GLOBAL CONTACT SYNCHRONIZATION

• US 20180070203A1
• Filed: 11/02/2017
• Published: 03/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Buzd, LLC
• Original Assignee: Buzd, LLC
• Inventors: SHUSTER, Gary Stephen, Goldsmith, David
• Application Number:
  US15/802,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20180070203A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A situational and global context aware calendar, communications, and/or relationship management method and system is disclosed. The system is configured to receive non-calendaring related context information, and, based on that context information, to automatically determine one or more parameters of a meeting request.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory storing instructions that, in response to execution by the one or more processors, causes the mobile device to;

generate a list of a plurality of contacts;

for each of the plurality of contacts for which geolocation data originating from at least one device associated with said contact is received by the mobile device, generate location information based on the geolocation data;

display, on the mobile device, at least one contact from the list of a plurality of contacts;

wherein for each contact displayed, the geolocation data is utilized to generate a visual indicator, and said visual indicator is displayed in conjunction with the contact associated with that geolocation data.