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Message diffusion between mobile devices

  • US 6,859,639 B2
  • Filed: 03/02/2001
  • Issued: 02/22/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of locally diffusing information for presentation to users of mobile devices, the method involving propagating the information from an originating point in messages passed from mobile device to mobile device by non-wired short-range communication means of the mobile devices, presentation of a first message, which is received at a first one of the mobile devices, being inhibited to a user of the first mobile device unless the first mobile device is enabled to propagate on the first message.

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