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US 2014/0155092 A1Published application
Location based notification services
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAdi Ben-Dayan, Gilad Oren
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAdi Ben-Dayan, Gilad Oren
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Architecture that generates a notification when a user arrives at a location, but without exposing identity of the location. Moreover, the notification can be generated and transmitted at all times. The architecture comprises a reminder service that manages all reminder requests and approvals, a notification engine that notifies a requesting user when target user arrived at a specific location or one of a general category of location, and a user interface that allows the user to set reminders that are displayed when the target user arrives at the point of interest and approves other user reminder requests. The architecture can be run on a mobile phone, and manages user requests and user approvals for location based notifications, alerts a requesting user the target user arrived at one of previously-specified points of interest. Similarly, a general category of destination can be specified, rather than a specific point of interest.
A computer-readable medium bearing computer-executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising at least a processor, carry out a computer-implemented notification method, the method comprising:
A computer-implemented method for providing notifications in regard to a geographic location of a target computing device, the method comprising each of the following as implemented by a processor on a computer:
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