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WO2022135772A1
WO2022135772A1 PCT/EP2021/079628 EP2021079628W WO2022135772A1 WO 2022135772 A1 WO2022135772 A1 WO 2022135772A1 EP 2021079628 W EP2021079628 W EP 2021079628W WO 2022135772 A1 WO2022135772 A1 WO 2022135772A1
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  • Computer-implemented communication system with syntax-free and user-controlled address features that can be generated and managed
  • the invention relates to a computer-implemented method and a computer-implemented communication system with advantageous options for defining address features.
  • the implementation preferably takes place on a plurality of computers and in particular by means of a computer network.
  • Computer-implemented communication systems are known in many forms. There are e-mail systems that are open to any participant via computer-implemented services. There are also communication systems that can only be operated using special application programs. Each participant can call up the application program via his terminal and communicate with other participants who also have this application program. Finally, communication systems can also be part of (digital) social networks, with the participants being members of these networks and being able to communicate with one another within the network.
  • a disadvantage of previously known computer-implemented communication systems is, for example, that the participants are restricted in the definition of their address information, via which they want to be able to be found and addressed.
  • a special syntax must be followed, for example with e-mail addresses.
  • user names are to be stored, which are also linked to a specific syntax.
  • it is also a question of pure verbal information, i.e. a fixed and only possible address format. This also represents a restriction for the participants.
  • the participants have no influence whatsoever on telephone numbers as address information.
  • the address information of a participant is usually unchangeable. If this third party or even the public has become known, the participant can be contacted at will. In case of doubt, unwanted senders have to be blocked manually, which is laborious, or a participant has to create a completely new profile with a new address specification within the communication system.
  • Search functions are also known in the context of social networks to make it easier to find other participants or members. Using the search functions, complete profiles of these members are found within the network. The actual communication then takes place with access to and knowledge of these profiles, for example by means of a message function of the social network, which links the profiles of members for the purpose of communication.
  • Searching for complete profiles is time-consuming and usually not effective.
  • the searching members must have some knowledge of what to search for. If you meet a person in public space, especially without talking in detail or not at all, you usually have no useful information that can be entered into the search function. Appropriate search results are usually only generated in this case if you at least roughly know the user names of the members in the social network.
  • the invention is based in particular on the knowledge that, due to the disadvantages and limitations outlined above, existing communication systems cannot in principle be used if other potential participants are initially encountered largely anonymously. Apart from a visual impression, you then have no information (in particular no information that can be searched for using the search function) about this participant and, above all, no user names or administrative address details. It is then not possible to establish contact with existing communication systems.
  • the invention therefore provides for providing the participants with greater freedom when choosing features and/or properties (hereinafter: address features) via which they want to be able to be found and/or addressed.
  • address features are preferably essentially syntax-free. At the very least, they are not restricted to a specific and, above all, not to a single species, class or format, for example not exclusively to numbers or words. Instead, the participants are preferably free to choose which information they want to store as an address feature.
  • the subscribers are advantageously also given freedom with regard to the administration of the address characteristics.
  • the address features of the solution presented here can preferably be flexibly varied and, in particular, selectively activated. As explained below, this can also be done in such a way that only selected address features are activated for making contact, depending on time and/or location. Depending on the time and/or location, participants can therefore flexibly specify which features they want to be able to be found and addressed in particular afterwards.
  • the address features are preferably stored in a database and/or a digital directory of the communication system. This is preferably done in a structured manner in particular in such a way that they are clearly assigned to the participants. This makes it easier to search when other participants formulate communication requests with address characteristics contained therein or which can be derived from them. Furthermore, this facilitates access to the address features by the participants.
  • a fundamental advantage of the solution disclosed is that other participants do not necessarily have to find out specific administrative address information such as user names or e-mail addresses. Instead, the participants can use address features to make themselves findable, which can be perceived purely visually in public space, for example. Other participants can then, for example, freely describe a perceived or seen person via a communication request without having exact personal information or even exact address details for this person. If the person has stored address characteristics that match the communication request, they can be contacted by the searching participant, even if no real conversation or other exchange of information and, in particular, address has taken place.
  • a communication system is thus created in which target information for messages can be derived and/or defined on the basis of perceptible in reality and in particular physical characteristics of potential addressees.
  • the communication system is accordingly set up to set up communication connections using previously unavailable address information that can be administered in a self-determined manner. In particular, this enables the communication system to be used in new application scenarios (see, for example, the above subsequent contacting of a person despite no contact being made at the time).
  • address characteristics are specific items of clothing, a certain hairstyle or hair color.
  • Location-related information can also be defined as address characteristics. This can be information about the time and/or location of a participant's whereabouts, in connection with which this can be detected purely visually by other participants, for example. Further examples are discussed below.
  • participants can preferably search for any address characteristics with which they hope to be able to contact a person whom they have met in public space, for example. Based on these address characteristics, at least one person or at least one other participant found, a communication connection can be established immediately. It is therefore preferably not necessary first of all to search for, display and look through complex profiles of other participants which could potentially match a communication request.
  • a method for establishing a communication connection by means of a computer-implemented communication system is proposed, the method and/or communication system having a large number of participants, and the method having:
  • the above method can include the (preferably user-controlled) recording of information on the basis of which the address features can be generated.
  • This information may be collected, for example, by or based on user input (e.g., voice or text input) and/or by selecting from, for example, displayed selectable options.
  • information can be recorded or obtained from external systems, which can be used, for example, to generate location information for users.
  • This can, for example, be a booking system or a seat occupancy detection system, particularly for public transport.
  • a user's whereabouts information can also be enriched and/or processed using information from such external systems. For example, approximate location information from a user can be combined and/or expanded with movement data from a means of transport in order to obtain more precise information about the user's whereabouts.
  • a sensory acquisition of information is controlled by a respective participant and the address features are generated based on this information.
  • the sensors can be used to record raw data or measured values that contain the information or from which address characteristics can be derived, e.g. as part of an automatic evaluation.
  • a correspondingly developed variant of the above method which is used as a basis in the following despite the purely optional sensory detection part, is as follows: Method for establishing a communication connection by means of a computer-implemented communication system, the method and/or communication system having a large number of participants; the method comprising: sensing information controlled by a respective participant;
  • the computer implementation can include that subscribers have access to further computer devices of the communication system (in particular a (central) computer system of the communication system) that are in particular remote and/or distributed via terminals assigned to them (e.g. PCs or smartphones).
  • These computer devices and/or this computer system can be or include computer servers, for example. They can have databases with address characteristics of the participants described therein. These databases can, for example, store different types of address characteristics and/or different groups of participants together be assigned to their address characteristics.
  • at least one database can include information relating to an assignment of participants and terminals in order to enable communication between the participants via their respective terminals. Further possible components and information of the communication system are explained below, in particular in the context of the description of the figures.
  • information and in particular address features can also be stored in directories or databases that are stored on the subscriber's terminals and/or generally in the front end.
