Automated mobile user location determination and events notification
First Claim
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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Abstract
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user'"'"'s mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The social media system can automatically determine a location type and/or user activity from context information. The context information can include current and past location and user and/or community information, time-dependent information, and third party information. The automated location and context information allows for users to set triggering conditions for other users, such as to provide an alert to one user or more users upon a particular action of the monitored other user being automatically determined by the system.
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20 Claims
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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:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. 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:
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automatically and continually tracking locations of member electronic devices of a plurality of members of a social media community of a first user, wherein the tracking locations includes; automatically receiving location information for each of the member electronic devices through a location module of the each of the member electronic devices at each of a plurality of locations as the member electronic devices travel 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 displaying location information for each of the plurality of members on a first user electronic device; receiving a triggering condition for one of the plurality of members from the first user through the first user electronic device; automatically determining an occurrence of the triggering condition by automatically monitoring a corresponding member electronic device of the one of the plurality of members; and automatically communicating the occurrence of the triggering condition to the first user through the first user electronic device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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