Patent ID: 9565261
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of receiving location information relating to a first user of a first communication client from a first user terminal over a communications system at a second user terminal, the first user terminal executing the first communication client configured to perform encoding and decoding of VoIP packets and the second user terminal executing a second communication client configured to perform encoding and decoding of VoIP packets, the method comprising: displaying, by the second communication client, a list of contacts associated with a second user of the second communication client, the list of contacts comprising a first contact representing the first user; receiving a mood message from the first user terminal at the second user terminal, the mood message comprising as part of the mood message both an identifier to identify the mood message as the mood message and a visual indication of a location of the first user that is configured for display from the mood message, the visual indication of the location determined at the first terminal and without interaction of the first user with the first terminal; and displaying the visual indication of the location, taken from the mood message, on the second user terminal in a mood message field of the contact list along with a name representing the first contact and a presence status of the first contact.