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Patent US8108501 - Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time - Google Patents
A device, system, and method are directed towards providing location information from a social network. A GPS coordinate and a search criterion are received from a client device associated with a member of a social network. The social network is searched for another member associated with a location...http://www.google.com/patents/US8108501?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8108501 - Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time
Publication number US8108501 B2
Application number US 11/555,672
Priority date Nov 1, 2006
Also published as US20080104227
Publication number 11555672, 555672, US 8108501 B2, US 8108501B2, US-B2-8108501, US8108501 B2, US8108501B2
Inventors Paul Robert Birnie, Murray Blake Fortescue
Patent Citations (177), Non-Patent Citations (63), Referenced by (97), Classifications (13), Legal Events (7)
Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time
US 8108501 B2
sending a request to add the at least one other member of the social network to a community of the user within the social network, wherein the added other member is configured to enable refining another search of the social network for other location information.
Mass memory 230 includes a RAM 232, a ROM 234, and other storage means. Mass memory 230 illustrates another example of computer storage media for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Mass memory 230 stores a basic input/output system (“BIOS”) 240 for controlling low-level operation of client device 200. The mass memory also stores an operating system 241 for controlling the operation of client device 200. It will be appreciated that this component may include a general purpose operating system such as a version of UNIX, or LINUX™, or a specialized client communication operating system such as Windows Mobile™, or the Symbian® operating system. The operating system may include an interface with a Java virtual machine module that enables control of hardware components and/or operating system operations via Java application programs.
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Thus, it will be clear to one in the art how to modify the above SQL statement to find, for any GPS coordinate(s) (x1, y1), another GPS coordinate(s) (x2, y2), such that a distance d between (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) is less than or equal to “search_distance,” while taking into account the curvature of the Earth.
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U.S. Classification 709/223, 709/217, 455/456.1, 709/203
Cooperative Classification H04L67/18, H04L67/24, H04W4/206, H04W4/02
European Classification H04L29/08N17, H04W4/02, H04L29/08N23, H04W4/20S
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