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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Vivekanand Vellanki, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Durga Devi, Hyderabad, IN;
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 8/22 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04M 1/72572 (2013.01); H04W 8/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods are disclosed for controlling mobile computing devices such as laptops, PDAs and cellular telephones, based on their location. A mobile computing device may include a software-rendered map of defined geographic regions, location handlers for defining behavior of a mobile device in a given geographic region, and a location handling engine for determining when a new geographic zone has been entered and exited, and for executing and terminating location handlers accordingly.