Social network based on gps and other network connections
OwnerRoger Seradinventor
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Abstract
A method for interactively providing information to a user over a network, including: transmitting a stream of data from a server to a first user device through the network and displaying the stream of data on the first user device; receiving a first location information of the first user device through a first beacon signal from a first beacon installed on the first user device and including the first user location information in the stream of data sent to the first user device; receiving a preference information of a first user from the first user device over the network; and sending a stream of data related to the preference information of the first user to the first user device based on the first user location information of the first user device.
Claims20
A method for interactively providing information to a user over a network, the method comprising:
- transmitting a stream of data from a server to a first user device through the network and displaying the stream of data on the first user device;
- receiving a first location information of the first user device through a first beacon signal from a first beacon installed on the first user device;
- receiving a first message at the server from the first user device to send an invitation to a second user device of a second user selected from a contact list of the first user device;
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- sending a second message from the server to the second user device sharing the first user location information of the first user device on a social GPS map on the second user device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.