Presenting dynamic location of a user
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsBarry Appelman, Andrew Ivar Erickson, Larry L. Lu, Robert Eugene Weltman
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Abstract
Providing location information to a supervisory user includes providing a parental control, using a computer automatically to determine a location of a subordinate user, and storing location information indicative of the location of the subordinate user in a database. A request of the supervisory user to locate the subordinate user is received and a user interface informs the supervisory user of the location of the subordinate user based on the stored location information. At least one of the storing and/or the informing are based on the parental control.
Claims38
A method comprising:
- providing a display of a group of co-users of a communications system, the co-users being associated with a user of the communications system;
- detecting, by at least one processor, a user selection of a co-user from the group of co-users;
- and
- in response to detecting the user selection of the co-user, providing a display of recent online locations and associated geographic locations of a mobile device of the selected co-user used to access the recent online locations.
A graphical user interface produced on a computing device having a display device associated therewith, the graphical user interface comprising:
- a group of screen names, the screen names identifying co-users associated with a user of a communications system;
- a first indication displayed in connection with a first screen name of a co-user for which location information is available;
- and
- wherein, upon selection of the first screen name, an information interface area is displayed on the display device of the computing device, the information interface area indicating recent online locations and associated geographic locations of a mobile device of the co-user used to access the recent online locations.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions that, when executed, by a computing device having a display device, cause the computing device to:
- provide a display, on the display device, of a first interface comprising a group of screen names, the screen names identifying co-users associated with a user of a communications system;
- provide a display, in the first interface, of a first indication in connection with a first screen name of a co-user for which location information is available;
- and
- provide a display, on the display device, of an information interface area upon selection of the first screen name, the information interface area indicating recent online locations and associated geographic locations of a mobile device of the co-user used to access the recent online locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.