routes than those possible routes with a longer time or distance.
  • the spatial and temporal proximity threshold for the present system to suggest a meeting may, in accordance with an embodiment, be set at a preset or calculated shape, such as a circle indicated by a radius around a proposed meeting place and/or a preset or calculated amount of time when the subject participants will be at a presence location or be along a predicted route.
  • the preset/calculated radius and/or a preset/calculated amount of time may define an area wherein an overlap radius and/or time exists between subject participants thereby creating an opportunity for suggesting a face to face meeting.
  • the threshold may be a distance representing a real walking/driving distance on a street calculated from directions between a proposed meeting point and the participant's location (predicted or real time).
  • the spatial and/or temporal proximity threshold may be calculated and/or adjusted based on given conditions related to one or more of the subject participants, such as whether one or more of the subject participants is/are changing location at a quicker or slower rate.
  • a subject participant that is moving at a calculated rate e.g., based on a changing GPS coordinate over time
  • 3 miles per hour e.g., a subject participant that is walking
  • a smaller distance threshold e.g., a subject participant that is driving.
  • a subject participant that is driving may be more readily willing to make a short route change to have a face to face meeting than a subject participant that is walking.
  • meeting places may be suggested that minimize or eliminate substantial increases in route distances for subject participants to arrive at a predicted significant location that follows a face to face meeting or proposed meeting of the subject participants (e.g., see FIGs. 5a-5d described herein).
  • a notification is sent to the computing devices 14 of the subject participant or both, the subject and contact participants, indicating coordinates of a proposed face to face meeting location by using a draggable pushpin on the map.
  • the proposed meeting location being in temporal and spatial proximity to the current presence locations and/or predicted routes of both the subject and contact participants.
  • FIGs. 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d show user interfaces (Uls) including a rendering of street level maps that may be rendered on a user device (e.g., a mobile user device) showing paths of subject participants including an indication of at least one proposed meeting location according to an embodiment of the present system.
  • FIG. 5a shows a path of a subject participant including presence locations A, B, and C.
  • the path of the contact participant is predicted to be a transition from a significant location D to the presence location E.
  • the system further specifies that the contact participant will be in a spatial proximity within the same time frame as the subject participant (e.g., within 5 minutes of each other).
  • the circled region F represents temporal and spatial proximity, encompassing a current real-time location of the subject participants.
  • the participants' portable computing devices in an embodiment send presence location information to the server 18.
  • a user interface may be rendered on the subject participants computing device showing an opportunity for a face to face meeting. Should one or more of the subject participants respond within the rendered user interface with an affirmative response to the suggested face to face meeting, a suggested route may be provided to each of the subject participants as discussed further herein.
  • a subject participant may make an inquiry within a user interface of the present system for a face to face meeting with any subject participant or a desired subset of subject participants (e.g., siblings, family, coworkers, friends, etc.) that is identified on one or more contact lists of the subject participant.
  • the server 18 may access the contact lists on the enabler services 22, stored within the portable device of the subject participant and/or otherwise accessible to the server 18 and make predictions on paths to be taken by each of the contacts, determining if the contact participant may be in spatial and temporal proximity, e.g., within 1 ⁇ 4 mile of each other within the next 10 minutes. In this way, both spatial and temporal proximity is being considered in accordance with this embodiment o the present system.
  • the system may further inquire, through the user interface, if the subject participant wants a face to face meeting with a specific contact participant, alternatively the subject participant may request the specific contact participant for a face to face meeting.
  • the system 10 will initiate a rendering on the contact participant's portable computing device, soliciting the contact participant to accept or refuse a face to face meeting with the subject participant.
  • the contact participant accepts the face to face meeting as illustrated in FIG.
  • the system 10 may render on each of the subject participants and the contact participants mobile device, a map with a pushpin Z, or other icon or symbol that may be selected and/or may be predefined to represent a meeting location (e.g., a suggested meeting location), that is within a region of temporal and spatial proximity for both the subject and contact participants.
  • a meeting location e.g., a suggested meeting location
  • the subject and contact participants may negotiate, in real time, the actual location for their face to face meeting by one or more of the subject and contact participants dragging the pushpin on the rendered map.
