Patent ID: 7813743

Claim:
A method for forwarding location dependent short text messages from a first user's mobile device over a wireless communication network to a second user's mobile device, the method comprising: performing a confirmation procedure by a plurality of users including at least the first and second users to allow the plurality of users to link their phone numbers with other users, thereby establishing a network of pre-approved linked users, selecting, by the first user, the intended second user from among the plurality of pre-approved linked users as an intended recipient of a location dependent short text message, selecting, by the first user, a prescribed region defined as a prescribed distance from a geographic location as a pre-condition for transmitting the location dependent short text message from the first users mobile device via a central server to the second user's mobile device as intended recipient of the location dependent short text message, transmitting the location dependent short text message from the first user's mobile device via a central server, upon receiving the location dependent short text messages at the central server, the central server performing certain functions including: validating the location dependent short text message, wherein validation comprises validating the prescribed region defined by the first user as part of the location dependent short text message, periodically monitoring a current geographic location of second user as intended recipient of the location dependent short text message to determine if the second users has entered within the prescribed region defined in a location dependent short text message, and transmitting the location dependent short text message from the central server to the second user upon determining that the second user has entered within the prescribed region in accordance with the periodic monitoring.