Patent ID: 9615204
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G01C,G01S,G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising instructions stored on non-transitory machine readable media, said instructions when executed to cause at least one processor of a first mobile device to: cause the first mobile device to interact with a user of the first mobile device using a visual display of the first mobile device to permit the user to define groups, each in a manner associated with one or more other mobile devices; for each group, transmit a request via at least one server to a software application on each other mobile device associated with the group where such request seeks agreement of a user of the other mobile device, entered via the software application, to share location of the other mobile device with members of the group; for a group selected by the user of the first mobile device from the one or more groups, cause the first mobile device to display a map on the visual display of the first mobile device which depicts location of each mobile device associated with the selected group where the user of the mobile device has responded to the request by agreeing to share location; and cause the first mobile device to