  • the rendered pushpin on the computing devices 14 on the other one of the subject and one or more contact participants also changes to reflect the changed location.
  • one or more of the subject and contact participants may choose to reject a face to face meeting.
  • the change may be visually reflected in real-time on the other participants computing device display.
  • one participant is dragging the pushpin icon Z to an alternative location different from that proposed by the system 10.
  • the icon is dragged, local public places could be highlighted, with descriptions of the offerings of that place, e. g., Starbucks in Kendall Square.
  • the contact participant may respond by dragging the pushpin to a third different proposed place where they prefer for the meeting to take place.
  • a detailed description of a final negotiated location may be rendered on the map in addition to the rendering of the draggable icon (e.g., pushpin) to indicate the final negotiated location.
  • the detailed description may be rendered directly on the displayed map or may be rendered in a box or window visually linked to the meeting icon Z, within the rendered user interface (e.g., the detailed description may be rendered within a balloon).
  • FIG. 6 shows a flowchart diagram illustrating a sequence of acts in a subject participant initiated or scheduled face to face meeting proposal in accordance with an embodiment of the present system.
  • a subject participant such as an officer of a manufacturing company, may request to have a face to face meeting with one or more contact participants, such as the company's field sales representatives.
  • the subject participant requests or schedules a meeting by selecting a contact participant desired for inclusion in the meeting and an expiration time and date for the system to stop looking for meeting opportunities.
  • the subject participant selects the contact participant from the contact lists 22 such as shown in FIG. 1 and as discussed herein.
  • an application in accordance with the present system may build a list of available timeslots by taking into consideration static calendar data and tracking the real time presence location of all the selected contact participants, and making predictions when they are in significant locations.
  • the present system will dynamically build a map pinpointing the predicted location of all the participants on the map.
  • the system will further calculate a location such the closest location for all the participants.
  • the location may be rendered on the map represented by a draggable pushpin.
  • invitation notices including the map may then be sent to all the participants and displayed on their computing devices 14 (FIG. 1 ).
  • act 618 it may be determined if all the participants have agreed to participate at a particular time slot. If any of the required contact participants have declined the invitation, during act 620 a new time slot may be proposed and if the proposed meeting location is different than previously proposed, a new location of the pushpin may be rendered on the participants' computing devices 14.
  • an application interface may be provided on the participants' computing devices, for them to negotiate the proposed locations and times with each other and accept.
  • the negotiation may be achieved by using a draggable pushpin (see FIGs. 5c and 5d) and/or a slider representing the time of the day (see, FIG. 5e) on the display of the computing devices, to choose a specific place and time to meet.
  • FIG. 5e shows a user interface 540 including a rendering of a street level map showing paths of subject participants including a slider 550 representing a time of the day on the display of the computing devices, to choose a specific place and time to meet.
  • the slider 550 may be utilized to adjust a suggested time to meet including a range of possible times.
  • one or more of the users may manipulate the slider 550 to narrow or broaden a range of meeting times.
  • a position on the slider 550 may be selected (e.g., using a touch screen Ul) to indicate a predicted location 560 for a user and a time corresponding to the selected position on the slider 550 to assist in selecting a meeting time/place.
  • a participant may be suggested a meeting time range of within 20 minutes for a suggested meeting yet the participant may know from other information that he is only available for a time range of 10 minutes since he has an errand to run after than.
  • a participants schedule may be utilized to adjust the suggested time range for a meeting such as when a participant has an appointment scheduled in a calendar application/database available for scrutiny by the present system, such as a calendar application local to the portable computing device 14 (e.g., see, FIGs. 1 and 9) and/or a calendar application/database that is available on the server 18 or other connected server/database, such as available through a cloud connected network as appreciated by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
  • FIG. 7 shows a flow diagram illustrating the meeting creation sequence in the participant scheduled embodiment of FIG. 6 of the present system.
  • the subject participant may log in to the server 18 (FIG. 1 ), select from the social contacts list 22 several contact participants to attend the meeting and specify an expiration date for the prospective meeting, e.g., within one week from now.
  • the user may select a desired time period (e.g., in three days, plus or minus one day) for the meeting.
