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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008
Filed:
May. 10, 2002
Applicant:
G. Eric Engstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
Inventor:
G. Eric Engstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
Varia LLC, Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention is directed to mobile device (FIG., No) that obtains presence information for multiple users of other mobile devices (FIG., No) and aggregating this information for display by at least one of the users. The aggregated presence information can include the physical (FIG., No), virtual and ordinal (FIG., Nosand) locations for multiple users of the invention. Each user can opt in to, or out of, displaying at least a portion of the aggregated presence information in real time or over time (FIG., No). Also statistics can be provided for analyzing presence information over time.