Patent ID: 9307363
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G01S,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to determine whether a target device is collocated with at least one other device within a plurality of mobile devices associated with a user's contact list stored on a user's device, the method comprising: determining location information for each of the plurality of mobile devices associated with the user's contact list; selecting, by a user, a target device within the plurality of mobile devices associated with the user's contact list; determining, based on the location information, whether the selected target device is collocated with the at least one other device within the plurality of mobile devices associated with the user's contact list; displaying the at least one other collocated device to the user, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the collocated information on the screen of the user's device adjacent to each number listed in the contact list stored on a user's device; determining if the at least one other collocated device is selected by the user; connecting the target device and the selected at least one other collocated device to the user's device based on the determining indicating that the at least one other collocated device is selected: and updating the displayed collocated information on the screen of the user's device during the connection of the target device and the selected at least one other collocated device to the user's device based on determining that the collocated plurality of mobile devices associated with a user's contact list has changed during the connection.