Realtime, location-based cell phone enhancements, uses, and applications
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Abstract
Enhancements of and to cell phone operations are based in whole or in part on determining the location of the cell phone. Systems and methods select and determine locations or areas of importance or relevance, and based on that information and other programmed factors affect or alter the operations of the cell phone. While the systems and methods are illustrated by use of cell phone embodiments and applications, they are equally applicable to virtually any portable or mobile communication device, including for example, wireless laptop computers and PDAs.
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28 Claims
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1-23. -23. (canceled)
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24. A method that responds to a receiving cell phone'"'"'s receipt of a message from a sending cell phone, comprising:
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(a) receiving the message at the receiving cell phone from the sending cell phone; (b) detecting, using geographic location detection hardware of the receiving cell phone, the geographic location of the receiving cell phone; (c) in response to receiving the message, without contemporaneous user input, the receiving cell phone sending a reply message that is caused to be delivered to the sending cell phone to reply to the receiving cell phone'"'"'s receipt of the message; (d) wherein the reply message includes information that indicates that the message has been received by the receiving cell phone; and (e) wherein the reply message is sent depending on whether the receiving cell phone is at a certain geographic location as detected by the receiving cell phone'"'"'s geographic location detection hardware. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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