Patent ID: 9590862
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for managing portable phones in a previously defined group of portable phones including a managing portable phone, the method comprising: displaying, on the managing portable phone, the previously defined group of portable phones; selecting, by the managing portable phone, a portable phone other than the managing portable phone from the displayed group of portable phones; retrieving, by the managing portable phone, a permitted list of portable phones in the group that are permitted to obtain navigational directions to a geographic location of the selected portable phone; retrieving, by the managing portable phone, a prohibited list of portable phones in the group that are not permitted to obtain the navigational directions to the geographic location of the selected portable phone; and updating, by the managing portable phone, the retrieved permitted list and the retrieved prohibited list, wherein updating the retrieved permitted list and the retrieved prohibited list comprises: