Social Network Content Search, Real-Time Media Sharing, and Communication Session Profiling Technologies (Deal 209)

This portfolio is generally related to content search in social networks, classify communication sessions among users, a wireless multimedia brokerage service to share real-time content and peer-to-peer (P2P) media content streaming. A set of patents disclose a system to store media on a first device, identify a communication link to establish a communication with a second device. The first device receive a search packet from the second device and receive a distribution level to distribute the query within a social network. The system distributes the search query to another device of a same user to maintain a current value of the distribution level and close the communication session. Few patents in the portfolio disclose a technique to characterize a communication session in a social network as a circuit which represents a collection of social network members participating in a live communication link such as ongoing instant messaging, file or content sharing sessions, email communications, video and/or audio chat sessions, etc. The system generates profiles of connected users for content filtering, recommending content shared by participating social network members, selecting relevant advertisements, providing topic, etc. Another set of patents in the portfolio disclose a wireless multimedia brokerage service which provides real-time multimedia content sharing system for mobile device users to receive real-time content from a device in visual proximity. Further disclosed are techniques for peer-to-peer media content streaming for delivery of VOD content. The technology may be implemented in social networks, social network information sharing system, data sharing in collaborative system, group publishing system, peer-to-peer media sharing system, etc.