Patent ID: 9549075
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for automatically establishing multi-participant interactions and/or conference calls between users of mobile devices, comprising the steps of: a) user performed installing of an interaction establishing application on the mobile device of each participating user: b) server performed receiving for each user, by said application, phone numbers of other users defined as his friends; c) server performed receiving for each user, by said application, a list of predetermined location or event triggers being conditions for initiating an interaction between users; d) constantly monitoring, by said application, the location of each user's mobile device; and e) upon detecting that one or more of said predetermined locations or event triggers as identified in item (c) are met, automatically initiating one or more interactions between users that comply with the triggers that are met; wherein one of said triggers is initiated when two or more users enter a polygon included in a list of predefined stationary polygons, each of said polygons being defined by location data associated with each of its vertices, whereupon: i. the location of friends of a first user is continuously sought, following detection of entry of said first user into a selected polygon of said predefined polygons; ii. a first friend of said first user is automatically dialed by a first automatic dialing, upon detecting that said first friend entered said selected polygon, allowing said first user and said first friend to talk to each other by said application, if said first friend is able to accept a call in response to said first automatic dialing; iii. an additional friend of said first user is automatically dialed by a second automatic dialing, upon detecting that said additional friend entered said selected polygon, causing said additional friend to be joined to an existing conversation to establish a conference call, if said additional friend is able to accept a call in response to said second automatic dialing; and iv. step iii is repeated for one or more another additional friends of said first user upon being detected to have entered said selected polygon, causing said one or more another additional friends to be joined to said conference call.