  • a search for address characteristics initiated by a participant in the frontend via a communication request can then not or not only run in the backend or in the central databases there, but also include directories in at least some of the frontends.
  • the storage of information in central databases or in the front end can meet the security needs of the participants. For example, they may prefer not to transfer certain private data to the backend, but to leave it locally on their own device.
  • Application software (in particular a software application and also in particular a mobile app) can be run on a subscriber's terminal device. This can communicate via (wireless) communication connection with any computer devices or computer systems of the communication system disclosed herein.
  • the application software can include or form a first and/or second interface of the type mentioned above.
  • the control of a (particularly sensory) acquisition of information by the participant can be understood to mean that he can control at least one of the following aspects: a time of acquisition, in particular by selectively releasing, triggering or activating the acquisition (e.g. in the sense of recording the information); the detection content, in particular by aligning the detection area with, for example, yourself; a recording duration, for example in the case of a continuous recording of movement profiles or location information.
  • the control can include the user specifically actuating or setting a terminal device assigned to him/her for sensory detection. Without corresponding actuations, on the other hand, preferably no sensory detections are possible, or at least not such detections based on which address features are generated.
  • the sensory detection also supports the generation of different types of address features that are as syntax-free as possible, which entails technical advantages in terms of the range of applications and usability of the communication system.
  • the sensor can be included in the subscriber's terminal device.
  • it can be a camera device for capturing image data or a location sensor for capturing location information and/or movement profiles (e.g. a GPS sensor).
  • location information can also be derived from metadata, e.g.
  • the information can be data that can be detected by the sensor or can correspond to such data. For example, they can be location or movement information or information that can be visually recorded in general.
  • the sensor can also be a sensor for receiving certain signals and in particular electromagnetic signals (e.g. a Bluetooth or NFC (Near Field Communication) receiver). In particular, the sensor can detect a transmitter identity encoded in the signal.
  • the senor can also be provided independently of the end device, e.g. in a smart home device (e.g. a digital mirror) or a motor vehicle (e.g. as an interior camera thereof).
  • a smart home device e.g. a digital mirror
  • a motor vehicle e.g. as an interior camera thereof.
  • non-sensor-based functions can also transmit address features or information that can be used to generate them, for example a booking system for public transport (for example to determine a seat) and/or a Movement detection system of a public means of transport for generating location information for a participant who uses this means of transport. All of these external systems can transmit the recorded information or characteristics directly to, for example, a central computer system of the communication system. However, you can also transmit it to a terminal device belonging to the participant, which communicates with this central computer system. As explained above, such information can also be combined with the user's location information in order to obtain more precise location information.
  • a booking system for public transport for example to determine a seat
  • a Movement detection system of a public means of transport for generating location information for a participant who uses this means of transport. All of these external systems can transmit the recorded information or characteristics directly to, for example, a central computer system of the communication system. However, you can also transmit it to a terminal device belonging to the participant, which communicates with this central computer system. As explained above,
  • the address features can generally be technically and, more precisely, sensorially detectable or can be derived from technically or sensorically detected information.
  • address characteristics that are not necessarily detected by sensors can preferably be defined, e.g. simple text information (e.g. slogans).
  • address features are assigned to a subscriber and/or are the subject of a communication request, one can also speak of an address feature pattern in the form of a combination of the individual address features.
  • the information and/or data recorded by sensors can be analyzed with the aid of a computer.
  • image data can be analyzed using image evaluation algorithms. Predetermined patterns or properties can be identified here. In particular, biometric properties can be determined, e.g. if the participant captures a picture of himself.
  • Location information can also be analyzed to derive movement profiles.
  • a movement profile (or whereabouts profile) can be understood in particular as a time-location history that links whereabouts with the associated time information. This history can therefore describe when the participant was where. It can therefore be a time-location vector or a time-location matrix.
  • Such a vector or such a matrix can contain or define a large number of pairs of values (or pairs of data or information). Each pair can contain a time specification together with the associated location specification.
  • the vector or the matrix can contain a number of corresponding pairs of values, for example to specify a type of continuous movement or location profile of a user.
  • the address features finally generated can be the result of a corresponding analysis of sensor data, for example.
  • the sensory recorded Information and/or data as such are defined as address characteristics, this definition corresponding to a generation of the address characteristics.
  • raw data from the acquisition can therefore be stored as address characteristics.
  • these are preferably provided (and in particular without this being necessarily displayed separately to a participant) with automatically generated classifiers, which can in turn be generated, for example, by the analysis described above.
  • a photo of a piece of clothing that a participant would like to use to be found can be classified as a “yellow sweater” or something similar, or corresponding classifications (or tags) can be derived from the photo as address characteristics using a computer. If a communication request contains a picture of the same piece of clothing or just a corresponding classifier, a match between the address feature being sought and the address feature stored for the participant can be established.
  • Corresponding address features can therefore generally also be understood as address features that are not completely identical but relate to the same real situation and/or the same real object. In other words, these address characteristics can differ from one another, for example in terms of their type, class, form, syntax and/or format, but relate to the same situation.
  • An example of this is the above-mentioned variant of the photo of a piece of clothing as a first address feature and the corresponding second address feature that describes or classifies this piece of clothing in general (“yellow pullover”).
  • a partial correspondence can exist, for example, if a complete movement profile of the participant is stored as an address feature. If the communication request is only based on a specific location, this can only correspond to part of the stored movement profile.
  • a movement profile can be stored as a series of individual time-location features (in particular in the form of a time-location vector or matrix) and sufficient similarity can result from the fact that a location searched for, in particular in relation to a specific point in time does not completely match any stored location, but eg a permissible maximum distance to the stored locations is not exceeded.
  • a blue and light green jacket can also be found as an address feature in a search for a blue and light green pullover, for example, so “blue and light green” can represent a partial match.
  • each participant can define and/or activate a number of different address features.
  • the address features can be of different types or belong to different classes of information, data or content. This promotes freedom of syntax when defining address information or characteristics.
  • the participants can generally be natural persons. However, they can also be objects or systems, in particular objects or systems actively participating in a communication. In the latter case, for example, as a system, a computer device in a shop can actively write to a person as a further participant when he or she enters the shop.
  • a single address feature can correspond to a single piece of information or property that a subscriber would like to use to be findable and/or addressable.
  • the address characteristics do not have to relate directly to a subscriber or describe it directly. They can also be characteristics of objects that are assigned to the participant and through which he would like to be discoverable (e.g. a bag or a piece of clothing worn by the participant).
  • the virtual features described here can relate to characteristics of a participant that are not necessarily perceptible visually, for example their interests. It goes without saying that by defining and in particular activating a plurality of address features, combinations of address features can also be defined via which a subscriber would like to be able to be found.
  • certain address characteristics can also be defined as a mandatory or necessary part of a contact request, so that a participant can only be found if these address characteristics are contained in the contact request.
  • it can be a prerequisite that a subscriber submitting a communication request must itself have certain stored characteristics or properties (in particular address characteristics) in order to be able to find another subscriber.
  • a participant can also control his findability in this way and preferably define it flexibly.
