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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Andi F. Rusu, Seattle, WA (US);
Felix G. T. I. Andrew, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrick Michael Halvorsen, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Environmental signals are used to determine when to prompt a user to enable location sharing on their computer devices. These environmental signals may include the current location of the user being an unusual location for the user or a location that is tagged as a known social location such as a concert venue, stadium, or park. The environmental signals may also include one or more friends of the user being near the user. If the user chooses to enable location sharing in response to the prompt, the location of the user may be shared with some or all of their friends, or just the friends that have been determined to be near the user. After some amount of time has passed, or the environmental signals have changed, the location sharing may be automatically disabled for the user.