Location-based and group-based operations on a data processing device
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1. A wireless device comprising:
- at least a memory and a processor configured to;
maintain a buddy list of friends of a user;
dynamically establish a group containing identities of users in the group, the group dynamically established based on the buddy list and based on additional buddy lists from each user in the group, each of the additional buddy lists corresponding to a respective user and including each of the users in the group, other than the respective user, in the buddy list.
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Abstract
A system and method are described for location-based and group-based operations on a data processing device. For example, a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: establishing a group containing identities of a plurality of users within the group and notification data indicating when other users are to be notified about current locations of the users in the group; determining whether wireless data processing devices of two or more users of the group are at the same location or within a particular distance of the location; identifying the users and the location; and notifying other users in the group of the identity of the users and the location.
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1. A wireless device comprising:
at least a memory and a processor configured to; maintain a buddy list of friends of a user; dynamically establish a group containing identities of users in the group, the group dynamically established based on the buddy list and based on additional buddy lists from each user in the group, each of the additional buddy lists corresponding to a respective user and including each of the users in the group, other than the respective user, in the buddy list. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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maintain a buddy list of friends of a user; dynamically establish a group containing identities of users in the group, the group dynamically established based on the buddy list and based on additional buddy lists from each user in the group, each of the additional buddy lists corresponding to a respective user and including each of the users in the group, other than the respective user, in the buddy list; determining whether wireless devices corresponding to two or more of the users in the group are at a same location; identifying the two or more users and the same location; and notifying the two or more users that the two or more users are at the same location. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method comprising:
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maintaining a buddy list of friends of a user; and dynamically establishing a group containing identities of users in the group, the group dynamically established based on the buddy list and based on additional buddy lists, each of the additional buddy lists corresponding to a respective user and including each of the users in the group, other than the respective user, in the buddy list. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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