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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2002
Mark Cudak, McHenry, IL (US);
Ronnie Bernard Francis Taib, Marseilles, FR;
Mark Cudak, McHenry, IL (US);
Ronnie Bernard Francis Taib, Marseilles, FR;
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a group application for group formation and management, in particular in a wireless environment. The present invention provides a group application in which a membership list of a group is kept updated automatically by communications between the group applications of the group. The group application handles all the complexity involved in setting up a group and maintaining a membership list for the group, without user intervention. Advantageously, the group application is implemented as a software agent. The invention also relates to an electronic device having a group application or software agent of the invention loaded therein.