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US 2002/0119789 A1Published application
System, apparatus and method for location-based instant messaging
AssigneeDanger, Inc.
InventorJackie Friedman
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method comprising: transmitting positional data identifying a wireless device's position responsive to a first user transmitting a message from the wireless device to one or more other users; and transmitting the positional data to the one or more other users.
Claims36
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- transmitting positional data identifying a wireless device's position responsive to a first user transmitting a message from said wireless device to one or more other users;
- and
- transmitting said positional data to said one or more other users.
A system comprising:
- a messaging module to coordinate message passing between a plurality of wireless devices;
- and
- a location tracking module to collect positional data for a first device of said wireless devices and transmit said positional data to a second device responsive to said first device transmitting a message via said messaging module.
An article of manufacture including program code which, when executed by a machine, cause said machine to perform the operations of:
- generating a location-based buddy list comprising a group of named users entered by a first user, and positional data associated with each of said user names in said group.
An article of manufacture including program code which, when executed by a machine, cause said machine to perform the operations of:
- transmitting positional data identifying a wireless device's position responsive to a first user transmitting a message from said wireless device to one or more other users;
- and
- transmitting said positional data to said one or more other users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.