Patent ID: 8126441

Claim:
A method of communicating among a group of participants each having a communication device that includes a touch display screen, a global positioning system, and advanced communications software, comprising the steps of: a. establishing, over a private remote server excluding a website or a web browser, a communications network among the communication devices whereby the participants are capable of exchanging and displaying identity data, location data, status data, and personal data through the advanced communications software; b. providing, over the communications network, at least one of the participants with the identity data of at least one of the other participants; c. establishing a polling network comprising at least one of the participants by selecting, through the advanced communications software, the identity data that includes a phone number corresponding to that participant; d. sending, through the advanced communications software, a SMS polling message to each of the participants of the polling network; e. in response to receiving the SMS polling message, the polled unit continuously and automatically transmitting according to a set time interval, distance traveled, or sensor input, at least its identity and location data to the private remote server using IP communications to the pre-stored server address contained in the ACS software; f. each time the polled participant's data is received, the private remote server transmitting to each of the other participant devices in IP communications with the server, at least the identity data and the location data of each of the participants, on the polling network, without any selection criteria or manual input of relationship data; and g. displaying, on the touch display screen of each communication device, at least the identity data and the location data of each of the participants of the polling network.