Patent ID: 7899469
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: G01C,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for providing user defined notification information using the location of a mobile communications device, which comprises: the mobile communications device configured to: receive a set of data identifying the location of the device; and transmit the set of data; a mobile communications base station, in communication with the mobile communications device via a wireless connection; and a server computer system in communication with the base station, the server computer system configured to: maintain a database containing: a user profile for a user of the device, wherein the user profile includes: a listing of contact preferences of the user of the device; and a listing of sharing preferences of the user of the device that vary depending upon the location of the device; and data related to a plurality of product and service providers, wherein each of the plurality of product and service providers are associated with reception preferences for receiving data from the user profile of the user of the device, the reception preferences based at least in part on both the location of the device and one or more user characteristics in the user profile; receive the set of data identifying the location of the device transmitted from the device; associate the set of data with the user profile to identify the sharing preferences of the user of the device; correlate the location of the device, the listing of sharing preferences of the user of the device, and the listing of reception preferences for receiving data from the user profile; create a set of sharing data according to the correlated data, the set of sharing data including a subset the user profile; and transmit the set of sharing data to at least one of the plurality of product and service providers.