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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2001
Jerome Boss, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cezary Marcjan, Redmond, WA (US);
David Milstein, Redmond, WA (US);
Gilad Odinak, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jerome Boss, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cezary Marcjan, Redmond, WA (US);
David Milstein, Redmond, WA (US);
Gilad Odinak, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user-controlled cellular telephone positioning feature allows a cellular telephone user to correlate a user-specified location name with a cellular telephone location among one or more cells of a cellular telephone network. In one implementation, a cellular telephone location tagging application is stored and operated on a cellular telephone. The application obtains a cell identification string corresponding to a cell of a cellular telephone system with which cell the cellular telephone is in communication and allows the user to associate a location name and the cell identification string as location information for a selected location. Location data are maintained on a user's cellular telephone, and the user can selectively make the location information available others.