  • a calendar manager 700 may retrieve the static calendar data for each selected contact participant, merge the retrieved calendars and render the available time slots aggregated across all of their calendars. In this way, the subject participants are enabled to select a timeslot.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates processing performed by the notification manager in detecting and predicting transitions (e.g., routes) of participants between presence locations.
  • the subject participant may create a meeting by entering the contact participants' names, the subject of the meeting, expected meeting length, and its lifespan.
  • the system responds by generating a number of timeslots, i.e., timeslots (1 , 2, n), and submits them to the calendar manager to determine the timeslots during which all entered contact participants are present.
  • a location manager 810 For thus determined timeslots, a location manager 810 provides a notification of a timeslot for a face to face meeting, a map displaying information about the proposed meeting and the meeting's location, subject, duration, and time as for example rendered on a mobile device of participants.
  • one time slot is selected and if current time is greater or equal to the onset time of the timeslot, it is determined during act 718 if the timeslot is to be activated. The determination is performed periodically, for example, every minute. Once activation of the timeslot is determined, during act 722 an invitation to a meeting is sent and during act 724 a response from the participants is accepted.
  • a map with a proposed meeting place closest to the predicted presence locations of the contact participants and optionally their predicted locations during the timeslot is rendered on the computing devices 14 (FIG. 1 ).
  • the subject participant may specify the "serendipitous" setting and allow the system to track their positions dynamically and propose a meeting place and the timeslot when their locations and predicted places/transitions are within some critical spatial and temporal proximity to each other.
  • the participants may receive an invitation in real time inviting them to the face to face meeting. If the invitation is rejected, another invitation may be sent during and/or suggesting a next timeslot until all the timeslots expire or are rejected.
  • the contact participants receive the notifications, maps, and the proposed meeting details, and after accepting a meeting timeslot, may negotiate a meeting place.
  • FIG. 9 shows a device 900 that may correspond to one or more of the device 14 and/or the server 18 of FIG. 1.
  • the device 990 includes a processor 910 operationally coupled to a memory 920, a rendering device 930, such as one or more of a display, speaker, etc., a user input device 970 and a network 980.
  • the memory 920 may be any type of device for storing application data, such as a face to face meeting application in accordance with the present system, as well as other data.
  • the application data and other data are received by the processor 910 for configuring the processor 910 to perform operation acts in accordance with the present system.
  • the processor 910 so configured becomes a special purpose machine particularly suited for performing in accordance with the present system.
  • the operation acts may include controlling the rendering device 930 to render one or more user interfaces, such as a graphical user interface (GUI) in accordance with the present system.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the user input 970 may include a keyboard, mouse, trackball or other devices, including touch sensitive displays, which may be stand alone or be a part of a system, such as part of a personal computer, personal digital assistant, mobile phone, converged device, tablet computer or other rendering device for communicating with the processor 910 via any type of link, such as a wired or wireless link.
  • the user input device 970 is operable for interacting with the processor 910 including interaction within a paradigm of a Ul such as a GUI and/or other elements of the present system, such as provided by user interaction with a computer mouse, etc., as may be readily appreciated by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
  • the rendering device 930 may operate as a touch sensitive display for communicating with the processor 910 and thereby, the rendering device 930 may also operate as a user input device.
  • a user may interact with the processor 910 including interaction within a paradigm of a Ul, such as to support inviting a participant to participate in a face to face meeting, etc.
  • the user device 990, the processor 910, memory 920, rendering device 930 and/or user input device 970 may all or partly be portions of a computer system or other device, and/or be embedded in a portable device, such as a mobile station (MS), mobile telephone, personal computer (PC), personal digital assistant (PDA), tablet computer, converged device such as a smart telephone, etc.
  • MS mobile station
  • PC personal computer
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • the user device 990, corresponding user interfaces and other portions of the system 900 are provided for supporting a face to face meeting.
  • the methods of the present system are particularly suited to be carried out by a computer software program, such program containing modules corresponding to one or more of the acts described and/or envisioned by the present system.
  • Such program may of course be embodied in a computer-readable medium, such as an integrated chip, a peripheral device or memory, such as the memory 920 or other memory coupled to the processor 910.
