Device-to-Device Network Location Updates

A computer-program product for use in conjunction with an electronic device, the computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a computer-program mechanism embedded therein to communicate an update to a location, the computer-program mechanism including:

• instructions for detecting, via an interface circuit in the electronic device, a change to the location of the electronic device in another network, wherein the electronic device communicates with a group of one or more other instances of the electronic device via dynamic connections that are based on pre-established and maintained associations in a device-to-device network of a user of the electronic device,
• wherein the associations are maintained for longer time than the dynamic connections, and
• wherein a given dynamic connection between the electronic device and a given instance of the electronic device in the group is setup by the electronic device without assistance of a computer in the other network, which conveys the communication between the electronic device and the given instance of the electronic device via at least a non-wireless communication technique;
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• instructions for providing, via the interface circuit, a message with the update to the location to a second user in the device-to-device network who is associated with a second instance of the electronic device in the group at a second location specified by one of the associations.

An electronic-device-implemented method for providing an update to a location, wherein the method comprises:

• detecting, via an interface circuit in the electronic device, a change to the location of the electronic device in another network, wherein the electronic device communicates with a group of one or more other instances of the electronic device via dynamic connections that are based on pre-established and maintained associations in a device-to-device network of a user of the electronic device,
• wherein the associations are maintained for longer time than the dynamic connections, and
• wherein a given dynamic connection between the electronic device and a given instance of the electronic device in the group is setup by the electronic device without assistance of a computer in the other network, which conveys the communication between the electronic device and the given instance of the electronic device via at least a non-wireless communication technique;
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• providing, via the interface circuit, a message with the update to the location to a second user in the device-to-device network who is associated with a second instance of the electronic device in the group at a second location specified by one of the associations.