  • Such necessary features of other participants do not necessarily have to be part of a communication request, but can, for example, be deposited or stored for the requesting participant.
  • it can be location information or time-location vectors, and a participant can define that he should only be able to be found by other participants who were in his own vicinity, that is, for example, who have a sufficiently matching time-location vector .
  • it can be a matter of specific, visually perceptible features, for example a worn item of clothing and/or a brand thereof.
  • the participants can be real natural persons. However, as explained, the participants can also be objects.
  • Participants can link with, in particular these, objects, e.g. follow them virtually, and thereby gain insight into the messages sent to the objects. This is preferably done by the participants selecting the objects as a possible address feature. In other words, the participants can make themselves discoverable via the objects as an address feature. All of the participants who link to an object and select this object as an address feature can form a type of group. If a message is addressed to this address feature, it can consequently be received by a plurality of group members or by a plurality of participants with this object as an address feature.
  • An advantage over conventional group formations in social networks is again the more intuitive and possibly syntax-free findability of the object serving as a group identifier or common address feature.
  • various address features can be stored or selectable by an administrative entity, so that participants can be addressed via these suggested or selectable address features even without knowing an exact designation of the object.
  • a group can also be formed by the fact that participants have a specific
  • Register for an address characteristic that identifies them as a member of the group and/or deposit.
  • the feature can be an object of the type mentioned above, for example.
  • a verification function or else authorization by a third party can be used to ensure that the participants are authorized to use this address attribute and represent, so to speak, authorized members of the group. The participants can then receive messages that are sent to this address feature and thus to all members of the group.
  • address features that should also be usable by other participants for the purpose of group formation can be classified by individual participants as a correspondingly divisible feature and/or as a feature that serves as a group identifier. If another subscriber would like to register the same or a sufficiently similar address feature for himself, the communication system can automatically inform him that this feature has already been classified accordingly.
  • the participant can join a type of virtual group and receive and exchange messages via this address feature together with other participants who have joined the group. This approach is advantageous, for example, when people have common interests (e.g. fashion brands, slogans, mottos or destinations) and are looking for contact with like-minded people.
  • the address characteristics can also be generated in a user-controlled manner.
  • a participant can select recorded sensor data that is to be used to generate address features (e.g. image sections or time windows). Address features are preferably generated automatically based on the sensor data. These can be suggested to a participant for approval, for example. In this way, the subscriber can discard or filter out address characteristics that he/she believes are incorrect. Accepted or confirmed address characteristics can also be automatically activated for addressability. Alternatively, this can be done in a subsequent step and the address features can first be deactivated.
  • an address feature was generated or identified as a potential address feature, verification can be requested from the subscriber. This can be used to ensure that the subscriber is actually a legitimate assignment carrier for this address feature. This is particularly relevant when it is an address feature that clearly belongs to a single subscriber, that is, is assigned to it individually.
  • Such address features can also be referred to as closed address features. You can also enter without a combination with other address characteristics enable confusion-free addressing of a specific participant. This can in particular be biometric features. Verification can therefore be used to ensure that the participant has actually stored his own photo and/or biometric features derived from it and that these are therefore correctly assigned to him as address features.
  • the verification can include the participant sending another control photo of himself and preferably with an additionally shown code that confirms that this photo is up to date. It can then be checked, for example, whether the biometric features that can be derived from this photo match those that are to be stored as address features.
  • Specific closed features such as a fashion brand can also be verified.
  • individual or unique lettering for example on items of clothing, or the general possession of objects, such as corresponding items of clothing, can be verified.
  • a participant can purchase such an object, and in particular a piece of clothing, and use a code attached to the object to verify that he is the actual owner of this object and is therefore authorized to use it as an address feature.
  • characteristics that can be assigned to several participants and therefore do not have an exclusively individual reference can also be subject to verification. Examples are fashion brands or generally purchasable objects.
  • an address feature related to the verification can be activated for contacting by other participants. It is not mandatory, but possible, for the participant to gain access to a group of other participants who have verified the same or a comparable address characteristic (e.g. have purchased the same object).
  • the activation input can be made by haptic operation of a preferably virtual control element (for example by touch input or touching a touch-sensitive surface of the terminal).
  • a preferably virtual control element for example by touch input or touching a touch-sensitive surface of the terminal.
  • voice input, gesture input or text input can take place. This allows a For example, subscribers can select those address features from a list of address features assigned to them that are to be activated for addressing.
  • An active address feature can be understood to mean that this enables contact to be established if it is contained in communication requests from other participants or is determined on the basis of such communication requests. In other words, the active address features are released for establishing a communication connection.
  • the fact that this takes place in a subscriber-controlled manner means that the ability to be found and thus reached by means of the communication system is also essentially subscriber-controlled. This increases the ease of use but also the range of applications.
  • Messages can also be sent to address characteristics that are inactive or not yet registered by subscribers. When these address features are activated or registered, messages previously addressed to them and stored in the meantime can, so to speak, be subsequently delivered to the activating or registering subscriber.
  • a participant does not have to create several different profiles in a social network, for example, if he wants to be able to be contacted in different ways or in different contexts. This reduces data volumes within the communication system. Instead, a participant can activate address features as needed and also change this activation variably, depending on the desired findability (for example, finding via more private address features compared to more professional address features, depending on the context in which the participant is currently moving). Such a variable activation can also be carried out automatically based on criteria set by the subscriber, for example depending on the location of the subscriber or the time of day.
  • a collection of address features assigned to the subscriber is therefore preferably created and stored for each subscriber, which the subscriber can access via the first interface and/or his terminal.
  • he can also manage these address features in such a way that he can also create new address features independently of sensory detection. For this purpose he can, for example, make inputs without sensory detection (e.g. text input) and/or he can make a selection from predefined options. For example, he can specify an address feature step by step using selectable information, for example a piece of clothing by type, shape, brand, color, etc. He can also preferably permanently delete existing address features.
  • the communication request can also be entered in a wide variety of formats and using a wide variety of input variants.
  • pre-selection options can also be provided in this case, which a searching participant can select to formulate a communication request.
  • a perceived piece of clothing can be specified step by step (e.g. according to type, shape, brand and colour).
  • the communication request can be analyzed with computer assistance in order to find address features, in particular by means of an analysis unit of the communication system described below.
  • a search can be made for predetermined classes or types of address characteristics, e.g. for location or time information.
  • a communication request can also include image information or be entered as an image file, e.g. of the participant to be contacted. This information or file can/can be searched through image analysis to find potentially relevant address features.
  • a searching participant can therefore specify the content of a communication request himself in detail, for example by means of a detailed formulation and/or listing of the properties sought.
  • the communication request can be created at least partially automatically, e.g. using a captured image file or your own movement profile. This can be done, for example, if the user selects a photo of an item of clothing and wants to contact all the people who have worn this item of clothing and who, for example, were in their vicinity today. The photo can then be automatically analyzed with regard to suitable potential address features and, optionally, your current movement profile can be automatically included in a communication request.
