Patent ID: 7853003
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: H04M,H04N,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method for location-based communicating, comprising: defining a first service area and a second service area for a service provider; and associating, at a memory apparatus accessible to a networked data processing apparatus, the first service area with multiple locations within the first service area and the second service area with multiple locations within the second service area, wherein which of the first service area and the second service area a communicating party is in is determined by the networked data processing apparatus when the communicating party is determined to be at one of the multiple locations in one of the first service area and the second service area, and information specified for a service location of the service provider for the determined first service area or second service area the communicating party is in is forwarded when the communicating party is in one of the first service area and the second service area.