DYNAMIC LOCATION OF A SUBORDINATE USER

• US 20130073968A1
• Filed: 09/15/2012
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Appelman, Barry, Erickson, Andrew Ivar, Lu, Larry L., Weltman, Robert Eugene
• Application Number:
  US13/620,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20130073968A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/736
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 1/00 Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith position fixing by co-ordinating a plurality of determinations of direction or position lines G01S5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/21 Interference related issues ; Issues related to cross-correlation, spoofing or other methods of denial of service
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/26 involving a sensor measurement for aiding acquisition or tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Providing location information to a supervisory user includes providing a parental control, using a computer automatically to determine a location of a subordinate user, and storing location information indicative of the location of the subordinate user in a database. A request of the supervisory user to locate the subordinate user is received and a user interface informs the supervisory user of the location of the subordinate user based on the stored location information. At least one of the storing and/or the informing are based on the parental control.

Claims

1. A method of providing location information, the method comprising:

providing a parental control;

using a computer automatically to determine a location of a subordinate user;

using a database to store location information indicative of the location of the subordinate user;

receiving an indication to locate the subordinate user to the supervisory user;

using a user interface to inform the supervisory user of the location of the subordinate user based on the stored location information;

wherein the storing and/or the informing are based on the parental control.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein storing further comprises storing location information indicative of past locations of the subordinate user and wherein informing further comprises informing the supervisory user of a past location of the subordinate user.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein storing further comprises storing an indication of the present location of the subordinate user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the parental control comprises a white list indicative of an online location approved for visitation by the subordinate user.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the parental control comprises a black list indicative of an online location disapproved for visitation by the subordinate user.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the supervisory user is not informed of the location visited by the subordinate user if the location is included in the white list.

7. The method of claim 4 wherein the supervisory user is informed of the location visited by the subordinate user if the location is included in the black list.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the supervisory user is informed of the location visited by the subordinate user if the location is not included in the white list.