  • Requests may also include virtual features of any of the types described herein.
  • communication requests that are visually perceptible and/or have physical properties of other participants as their subject, are additionally specified and/or limited.
  • An example is a communication request that is aimed at all participants in a defined location (for example in the vicinity of the requesting participant) and which also contains at least one interest of the participants sought as a virtual feature.
  • virtual characteristics can be interest-related, group-related (e.g. relating to an assignment to or membership in groups), behavior-related (e.g. relating to a below rating of friendliness), system activity-related (e.g. relating to login times or frequencies) and/or personal characteristics of the participants (e.g. a name or, in the abstract, a stage name or a web link associated with the participant).
  • personal features can be an example of closed (i.e. not arbitrarily usable by others) individually assigned address features.
  • the virtual features can be components of a virtual profile of the type described below. Additionally or alternatively, they can be defined and/or activated as discoverable address features. In particular in the cases mentioned above, the virtual features can consequently have a display function, for example so that participants can present themselves to the searching participants in the desired manner for the purpose of addressing and/or as part of a profile displayed when they are found.
  • virtual features can control the ability to be found and/or addressed and thus generally have a control function.
  • participants can preferably only be contacted by another participant if the latter has virtual characteristics with specific characteristics, e.g. only by participants who belong to a VIP group or have certain interests.
  • the virtual features can be selected and/or stored by the participants themselves. In general, a verification of the type already explained above can be requested from the participant when specifying certain virtual characteristics, eg for participation in a virtual group, eg on a certain topic or a location. Virtual features can also be generated by other participants or entities. For example, ratings (for example friendliness) of the participants can be stored as virtual features, with these ratings being able to be given by other participants or entities.
  • a central computer system or the communication system in general can also generate activity-related virtual characteristics of the participants.
  • the virtual features can be generated by accessing external systems, for example by accessing online sales platforms, from which a participant purchases goods or services that reflect his possible interests as a virtual feature.
  • a preferred embodiment provides that features can be stored for each participant as address features and/or as features or part of a virtual profile that do not relate to any physical properties and/or any visually perceptible properties of a participant. These features can be virtual features according to any variant described herein.
  • Address characteristics of the communication request can be compared with stored and in particular activated address characteristics of other participants, e.g. by database query. If a match or sufficient correspondence or similarity to an address feature of another participant is found, the communication connection to this participant can be established. If a match (or correspondence) is determined with address characteristics of a number of participants, a communication connection to the plurality of participants can be established. As mentioned, however, it can also be required (e.g. on the part of the participants who can be found) that participants can only be contacted if all of their individual active address characteristics or at least specific selected ones are included in the communication request (at least sufficiently corresponding or optionally in an identical form).
  • the establishment of a communication connection is preferably initiated and/or executed directly within the same and/or with the same application program, by means of which address features can be activated and/or communication requests can be entered.
  • the first and/or second computer-implemented interface cannot be exited for this purpose.
  • This and/or the above application program can therefore be executed primarily by the subscribers' terminals, for example. So you can do this on a Display area of the terminal (e.g. as a further running) application program or interface are displayed.
  • a background system or backend system
  • Such a link or such an access can take place, for example, by means of a software interface and in particular an API interface (Application Programming Interface).
  • communication is preferably established using the solution disclosed herein. It is therefore preferably not a pure search function for subscriber profiles in virtual social networks, with communication having to be established by accessing or switching to these networks and using separate communication systems there.
  • participant there is preferably no provision for the participant to have to independently search for a communication option in a member profile or the like found in response to the communication request in order to carry out the communication.
  • participants found can be displayed to him and these can preferably be contacted directly by simple selection or confirmation input.
  • the latter may include automatically providing and specifically displaying a text field or record activation control for audio and/or video input.
  • Establishing the communication link taking into account the address feature can therefore include identifying a participant using the address feature and displaying it to the requesting participant in the sense of a potential search hit.
  • the communication connection can be established immediately (e.g. automatically without further user input) or after as few additional inputs as possible by the requesting participant.
  • a further development provides that a communication connection is established if the address feature of the communication request corresponds to activated address features of a number of participants is set up to the plurality of participants. This can also be referred to as a multicast communication.
  • the communication connection can be established in such a way that a message of any format (e.g. text, audio or video) can be transmitted by the searching participant to a participant who has been found.
  • the message can be entered via the terminal (and/or the computer-implemented interface) of the searching participant and output by means of the terminal (and/or the computer-implemented interface) of the participant found.
  • the message can be exchanged between the end devices via the communication system, e.g. via an established mobile phone connection.
  • the participants can be managed as electronic identities within the communication system and/or be defined as such. Address characteristics can be assigned to these electronic identities in the databases or directories mentioned herein. There can also be a database and/or directory that assigns the devices used by the participants and in particular their electronic identities (e.g. the IP addresses of these devices or preferably an assignment by means of an authenticating token (token-base authentication).
  • an authenticating token token-base authentication
  • At least the second interface is comprised of a computer-implemented application program that is executed on a terminal of the user making the communication request.
  • the first interface can also be provided on a subscriber's terminal device and, in particular, can be included in a computer-implemented application program executed there.
  • the terminals can be set up to set up the communication link and/or to maintain it, in particular, reciprocally.
  • a development provides that the address features assigned to a respective subscriber can be exchanged and/or that at least one of a plurality of stored address features can be variably activated for addressing (ie can be selectively activated and deactivated).
  • the latter is based on the aspect already mentioned above from, according to which a participant can be assigned a plurality of address features and this can variably and/or, if required, only activate selected ones. However, this activation is preferably always changeable.
  • the following examples can be used as address characteristics, alone or in any combination: the designation of a type of clothing or fashion accessory and/or its brand and/or its color, with the participant currently wearing this clothing or fashion accessory or having worn it in the past ; a specific item of clothing that is stored, for example, as an image file as an address feature; a hair color; a hairstyle name or a photo of the hairstyle; a description of biometric characteristics; a text feature, such as printing on a garment or fashion accessory; a tattoo or other body decoration (e.g. piercings, nail polish color or make-up); gender, height; a worn perfume. From the above it is clear that objects such as items of clothing or properties thereof can be assigned to a participant as address characteristics.
  • the address carrier (or address feature carrier) is an object, properties such as noises emitted by it, light emitted, electronically detectable signal patterns emitted and/or smells emitted can also serve as address features.
  • the signal pattern may include or serve as identity information.
  • signal patterns can be assigned to individual devices (then e.g. as or via a Bluetooth (MAC) address) or to a network (then e.g. as SSID of a WLAN).
  • MAC Bluetooth
  • SSID SSID of a WLAN
  • Shapes, decorative elements (e.g. fonts, graphics or patterns) and/or approximate sizes or shape specifications can also be properties of objects that can be used as address characteristics.
  • the address features can be properties in general, or the address features can correspond to properties that other participants can perceive in the real environment.
