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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2018
Pushd, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abdur Chowdhury, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ophir Frieder, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Eric Jensen, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Ben Cherry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matt Sanford, Seattle, WA (US);
PUSHD, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user's mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The social media system can automatically determine a location type and/or user activity from context information. The context information can include current and past location and user and/or community information, time-dependent information, and third party information. The automated location and context information allows for users to set triggering conditions for other users, such as to provide an alert to one user or more users upon a particular action of the monitored other user being automatically determined by the system.