Patent ID: 8468154
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing and distributing information, the method comprising: contracting in a plurality of mobile user terminals of a telecommunication system a distribution policy for data items, the distribution policy of each respective mobile user terminal defining automatic accessibility of data items generated by adopting output information from an application running in the respective mobile user terminal to other ones of said plurality of mobile user terminals contracting a same distribution policy; generating in the mobile user terminal each data item by adopting the output information from an application running in the mobile user terminal; marking, in each of said plurality of mobile user terminals, data items adopted from the application output automatically accessible to other ones of said plurality of mobile user terminals contracting the same distribution policy when the data item is created in a defined geographic area; annotating, in each of said plurality of mobile user terminals, the data items with a geographical position information element; generating, in each of said plurality of mobile user terminals, for data items an indexing record, an indexing record of a data item including the geographical position information element; configuring, in the mobile user terminals, at least one transmission state, a transmission state corresponding with an operational state of the mobile user terminal during which transmission one or more of the data items from the mobile user terminal is allowed; sending the indexing records of each of said plurality of mobile user terminals to an application node storing the indexing records of said plurality of mobile user terminals contracting the same distribution policy only when the mobile user terminal is in a transmission state; providing, in at least one of said plurality of mobile user terminals contracting the same distribution policy, geographical position selection view based on the indexing records stored in the application node, the geographical position selection view comprising a number of separate coordinate elements dividing the geographic area into a mesh of subareas, the contrast or brightness or color of the coordinate elements on the map view varying according to the proportion of interesting data items, whose display is filtered in accordance with setting in a search profile that: determining the address of one of the plurality of mobile user terminals that contains a data item listed in the search results; requesting the data item from the mobile user terminal that contains the listed data item when it is determined the user terminal is available and periodically retrying the request when it is determined that the addressed mobile user terminal is not available; adding a comment to a data item provided in response to the request; and redistributing the commented data item to a group of users that have accessed the commented data item.