  • these can be physical properties and/or visually perceptible properties of a participant or of objects with which a participant associates. This makes it possible to find contacts later, even without an immediate exchange and getting to know each other on site. This also reduces the risk of spelling mistakes, which can prevent contact being made with previous e-mail addresses or user names.
  • location-related information about the participants can be generated as address characteristics. This can be understood to mean location information that describes locations where the participants have stayed and were or are potentially visually perceptible there, for example by other participants. The location information is preferably also supplemented with time information, for example in the sense of the above movement or location profiles.
  • Location information can also be specified in such a way that a seat in a means of transport or at a public event is recorded. This can be entered manually by a participant as an address feature or, for example, transmitted by a booking system of the organizer as an address feature. Alternatively or additionally, location information of a means of transport (eg its movement data) can be integrated in order to determine and/or limit the location information of a participant using the means of transport.
  • signals or signal patterns of the type described above and/or transmitter identities coded therein or with it can be defined as address features. It can also be determined with which data networks (e.g. WLAN networks) a terminal device of a participant has connected. This can also be stored as an address feature, preferably provided with time information relating to the connection time or period.
  • data networks e.g. WLAN networks
  • a possible communication request could therefore be aimed at contacting a person with certain physical characteristics that one saw at a certain place at a certain time.
  • knowledge of real names or user names of participants to be contacted is not required.
  • the address features can be provided with a time reference and/or location reference and the method has:
  • the time reference or location reference can be a type of validity criterion and/or validity restriction for the address features.
  • a participant can therefore activate address characteristics for a location, but only if the communication request is based on the time or place reference valid for these address characteristics. If this is not the case, the address features cannot be found using the communication request and/or cannot be evaluated as matching the searched address features of the communication request.
  • the time reference can define a period of time and the location reference can define a geographic area.
  • a participant can define, for example, that he would like to be able to be found via a specific, e.g. physical or virtual address feature if a person has seen the participant and thus the address feature in a specific period of time and/or at a specific location.
  • the subscriber can prefer a different feature as an address feature.
  • the participant may prefer to be findable and addressable using different characteristics in the context of a party than in a professional context. Consequently, he can use the time and/or place reference (e.g. in the evening and at the place of the party) for the party at least one first address feature and for the professional context about the time and/or place reference (e.g. during the day and at the place of the professional activity) define at least one further address feature that differs from the first feature.
  • the time and/or place reference e.g. in the evening and at the place of the party
  • the party at least one first address feature
  • the professional context e.g. during the day and at the place of the professional activity
  • Both address features can be active, but can only be found and enable communication to be established if the communication request also refers to this time and/or location reference. This makes it possible for a subscriber to define his findability in a more differentiated and, in particular, context-dependent manner. He then does not have to create any separate profiles or user accounts, for example, in order to be found in more private or more professional contexts. This reduces data volumes within the communication system and increases usability.
  • a type of time- and/or location-dependent path or a time- and/or location-dependent course of active address features can consequently be defined by means of the references mentioned.
  • the references can also be automatically generated or recorded. It can be stored for each address feature when and/or where it was activated.
  • time and/or location references can be variably defined and, in particular, only added later (eg after an address feature has already been generated and/or activated).
  • the time reference and/or location reference e.g. by a respective participant
  • the time and/or location reference of the communication request can relate in general to the content of the communication request, ie, for example, at what time or at what location a searched participant was seen or is being searched for by a communication request. It can therefore preferably not relate to the time or place at which the communication request was made.
  • the profiles can, for example, be retrievable after they have been found by means of a communication request and/or can be displayed to a searching participant.
  • they can also contain other (particularly active) address characteristics of a subscriber.
  • the profiles preferably allow only limited disclosure of personal information. For example, via a suitable user-controlled selection of virtual features, they can also contain no unwanted private information and/or only active address features and/or only those address features that the subscriber has released for display in his profile.
  • the profiles can also have a time reference and/or location reference. Depending on which time and/or location reference a communication request has (or on the basis of which time and/or location reference of the communication request the profiles were found), a profile that matches this time and/or location reference can be displayed (in particular the matching address characteristics and/or any other characteristics (in particular virtual profile characteristics) of the participant found). This gives the participants more differentiated options for context-dependent self-presentation (via corresponding profiles) without having to create a large number of user accounts.
  • any other criteria can also be stored, which can limit visibility and/or findability by other participants and/or their communication requests.
  • address features can be provided with a time reference and/or location reference (in particular of any type described above), the method having:
  • the communication request itself does not necessarily have to have a corresponding time or location reference, so it can be directed, for example, to a generally observed external property. From the point of view of the subscriber who has the address characteristics, however, it can be ensured (and e.g. specified by means of a setting option) that he is actually only found via the address characteristics if he has actually encountered other subscribers in reality.
  • network dial-in may generally be captured and/or stored as a subscriber's location in the context of the solution disclosed herein.
  • a time dependency and/or location dependency can also be achieved by activating address features only temporarily or when staying at certain locations (preferably automatically). For example, a participant can define time periods and locations when certain features are active and others are not. This can be used, for example, to adjust the findability during the day versus in the evening or at work versus where you live, automatically but user-controlled.
  • address features can also be subsequently deleted (e.g. not only deactivated and/or limited in terms of their ability to be found by means of a time or location reference). Deletion can mean that these address characteristics can no longer be found in general. Even if a participant has successfully contacted another participant in the past using these address characteristics and these were optionally also displayed to him as part of a profile, this address characteristic can no longer be found and/or displayed when this profile is called up again and/or this search is carried out will. In particular, this cannot be the case with address features that were only subsequently deactivated, ie when the search result is called up again, the address feature that has meanwhile been deactivated can continue to be displayed, for example as part of a profile of the subscriber found.
  • a preferred embodiment provides that when it is determined that the address feature of the communication request does not correspond to an activated address feature (i.e. no contactable participant was determined who is assigned to this address feature and has activated it), a message (of any format) can still be stored for this address feature is.
  • the message can be stored in a memory device of the communication system. If the address feature is subsequently supplemented by a subscriber at a later point in time and/or an address feature that has already been stored is not activated until later, it can be determined whether a message has already been stored for this. This can be displayed or output to the subscriber assigned to the address feature. This also increases the range of functions of the communication system compared to existing solutions.
  • the participants can define (in particular their own potential) address features and/or raw data or specific information or virtual information carriers for address features, based on which they cannot be found (e.g. by a communication request) (or, in other words, can be contacted or reached). want.
  • a public figure may wish to be discoverable via private snapshots or the like.
  • These photos or their raw data or potential address features shown in them e.g. the clothing worn there
  • an audio recording of a conversation e.g. a public interview
  • a speech pattern derived from it cannot enable addressing, but a different and in particular private voice recording can.
  • the participants can also define address characteristics and/or any virtual characteristics of other participants, which the other participants, for example, in the context of their own profile have stored in the communication system, based on which contact by these other participants is to be blocked. If the other participants have a corresponding address feature and/or any other (virtual) feature, they can be refused contact.
  • connection information and time and/or location references of the participants are explicitly stored and/or activated as their address characteristics.
