Identifying and locating users on a mobile network
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsRaghu Pai, Timothy S. Hurley, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Karthik Narayanan, Murthy Parthasarathi, Maxime Veron
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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsRaghu Pai, Timothy S. Hurley, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Karthik Narayanan, Murthy Parthasarathi, Maxime Veron
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A system and method of locating “friends” having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., “home”). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
At least one non-transitory storage device storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
A system, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.