Patent ID: 8374628

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a first telephone device having an associated first user, and at a second telephone device having an associated second user, a request to accept a telephone call; obtaining information that indicates a current geographic location of the first telephone device or the associated first user based on the second telephone device or the associated second user being a member of a group of call recipients that are permitted to receive the information that indicates the current geographic location of the first telephone device; obtaining information that indicates a current geographic location of the second telephone device or the associated second user; determining a distance between i) the current geographic location of the first telephone device or the associated first user, and ii) the current geographic location of the second telephone device or the associated second user; determining, based on a comparison of the distance with a threshold distance, whether to display i) text to identify the current geographic location of the first telephone device in association with the telephone call or ii) a map to identify the current geographic location of the first telephone device in association with the telephone call, wherein the second telephone device is determined to display the map when the distance is a threshold distance or less, and the second telephone device is determined to display the text when the distance is greater than the threshold distance; and displaying, based on the determining, the text or the map on the second telephone device in association with the telephone call from the first telephone device.