  • such information can also be stored and evaluated independently of, for example, an address database.
  • Links can be stored in directories of the communication system.
  • the link can also be established to electronic identities and/or to participants. If one of the features is registered as an address feature and/or it is recognized that a participant would like to register under a new name or with a new profile, for example, the features associated with this feature and/or participant can be determined and, if necessary, assigned automatically. This can also be referred to as an inheritance. This is particularly advantageous when ratings for a specific participant have been stored as virtual characteristics. These ratings should also continue to be used if the participant registers again with a different profile or identity.
  • the invention also relates to a communication system set up to carry out a method according to any aspect described herein.
  • a communication system set up to carry out a method according to any aspect described herein.
  • it can have any feature in order to carry out all the steps and measures described herein. All the variants and developments explained in the context of the method can also be provided for the communication system or apply to it.
  • the communication system can be configured as follows: a communication system for a large number of participants, which is set up to generate (and preferably store in a database) at least one address feature for each participant (preferably based on sensor-detected information) that corresponds to the respective Subscriber is assigned, and wherein the communication system has: for each of the subscribers, a first computer-implemented interface, by means of which generated address features for addressing the respective subscriber can be activated; for each of the participants, a second computer-implemented interface, by means of which a communication request can be entered; the communication system is also set up to determine at least one address feature on the basis of a received communication request (e.g. using the analysis unit below), and to determine (e.g.
  • the address feature of the communication request corresponds to an address feature activated for addressing a subscriber at least partially corresponds (ie, in particular, is sufficiently similar thereto according to a defined criterion), and if so, a Establishing a communication connection by means of the communication system between the identified participant and the participant submitting the communication request, preferably taking into account the address feature.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a communication system according to an embodiment, which executes a method according to an embodiment.
  • FIG. 2 shows a flowchart for a method according to a further exemplary embodiment, which can be carried out with the communication system from FIG.
  • FIG. 1 shows a communication system 10 according to an exemplary embodiment. It includes a central computer system 12, which may include at least one computer server, for example.
  • the central computer system 12 can also comprise a plurality of locally distributed individual computer devices which communicate with one another. It can therefore be a network of individual computer devices.
  • the term "central” can be understood functionally and not necessarily locally. It can describe the status of the computer system 12 within the communication system 10 .
  • the computer system 12 is connected via data connections 14 (for example in the form of a mobile radio or Internet connection) to terminals 16 which are each assigned to a subscriber T1, T2.
  • terminals 16 each represent interfaces 21, 23 to and from the communication system 10 that can be operated by the subscribers T1-T2.
  • the application software and optionally also the terminals 16 can each be a component of the communication system 10 .
  • the communication system 10 can be provided independently of the exact type of terminal 16, ie the application software can be executable on a wide variety of terminals 16.
  • Any data exchange described herein can be carried out with the computer system 12 by means of the application software and the participants T1 , T2 can make any entries described herein.
  • the application software accordingly provides a computer-implemented interface between the participants T1 , T2 and the computer system 12 .
  • application programs can also be executed in the foreground (and/or in the front end), e.g. Consequently, from the user's point of view, the application software can run behind the scenes and/or hidden or in the backend and, so to speak, indirectly provide an interface to the computer system 12 via the superficial application program.
  • Subscribers T1, T2 can be assigned to terminals 16 by the subscribers T1, T2 logging in (or also registering) using the terminals 16 or the application software running on them. In doing so, they signal the use of the specific terminal device 16 on which the application software that transmits the registration process to the computer system 12 is running.
  • the participants can be stored as electronic identities and/or represented by such.
  • the address and/or virtual features described herein can be assigned to these electronic identities.
  • Information about the assignment of terminals 16 (e.g. identifiable via device-related addresses and/or tokens of the type described above) to the respective participants T1, T2 and/or their electronic identities can be stored in a first schematically indicated database 17 of the computer system 12.
  • the computer system 12, but at least the databases 17 and/or directories contained therein, can form a backend system of the communication system 10.
  • the application software and/or the terminals 16 can form a front-end system.
  • the participants T1, T2 can use their application software to define features in the context of a communication request that identify that participant T1, T2 or a plurality of participants T1, T2 and/or the object(s) assigned to them ) describe who should be contacted.
  • These features are essentially syntax-free. As a result, they can be freely formulated and, for example, are not bound by specific regulations with regard to the sequence of characters, address formats or address content.
  • Image data can also be entered (in addition to or as an alternative to features described in writing) as at least part of a communication request. The image data can, for example, depict properties and in particular the appearance of another subscriber T1, T2 who is to be contacted.
  • the subscribers T1, T2 can also define syntax-free features (so-called address features).
  • the computer system 12 comprises a second database 18 (or, in general terms, a directory).
  • the individual subscribers T1, T2 are assigned address features A1.1-A2.1.
  • the number and type of address features A1.1-A2.1 described in the context of the exemplary embodiment is merely an example.
  • Its terminal 16 has a camera device (in short: camera) 20 and a location sensor 22 (in particular a GPS sensor) as sensory devices.
  • the subscriber T 1 can take a picture of himself with the camera 20 and store this picture as an address feature.
  • the image can be analyzed using an image analysis algorithm, in order to derive, for example, biometric properties of participant T1, particularly in the form of personal biometric features such as hair color, hair type, eye color, size, etc., or to determine other visually perceptible properties of participant T1 or objects associated with it, which are suitable as an address feature (e.g. clothing color or clothing brand).
  • This Analysis results can also be address characteristics. They can optionally be displayed to subscriber T1 for confirmation.
  • a movement profile of the subscriber T1 can be recorded with the location sensor 22 (e.g. in the form of a time-location vector or matrix with a large number of time-location value pairs).
  • This movement profile can be stored as an address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • the profile can contain a large number of individual address features that can be requested via a search query or corresponding individual features can be derived from them (e.g. "at 5 p.m. at the main station").
  • the participant T 1 can also define only selective location information as address characteristics (e.g. “from 12 p.m. at the XY trade fair”).
  • Each address feature A1.1-A2.1 can be selectively activated or deactivated by the associated subscriber T1, T2. This can be understood to mean that it can be switched to be selectively active (i.e. discoverable) or inactive (ie not discoverable) in order to be found via a communication request from another subscriber T1, T2.
  • a time reference and/or location reference can also optionally be defined for each address feature A1.1-A2.1. Irrespective of any activation or deactivation, these can define an additional condition with which the findability of the address characteristics A1.1-A2.1 can be determined by communication request. Thus, the address features A1.1-A2.1 can only be found if the communication request is also aimed at this specific or a sufficiently similar time or location reference.
  • the first address feature A1.1 relates to the lettering "Partylion". This can be printed on a piece of clothing worn by him that the participant T1 wore to a party. The subscriber T1 would like to be able to be reached or found using this lettering as an address feature A1.1, but if possible only by other visitors to the party.
  • the address feature A1.1 is activated by the subscriber T1, but with the period of the party as the time reference Z and the location of the party as the location reference O. Only when a communication request and/or a subscriber T2 making the communication request also has such a reference Z, O can he find and contact the address features or the associated subscriber T1.
