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Location-based services

  • US 10,728,697 B2
  • Filed: 06/11/2019
  • Issued: 07/28/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobile phone device, comprising:

  • a device display;

    a non-transitory memory for storing instructions; and

    a processor configured to execute instructions to cause the mobile phone device to;

    access device locations of one or more additional mobile phone devices associated with respective ones of additional users, each of the device locations based on location data transmissions associated with the additional mobile phone devices of the additional users;

    display an interactive map interface on the device display, the interactive map interface indicating a plurality of images, each of the plurality of images associated with a respective location or a respective one of the additional users, the interactive map interface further indicating user locations of the additional users by indicating the device locations;

    generate a geofence by associating the geofence with an area proximate to a physical location specified by a user selection from a user of the mobile phone device;

    associate the geofence with a second user, the second user associated with one of the device locations, the associating for triggering alerts based on the one of the device locations crossing a border of the geofence; and

    display, responsive to determining that the one of the device locations has crossed the border of the geofence, an alert on the device display.

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