Method and apparatus for finding people via a mobile device
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorWilliam A. Brown
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Abstract
A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for finding at least one person are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a subscriber to find at least one person having at least one characteristic predefined by the subscriber, receives a location of the subscriber and finds, via a processor, the at least one person having the at least one characteristic predefined by the subscriber near the location of the subscriber.
Claims20
A method for finding a person, comprising:
- receiving, via a processor, a request from a mobile endpoint device of a subscriber to find the person having a characteristic;
- receiving, via the processor, a location of the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber;
- finding, via the processor, a mobile endpoint device of the person having the characteristic within a range of the location of the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber if the subscriber is in a list of friends predefined by the person;
- and
- notifying, via the processor, the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber that the person was found only if the subscriber is in the list of friends predefined by the person.
A tangible computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for finding a person, the operations comprising:
- receiving a request from a mobile endpoint device of a subscriber to find the person having a characteristic;
- receiving a location of the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber;
- finding a mobile endpoint device of the person having the characteristic within a range of the location of the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber if the subscriber is in a list of friends predefined by the person;
- and
- notifying the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber that the person was found only if the subscriber is in the list of friends predefined by the person.
An apparatus for finding a person, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising
- receiving a request from a mobile endpoint device of a subscriber to find the person having a characteristic;
- receiving a location of the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber;
- finding a mobile endpoint device of the person having the characteristic within a range of the location of the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber if the subscriber is in a list of friends predefined by the person;
- and
- notifying the mobile endpoint device of the subscriber that the person was found only if the subscriber is in the list of friends predefined by the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.