Patent ID: 8547943
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: configuring a first wireless device to implement a wireless routing protocol that enables the first wireless device to exchange network topology information with other wireless devices in a wireless mesh network; developing a network topology that indicates a location of the first wireless device in the wireless mesh network and a location of a second wireless device; presenting a presence-based messaging interface in the first wireless device enabling a first user using the first wireless device to exchange communications with a second user using the second wireless device in the wireless mesh network, the presence-based messaging interface structured and arranged to exchange communications between users in real-time that have elected to become online; determining that the second user does not have a privacy setting that prevents the second user from being represented in the presence-based messaging interface in the first wireless device; and configuring a presence label for the second user on the second wireless device in the presence-based messaging interface to reflect the location of the first wireless device in the wireless mesh network relative to the location of the second wireless device.