AUTOMATED MOBILE POSITIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA METHOD AND SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method of sharing locations and/or activities of a user participating in a social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprising:
- receiving a user-defined pictogram for a destination;
automatically associating the pictogram with the destination; and
automatically sharing the pictogram in the social networking service upon further user arrivals at the destination prior to receiving any additional user information.
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Abstract
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user'"'"'s mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The social media system automatically determines a location type and/or user activity from context information. The context information can include current and past location and user and/or community information, time-dependent information, and third party information. The location activities can be presented to the community using pictograms selected to represent user activities.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of sharing locations and/or activities of a user participating in a social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprising:
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receiving a user-defined pictogram for a destination; automatically associating the pictogram with the destination; and automatically sharing the pictogram in the social networking service upon further user arrivals at the destination prior to receiving any additional user information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18)
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14. A method of sharing locations and/or activities of a user participating in a social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprising:
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receiving a user-defined first pictogram corresponding to a first user activity for a location; receiving a user-defined second pictogram corresponding to a second user activity for the location; automatically tagging the location with the first and second pictograms and storing the tagged location in a location database; automatically determining a further visit of the user to the location; automatically determining at least one of the first user activity or the second user activity at the further visit to the location; and automatically sharing a corresponding at least one of the first pictogram or the second pictogram in the social networking service upon determining the at least one of the first user activity or the second user activity at the further visit. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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19. A computer server for providing a social networking service, comprising:
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a tagging module configured to correlate manually entered user pictograms to user destinations; a database module configured to store the pictograms for the user destinations; and a communication module configured to automatically share one or more user pictograms in the social networking service upon further user arrivals at a corresponding one of the user destinations. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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