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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kanak B. Agarwal, Austin, TX (US);

Patrick J. Bohrer, Austin, TX (US);

Ahmed Gheith, Austin, TX (US);

Michael D. Kistler, Austin, TX (US);

Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, TX (US);

Brian L. White Eagle, Austin, TX (US);

James Xenidis, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01); H04W 8/20 (2009.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/327 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04W 4/04 (2013.01); H04W 8/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

For location-based communication with mobile devices, a set of callee conditions is received at a caller's device, which has to be satisfied by a callee according to information descriptive of a condition of the callee. The state information is distinct from the location and a time of the callee's presence at the location. An evaluation is made that each device associated with each potential callee in a first subset has been present at the location at a specified time, and that each potential callee in the first subset satisfies the set of callee conditions. At the caller's device, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a device of a potential callee in a first subset. The call is initiated from the caller's device to mobile devices associated with the first subset of potential callees.


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