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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2009
Matthew F. Sly, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Reed P. Sturtevant, Lexington, MA (US);
Shannon W. Bator, Needham, MA (US);
Alexander James Jenkins, Boston, MA (US);
Aryeh Goldberg, Newton, MA (US);
Ravi S. Patel, Randolph, MA (US);
Matthew F. Sly, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Reed P. Sturtevant, Lexington, MA (US);
Shannon W. Bator, Needham, MA (US);
Alexander James Jenkins, Boston, MA (US);
Aryeh Goldberg, Newton, MA (US);
Ravi S. Patel, Randolph, MA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A location database may be configured to store a set of subjective, arbitrary, and/or ephemeral names assigned to a location by various users. When a user of a device arrives at a particular location, the device may retrieve and present to the user the set of names assigned to the location. Moreover, the names may be associated with a privacy designation, which may permit an author of a location name to indicate whether the name of a location should be shared with the public or restricted to access by the user (or to a specified group of users, etc.) Other access criteria may also be specified, e.g., read-only access to a name for the public and read/write access to a particular group of users. Within the set of names of a location, particular names may be designated as authoritative, and may be presented to users with emphasis.