Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Harvinder S Bhela

David Paul Limont

Selvaraj Nalliah

Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci

John Allen Atwood

Omar Aftab

Samuel Neely

Katy Chen

Stephen L Lawler

Rajesh M Rao

A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.

Universal mobile device messaging

A system and method for providing a location owner's location information to third parties (location consumers) is provided. The location server obtains an owner profile controlling access to the location owner's location information. A location consumer requests the location owner's location information through a location request. The location server determines whether the location consumer is authorized to access the location owner's location information according to access information in the owner profile. If the location consumer is authorized to access the information, the location server obtains location information from a location provider and returns the location information to the location consumer. The location consumer may also subscribe to a location owner, such that when an identified subscription event occurs, the location server notifies the location consumer of the location owner's current location. The location server repeatedly notifies the location consumer when the subscription event occurs or until the subscription is terminated.

System and method for providing personal location information to location consumers from a location services server

A system and method for providing location information associated with a location owner to location consumers. A location server includes an owner profile for controlling access to the owner's location information. The owner profile contains a time period during which particular location consumers are authorized to access location information associated with the location owner. In response to a location consumer requesting the location owner's location information, the location server determines whether the request lies within the time period associated with the location consumer. If the request lies within the time period associated with the location consumer, the location server obtains location information from a location provider and transmits the location information to the location consumer.

System and method for controlling access to location information

A system and method for providing location information associated with a location owner to location consumers. A location server includes an owner profile for controlling access to the owner's location information. The owner profile contains information describing a user-defined geographic area. In response to a location consumer requesting the location owner's location information, the location server obtains data describing a current location of the location owner. The server determines if the current location falls within a set of boundaries that defines the user-defined geographic area. If the current location falls within a set of boundaries that defines the user-defined geographic area, the location server transmits the location information to the requesting location consumer.

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Harvinder S Bhela