  • time references Z and O are symbolically marked by a cross in FIG. A blank field means that no such reference Z, O exists. It goes without saying that the time references can also be added or removed later and thus managed flexibly.
  • the second address feature A1.2 relates to a conference attended by the participant T1 as the whereabouts. Subscriber T 1 would like to always be addressable via this. He therefore makes it active and does not provide it with any additionally required time or place references Z, O.
  • the whereabouts can also be automatically recorded and, if necessary, automatically created and/or proposed as address feature A1.2.
  • the participant T1 can activate the recording of his movement profile when he is at the trade fair.
  • a location reference O could be added in order, for example, to be addressable exclusively by other participants who were also at the trade fair.
  • the movement profiles of inquiring participants can be used to check, for example, whether they were at the trade fair location or in sufficient proximity to it.
  • a time reference Z can also optionally be added to ensure that these participants have attended the same and not another trade fair.
  • the third address feature A1.3 relates to a piece of clothing that the subscriber T1 has not worn for a long time. He therefore does not expect any contact requests that relate to this item of clothing and sets address attribute A1.3 to inactive. The next time he wears the item of clothing, he can set address feature A1.3 to be active again. If he only wants to be found in the specific context of wearing this article of clothing, he can optionally define a time and/or location reference Z, O.
  • a subscriber T1 can also link specific (preferably active) address features A1.1-A1.3 with one another in order to define coherent feature patterns. He can then request, for example by setting his application software, that he only wants to be found via an active address feature A1.1-A1.3 if all other or at least a specific selection or subset of other required address features are also available A1.1-A1.3 of this coherent feature pattern are met (ie contained in a communication request). He can use this to define a particularly unambiguous findability, for example if he specifies his external appearance in a particularly unambiguous manner using the coherent pattern of features.
  • combinations of different types of address features A1.1-A2.1 in communication requests can increase the probability that a specifically desired subscriber T1, T2 will actually be addressed or make itself addressable.
  • deficits with regard to the recording accuracy and/or uniqueness of certain address characteristics or information recorded for this purpose can be at least partially compensated for.
  • a more precise search and/or findability can be defined by combining a rather imprecisely detectable location with few individual biometric features such as a hair color than if these features were only used on their own.
  • subscriber T1 can also make itself discoverable independently of other characteristics via other address characteristics A1.1-A1.3. As soon as these are included in a communication request, he can be found as a candidate communication addressee even if other active address characteristics are not included in the communication request.
  • An address feature A2.1 is also shown as an example for the second subscriber T2. This underscores the fact that all subscribers T1, T2 preferably both actively make communication requests and can also be addressable via communication requests. But this is not mandatory. It is preferably possible to contact other participants T1, T2 even without their own active address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • the second subscriber T2 makes a communication request to find the subscriber T1 is described as an example below.
  • subscriber T2 saw subscriber T1 in reality, but did not speak to him, for example.
  • At least he has not received full contact information (e.g. for contacting independently of the communication system 12 and by e-mail or telephone) from it or has not written it down correctly.
  • the participant T2 therefore tries the participant T1 on the basis of his physical or visually perceptible to describe characteristics (i.e. its appearance).
  • a possible communication request from participant T2 to contact participant T1 could be: “The approximately 1.70 m tall man with the checked suit, who was also at the conference this morning”.
  • This communication request is transmitted to the computer system 12 of the communication system 10 via a data connection 14 .
  • There it is analyzed by an analysis unit 24 .
  • the analysis unit 24 can run algorithms to capture the semantic content of the communication request and/or to identify potential address features therein.
  • the algorithms can be set up to record time and location information as well as descriptions of the appearance.
  • the analysis unit 24 can identify any of the following as address characteristics of the communication request: “height: 1.70 m”, “man”, “suit”, “checkered”, “this morning”, “conference” or “ place of the conference”.
  • Analysis unit 24 can also be set up to define or use similarity criteria, by means of which address features A1.1-A2.1 stored for subscribers T1, T2 are evaluated as sufficiently similar to the features sought by communication request or as sufficiently corresponding to these features be able.
  • stored address features A1.1-A2.1 can be evaluated as sufficiently similar to the requested address features or as sufficiently corresponding to them if they are within an extended range of the requested height (e.g. 1.65-1.75m), one larger selected period ("today” instead of "this morning") and/or an extended location range (e.g. location of the conference plus a radius of 1 km).
  • Other descriptive and in particular optically perceptible features can also be evaluated in an expanded manner in this way, for example “patterned” can be sufficiently similar to “checkered”.
  • the computer system 12 and in particular its analysis unit 24 can then search for these address features in the second database 18 .
  • Alternative options for searching in distributed databases or decentralized in directories of the terminals 16 are mentioned in the general description.
  • the associated subscribers T1, T2 are identified as subscribers T1, T2 to be addressed.
  • a confirmation of this identification can be requested by the subscriber T2, for example by displaying information about the subscriber T1.
  • Such information can be part of an optional profile that each participant T1, T2 create and that can contain and display, for example, all address features A1.1-A2.1 and/or virtual features of the type described herein that have been activated by the participant.
  • the optional profiles are advantageously kept as anonymous as possible.
  • the subscribers T1, T2 can be found and contacted via a communication request without necessarily having to disclose detailed information about themselves apart from the preferably self-administered address features A1.1-A2.1.
  • the participant T2 making the communication request can be requested to further specify the communication request until there is a clear match with only a single participant T1, T2.
  • the search query above will at best determine a match with the address feature A1.2 (conference).
  • Address feature 1.3 is not found because it is inactive.
  • the address feature 1.1 is also not found, since the location reference O and time reference Z are not fulfilled.
  • the analysis unit 24 thus ascertains “this morning” as the time reference Z of the communication request and the location of the conference as the location reference O.
  • the party to which characteristic 1.1 refers lies further in the past and also took place at a different location. Consequently, the address feature 1.1 is not displayed to the searching subscriber T2 as part of a profile or a search hit.
  • subscriber T2 was at the party and would like to subsequently contact subscriber T1, he can use a communication request to specifically search for the address feature Find A1.1.
  • the location reference O or the time reference Z it is preferably not mandatory for the location reference O or the time reference Z to be part of the communication request. Instead (additionally alternatively) it can be checked whether the searching subscriber T2 itself has such a location reference O or time reference Z, which can be derived, for example, from a recorded movement profile of this subscriber T2 (eg by the analysis unit 24).
  • Movement profiles of participants T1, T2 can be stored in a separate location database of the computer system 12 (not shown).
  • a subscriber T1, T2 can also set that he should only be able to be found by subscribers T1, T2 who were or are in his vicinity, without time or location references Z, O of individual address characteristics being absolutely important. This can be checked based on recorded movement profiles of the participants T1, T2 and e.g. as an additional condition for establishing contact in addition to matching address characteristics.
