User-tagging of cellular telephone locations
First Claim
1. In a computer readable medium of a cellular telephone, a cellular telephone location tagging application, comprising:
- instructions for obtaining location information data corresponding to a location of the cellular telephone in a cellular telephone system; and
instructions for associating on the cellular telephone a location name and the location information data.
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Abstract
A user-controlled cellular telephone positioning feature allows a cellular telephone user to correlate a user-specified location name with a cellular telephone location among one or more cells of a cellular telephone network. In one implementation, a cellular telephone location tagging application is stored and operated on a cellular telephone. The application obtains a cell identification string corresponding to a cell of a cellular telephone system with which cell the cellular telephone is in communication and allows the user to associate a location name and the cell identification string as location information for a selected location. Location data are maintained on a user'"'"'s cellular telephone, and the user can selectively make the location information available others.
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1. In a computer readable medium of a cellular telephone, a cellular telephone location tagging application, comprising:
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instructions for obtaining location information data corresponding to a location of the cellular telephone in a cellular telephone system; and
instructions for associating on the cellular telephone a location name and the location information data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A cellular telephone location posting system, comprising:
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a cellular telephone location tagging application adapted to be stored and operated on a cellular telephone, the application obtaining designed to obtain a cell identification string corresponding to a cell of a cellular telephone system with which cell the cellular telephone is in communication and associating adapted to associate on the cellular telephone a location name and the cell identification string as location information for a selected location; and
a cellular telephone location service center that is designed to receive the location information from the cellular telephone and selectively forward the location information to a predefined recipient. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method, comprising:
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obtaining location information data corresponding to a location of the cellular telephone in a cellular telephone system; and
associating on the cellular telephone a location name and the location information data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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