FINDING FRIENDS NEAR A FRIEND
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Abstract
A system for finding friends near a friend, including a memory, housed within a mobile device, for storing a contact list including records for a plurality of friends, each record comprising a name of a friend and geographic coordinates of a location of the friend, and a locator for receiving as input the name of a designated friend in the contact list, and for generating as output a list of at least one proximal friend, each proximal friend including the name of a friend, other than the designated friend, whose location is located close to the designated friend'"'"'s location.
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32 Claims
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23. A system for finding friends near a friend, comprising:
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a memory, housed within a mobile device, for storing a contact list comprising records for a plurality of friends, each record comprising a name of a friend and a location of the friend; and a locator for receiving as input the name of a designated friend in the contact list, and for generating as output a list of at least one proximal friend, each proximal friend comprising the name of a friend, other than the designated friend, whose location is close to the designated friend'"'"'s location. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method for finding friends near a friend, comprising:
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maintaining a contact list comprising records for a plurality of friends, each record including a name of a friend and a location of the friend; receiving the name of a designated friend in the contact list; and generating a list of at least one proximal friend, each proximal friend comprising the name of a friend, other than the designated friend, whose location is close to the designated friend'"'"'s location. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32)
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