Patent ID: 9578457
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a server, a query from a first device, determining, by the server, a first proximity, associated with the query, based on the information regarding the geographic radius and based on the information regarding the geographic position; automatically determining, by the server, permissions information regarding the first device, determining, by the server, a second proximity associated with the second device based on a geographic location of the second device; determining, by the server, a value based on a shared area that is common to the first proximity and the second proximity, providing, by the server, the proximity information to the first device based on the authorized frequency at which proximity information is permitted to be provided to the first device, receiving, by the server, a group query from the second device; determining, by the server, user device proximities of a plurality of user devices, determining, by the server, a group proximity based on the user device proximities and the second proximity, providing, by the server, information indicating the group proximity to the second device based on the group query.