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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
May. 20, 2010
Applicant:
Jean Pierre DE Vries, Kirkland, WA (US);
Inventor:
Jean Pierre De Vries, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people.