  • the communication connection between the participants T1, T2 can be established in such a way that messages entered by the participant T2 into the terminal 16 are transmitted via the data connection 14 to a communication server 26 of the computer system 12.
  • the communication server 26 can then transmit this message to the terminal 16 that is currently assigned to the subscriber T1 that has been found. This assignment can be determined using the entries in the first database 17, in which the participants T 1 can be represented and stored as electronic identities.
  • the message is transmitted to the subscriber T1 by any output or playback option of the terminal 16, e.g. by text display or by playing audio or video content.
  • the front-end systems communicate via a back-end system (the communication system 10 or its computer system 12).
  • the front-end systems can also communicate directly with one another, for example via WLAN or Bluetooth or another wireless communication link.
  • the physical and possibly virtual feature patterns can be stored at least in part in the front end, in particular by means of the decentralized directories described above.
  • a search query can then, for example, be directed to those front-end systems or terminals 16 or take place there that are within a defined range for the direct Communication with the front-end system or the terminal 16 of a requesting subscriber T1, T2 are.
  • the range of functions of the disclosed communication system 12, which is improved compared to existing solutions, is already clear from the above.
  • the participants T1, T2 can also search for and contact other participants T1, T2 without precise detailed knowledge of correct address data using freely formulated communication requests.
  • the subscribers T1, T2 can also freely store features as address features and activate them (optionally depending on location and/or time) so that they can be found.
  • the address features A1.1-A2.1 can also be virtual features of any type described herein. Additionally or alternatively, at least selected virtual features and/or address features A1.1-A2.1 (particularly activated address features A1.1-A2.1) can be part of virtual profiles 28 of subscribers T1, T2. These profiles 28 are also stored in the second database 18 purely by way of example. However, they could also be stored in another database. If a participant T1, T2 was identified as a communication target by means of the analysis unit 24 on the basis of a communication request, the profile 28 of this participant T1, T2 can be read out and displayed, for example, to the requesting participant T1, T2.
  • the participants T1, T2 can also store conditions, in particular in the form of a collection 30 of data and/or characteristics, which the requesting participants T1, T2 must meet or have in order for a communication to take place (and/or the requesting participants T1, T2 may not have, so that a communication can come about).
  • This collection 30 can also be stored in the database 18 or in a separate database.
  • the features covered by this can be address features A1.1-A2.1 or any other features that are stored in the computer system 12 for the participants T1, T2 or can be determined by them.
  • the subscribers T1, T2 can store as a condition for addressability by other subscribers T1, T2 that the other subscribers T1, T2 must be a member of a specific group (see also the discussion below regarding group identifiers).
  • Individually assigned features can also be stored, for example if contacting a participant with a specific artist name is desired or not.
  • a variant is shown here, according to which the communication system 10 itself directly establishes and/or enables the communication between the terminals 16 .
  • the communication system 10 manages address features A1.1-A2.1 and uses these to identify the subscribers T1, T2 to be addressed by communication request.
  • additional communication or address information from other communication services can also be stored and the communication system 10 can establish communication using these communication services based on this.
  • a membership feature or also a group identification feature as address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • Participants T1, T2 can be invited by other participants T1, T2 or by a higher authority and/or authorized to use such a group identification feature as address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • the existence of an invitation can be checked, for example, by the computer system 12 having a directory of invitations that have been sent, including their addressees, and comparing this with the participants T1, T2 and their address characteristics A1.1-A2.1 in the database 18.
  • a subscriber T1 acquires an object with a text imprint, for example a parasol or umbrella, and stores this imprint in text form as an address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • the subscriber T1 can define from the outset as a property that this imprint or text is a group identification feature that can also be used by other subscribers T1, T2, ie can have a 1:n assignment. Additionally or alternatively, it can also be stored that it is an address feature A1.1-A2.1 that cannot be used arbitrarily, but can only be used, for example, upon invitation or as a result of some other authentication.
  • Subscriber T 1 can define itself as the managing entity for managing the use of the group identifier. Alternatively, he can define conditions which the computer system 12 automatically checks and correspondingly automatically invites and/or authorizes other participants T2 to use the group identifier.
  • another participant T2 would also like to register the imprint for himself as an address feature A1.1-A2.1, for example because he is acquiring the same object and/or moves around in public with the participant T1. To do this, it transmits a virtual request (legitimation request) to the subscriber T1 or to its terminal 16 if it has not yet received an invitation from the subscriber. In particular, the subscriber T2 can be informed that such a request is necessary if he first independently tries to register the imprint as an address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • a virtual request legitimation request
  • subscriber T1 confirms the request and thus releases the group identification feature for use by subscriber T2 as address feature A1.1-A2.1.
  • the subscriber T1 could also withdraw this release again at a later point in time, ie in general flexibly and in particular reversibly manage the use of the group identifier by other subscribers T2.
  • a third participant sees the participants T1, T2 with the object in public, for example on the beach. He searches for the text of the imprint via a communication request (e.g. immediately or only at a later point in time). The analysis unit 24 then determines the subscribers T1, T2 as addressees to whom a message can be sent.
  • An alternative possibility for using closed (ie not freely usable) and optionally multiple assignable group identifiers is that a subscriber T1, T2 an object (for example a piece of clothing) and/or its properties only as an address feature A1.1-A2.1 can use if, for example, he legitimizes himself as the actual owner of the object via a code carrier of the object or another authentication method. This procedure can also be referred to as verification.
  • the participants T1, T2 for example, a located on the object or Detect supplied code carrier using his terminal 16 and prove that he has actually purchased the object.
  • a verification may also be necessary if a subscriber T1, T2 would like to store optically perceptible and in particular biometric features as address feature A1.1-A2.1. For example, if a participant specifies their eye color, they can be asked to verify this by capturing real-time images of their face.

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L'invention concerne un système de communication (10) et un procédé de fabrication d'une liaison de communication au moyen d'un système de communication mis en œuvre par ordinateur (10) pour une pluralité de participants (T1, T2) le procédé comprend : la capture d'informations au moyen d'un capteur, commandées par un participant particulier (T1, T2) ; pour chaque participant (T1, T2), la génération d'au moins une caractéristique d'adresse (A1.1 - A2.1) attribuée au participant particulier (T1, T2), sur la base des informations capturées par le capteur ; l'activation de caractéristiques d'adresse générées (A1.1 - A2.1) pour un adressage de tout participant (T1, T2), si ceux-ci effectuent une entrée prédéterminée ; la réception d'une demande de communication en provenance d'au moins l'un des participants (T1, T2) et la détermination d'au moins une caractéristique d'adresse (A1.1 - A2.1) sur la base de ladite demande de communication ; la détermination si la caractéristique d'adresse (A1.1 - A2.1) de la demande de communication correspond à une caractéristique d'adresse (A1.1 - A2.1) activée pour l'adressage d'un participant (T1, T2) et/ou est suffisamment similaire à celle-ci, et si tel est le cas : la production d'une liaison de communication au moyen du système de communication entre le participant déterminé (T1. T2) et le participant (T1. T2) faisant la demande de communication.
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