Sharing based on social network contacts

Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing Wi-Fi credentials based upon relationships in a computer-implemented social network. At least one server computing device of a Wi-Fi credential sharing service receives an identifier from a mobile device and credentials for a Wi-Fi network fro...

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Hauptverfasser: Holostov, Vladimir, Caponigro, Gregory Thomas, Goyal, Piyush, Lamba, Triptpal Singh, MacDonald, David Neil, Guday, Shai, Mazandarany, Darya, Chen, Shi, Hennessy, Tyler Edward, Nabar, Sidharth
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Zusammenfassung:Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing Wi-Fi credentials based upon relationships in a computer-implemented social network. At least one server computing device of a Wi-Fi credential sharing service receives an identifier from a mobile device and credentials for a Wi-Fi network from the mobile device. The identifier identifies a user of the mobile device. Moreover, the credentials for the Wi-Fi network are desirably shared by the user. Further, contacts of the user are retrieved from the social network. The credentials for the Wi-Fi network are retained in respective accounts of the contacts of the user from the social network. Further, an account of a contact includes credentials for Wi-Fi networks shared with the contact.