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Location sharing

  • US 10,368,199 B2
  • Filed: 01/18/2013
  • Issued: 07/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a second device, a text message from a first device;

    processing, by the second device, the text message to determine the text message includes at least a text string, the text string including;

    (a) a first geographic location data associated with the first device, and(b) a second geographic location data associated with the first device in the form of a first reduced size uniform resource locator (URL), the first reduced size URL reducing a size of the second geographic location data,wherein the second geographic location data is contained in a longer URL, andwherein the first reduced size URL is based on a hash of the longer URL;

    presenting, by an application executing on the second device, at least part of the text string and the first reduced size URL;

    obtaining, by the application, a first input to the first reduced size URL;

    accessing, by a map service on the second device, a map service server based on the second geographic location data contained in the longer URL; and

    presenting, by the second device in response to the obtained first input, a map display with a first location marker based on the second geographic location data.

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