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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Darren Alexander Apfel, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan David Friedman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Keith Lindsey Rowe, Seattle, WA (US);
Rosanna H. Ho, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Sandra I. Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Peter Andrew Bernard, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew Justin Von Bencke, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In implementations of creating a communication group, a mobile device can receive a selection to enable communication of location information between devices that correspond to entities from a group of entities associated with a user of the mobile device. The mobile device can receive location information that describes a physical location or proximity of the devices that correspond to the entities, and present in a user interface on a display device, a visual representation that indicates at least one of the entities is at a location within a pre-set distance of the mobile device. A communication group can be created that includes the entities selected from the group of entities associated with the user of the mobile device. The mobile device can also communicate the location information of the mobile device to all of the devices that correspond to the entities as a group communication based on the communication group.