Patent ID: 9584459
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: maintaining a plurality of user profiles in a server, each user profile describing information associated with a user and associated with status information associated with the user; maintaining access privilege information associated with each user profile identifying one or more users authorized by a user corresponding to the user profile to access at least a portion of information in the user profile; receiving, at the server, location information associated with a sending user from a mobile computing device associated with the sending user; storing the received location information in a user profile associated with the sending user; identifying one or more receiving users authorized to access location information associated with the sending user based at least in part on access privilege information associated with the user profile associated with the sending user; and communicating a message including the received location information to one or more mobile computing devices associated with the identified one or more receiving users authorized to access location information associated with the sending user.