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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2015
Sherman Wilcox, Huntsville, AL (US);
Robert O. Baron, Sr., Huntsville, AL (US);
Jonathan Uhls, Huntsville, AL (US);
Sherman Wilcox, Huntsville, AL (US);
Robert O. Baron, Sr., Huntsville, AL (US);
Jonathan Uhls, Huntsville, AL (US);
Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A messaging system comprises memory for storing contact information and location information for a plurality of users, referred to hereafter as 'participants,' who may be dispersed across a wide geographic area. When a user desires to solicit images from a particular geographic region of interest, the user provides inputs indicative of such region, and messaging logic then automatically determines which participants are within the region of interest based on the stored location information. Using the contact information, the messaging logic then initiates communication with the identified participants in order to solicit images of the region of interest. In response, willing participants may capture and return images as may be desired. Thus, the system facilitates the process of finding people at or close to an event of interest, communicating with such people to solicit images of the event or the effects of the event, and then collecting such images.