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Automated mobile user location determination and events notification

  • US 10,499,210 B2
  • Filed: 07/26/2018
  • Issued: 12/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of determining locations and/or activities of users participating in a social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprising:

  • receiving a triggering condition from a first user through a first user electronic device;

    automatically monitoring for the triggering condition within the social networking service;

    automatically receiving location information for a second user that is within the social networking service through a location module of a second user electronic device at each of a plurality of locations as the second user electronic device travels to the locations;

    automatically placing the location module into a sleep mode between the locations, wherein the location module goes into the sleep mode;

    after automatically determining location information, and during extended travel upon an automatically determined rate of travel exceeding a predetermined threshold;

    automatically awakening the location module at each of the locations upon receipt of a location transmission;

    automatically determining an occurrence of the triggering condition by the second user through the second user electronic device; and

    automatically communicating the occurrence of the triggering condition to the first user through the first user electronic device.

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