Patent ID: 8494548

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at an endpoint group manager a request message from a requesting endpoint moving towards an area, the request message requesting a communication session corresponding to the area; identifying, by the endpoint group manager, the area towards which the endpoint is moving according to a Global Positioning System (GPS); identifying, by the endpoint group manager, an area-based group associated with the area identified according to the GPS, the area-based group comprising one or more endpoints moving towards the area, the area-based group allowing the one or more endpoints to communicate with each other in the communication session; adding the requesting endpoint to the area-based group to allow the requesting endpoint to access one or more messages of a message repository of the one or more endpoints in the communication session; determining that the requesting endpoint has entered the area; and sending an invitation to the requesting endpoint, the invitation inviting the requesting endpoint to join the area-based group.