Managing Location Labels in a Social Network
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1. A computer accessible non-transitory memory medium comprising program instructions for managing location labels in a social network, wherein the program instructions are executable to:
- store a plurality of location labels in a memory, wherein each of the location labels corresponds to a location;
storing constraint information corresponding to a first member of the social network, wherein the constraint information controls dissemination of the location labels for a plurality of second members of the social network;
selectively provide one or more of the location labels to one or more of the second members of the social network based on the constraint information.
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Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users.
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1. A computer accessible non-transitory memory medium comprising program instructions for managing location labels in a social network, wherein the program instructions are executable to:
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store a plurality of location labels in a memory, wherein each of the location labels corresponds to a location; storing constraint information corresponding to a first member of the social network, wherein the constraint information controls dissemination of the location labels for a plurality of second members of the social network; selectively provide one or more of the location labels to one or more of the second members of the social network based on the constraint information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for managing location labels in a social network, comprising:
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storing a plurality of location labels in a memory, wherein each of the location labels corresponds to a location; storing constraint information corresponding to a first member of the social network, wherein the constraint information controls dissemination of the location labels for one or more second members of the social network; receiving location information of the first member of the social network; determining a first plurality of location labels associated with the location information of the first member; and selectively providing one or more of the first plurality of location labels to one or more of the second members of the social network based on the constraint information. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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