Patent ID: 9014724
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for forwarding location dependent messages from a first user's mobile device over a wireless communication network to a second user's mobile device, via a central server, the method comprising: establishing a network of pre-approved participants with whom to send and receive the location dependent messages, the network of pre-approved participants established by linking information associated with each user's mobile device, said linking a result of a confirmation procedure, said confirmation procedure including comparing lists of contacts submitted by users; selecting, by a first user, a second user from among a plurality of pre-approved linked users as an intended recipient of a location dependent message constructed by said first user, selecting, by the first user, a prescribed geographic region as a pre-condition for transmitting the location dependent from the first user's mobile device via a central server to the second user's mobile device as intended recipient of the location dependent message, including the selected prescribed geographic region as part of the constructed location dependent message, transmitting the constructed location dependent message from the first user's mobile device to the central server, the message including the selected prescribed geographic region, extracting the prescribed geographic region from the received location dependent message upon receipt at the central server, periodically monitoring, at the central server, in response to receiving the location dependent message, a current geographic location of said second user as intended recipient of the location dependent message to determine if the second user is within a pre-defined geographic proximity of the prescribed geographic region included in the received location dependent message, and forwarding the location dependent message from the central server to the second user upon determining that the second user has entered within the prescribed geographic region in accordance with the periodic monitoring step.