Patent ID: 7412400

Claim:
A computer system for providing information about the location of a location owner to a location consumer in response to the receipt of a location request from said location consumer comprising: (a) data storage for storing location owner profile information, the profile information provided by said third party location owner including authorization information specific to one or more location consumers, suitable for authorizing and controlling access to information about the location of the associated location owner; and (b) a data processing system for: (i) receiving a request from a location consumer for information about the current location of the location owner; (ii) in response to the receipt of the request from the location consumer for information about the location of the location owner, obtaining location owner profile information from said data storage associated with said location owner; (iii) obtaining from at least one third-party location provider information about the current location of said location owner; (iv) processing the information provided by the at least one third-party location provider about the current location of said location owner in accordance with said location owner profile information obtained from said data storage; and (v) transmitting the result of said processing of the information provided by said third-party location provider to said location consumer requesting information about the current location of said location owner.