  • the computer-readable medium and/or memory 920 may be any recordable medium (e.g., RAM, ROM, removable memory, CD-ROM, hard drives, DVD, floppy disks or memory cards) or may be a transmission medium utilizing one or more of radio frequency (RF) coupling, Bluetooth coupling, infrared coupling etc. Any medium known or developed that may store and/or transmit information suitable for use with a computer system may be used as the computer-readable medium and/or memory 920.
  • the memory may correspond to memories available through a cloud computing network.
  • one or more memories may configure the processor 910 to implement the methods, operational acts, and functions disclosed herein.
  • the operation acts may include controlling the rendering device 930 to render elements in a form of a Ul and/or controlling the rendering device 930 to render other information in accordance with the present system.
  • the memories may be implemented as electrical, magnetic or optical memory, or any combination of these or other types of storage devices.
  • the program and/or program portions contained in the memory 920 configure the processor 910 to implement the methods, operational acts, and functions disclosed herein.
  • the term "memory" should be construed broadly enough to encompass any information able to be read from or written to an address in an addressable space accessible by the processor 910. With this definition, information accessible through a network, cloud network, etc., may still be considered within the memory 920, for instance, because the processor 910 may retrieve the information from the network for operation in accordance with the present system.
  • the memory may correspond to memories available through a cloud computing network.
  • the network 980 should be understood to include further network connections to other user devices, systems (e.g., servers), etc., such as the social network contact list 22 shown in FIG. 1. While not shown for purposes of simplifying the following description, it is readily appreciated that the network 980 may include an operable interconnection between processors, memories (e.g., databases), displays and user inputs similar as shown for the user device 990, as well as networked servers, such as provided in FIG. 1. Accordingly, while the description contained herein focuses on details of interaction within components of the user device 990 and other user devices and servers, it should be understood to similarly apply to interactions of other devices operably coupled to the network 980.
  • the processor 910 is capable of providing control signals and/or performing operations in response to input signals from the user input device 970 and executing instructions stored in the memory 920.
  • the processor 910 may be an application- specific or general-use integrated circuit(s). Further, the processor 910 may be a dedicated processor for performing in accordance with the present system or may be a general-purpose processor wherein only one of many functions operates for performing in accordance with the present system.
  • the processor 910 may operate utilizing a program portion, multiple program segments, or may be a hardware device utilizing a dedicated or multi-purpose integrated circuit.
  • a further embodiment of the present system may provide a Ul that operates as a browser extension, such as a browser plug-in, that may add selection items (e.g., radio buttons), modify selection items, and/or modify operation of the browser (e.g., enable intercepting of an encrypted communication prior to rendering and/or sending the confidential communication) as described herein.
  • selection items e.g., radio buttons
  • modify selection items e.g., enable intercepting of an encrypted communication prior to rendering and/or sending the confidential communication
  • wile a radio button selection item is illustratively discussed for invitation to confidential communications etc.
  • other Ul action elements may be similarly utilized, such as corresponding menu items, etc.
  • any of the disclosed elements may be comprised of hardware portions (e.g. , including discrete and integrated electronic circuitry), software portions (e.g. , computer programming), and any combination thereof;
  • f) hardware portions may be comprised of one or both of analog and digital portions
  • any of the disclosed devices, portions thereof, acts, etc. may be combined together or separated into further portions, acts, etc. , unless specifically stated otherwise;
  • the term "plurality of an element includes two or more of the claimed element, and does not imply any particular range of number of elements; that is, a plurality of elements may be as few as two elements, and may include an immeasurable number of elements.

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Procédé d'engagement de rencontres en face à face parmi une pluralité de participants, chacun des participants possédant un dispositif informatique portable comportant un affichage, le dispositif informatique portable étant relié à au moins un serveur par un réseau. Le procédé peut comporter les étapes consistant à : recueillir de façon continue des informations concernant un lieu de présence pour chacun de la pluralité de participants, représentant un lieu occupé par le participant au moins pendant une durée prédéfinie; avertir au moins deux des participants de leur proximité temporelle et spatiale leur donnant l'occasion d'une rencontre en face à face; et permettre aux deux participants de négocier un lieu et une heure pour la rencontre en face à face.
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