Patent ID: 8060389
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G01S,G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method performed by one or more processors, comprising: registering an account for a first user with a web service; registering an account for a second user with said web service; receiving from said first user a request granting a location based services privilege to said second user, where said request is made through a user interface of said web service; receiving a situational location of said first user from a mobile device associated with said first user; and enabling said second user to perform a location based service action on said first user in accordance with said situational location and said location based services privilege, where the location based service action is performed by processing the location based services privilege according to a preference specified by the first user, the preference allowing the second user to access the first user's configuration data for performing the location based service action.