Patent ID: 6867733

Claim:
A method of providing the location of a second mobile unit to a first mobile unit, said method comprising: maintaining personal profiles each associated with a user of one of said first and second mobile units, each personal profile specifying an access condition under which another user may access that personal profile; receiving from said first mobile unit a first packet including a current location of said first mobile unit; receiving from said second mobile unit a second packet including a current location of said second mobile unit; storing said current locations in a database; receiving a request from a user of said first mobile unit specifying a condition based on said current location of said first mobile unit or a future location of said first mobile unit; and upon ascertaining that said user of said first mobile unit satisfies said access condition in the user profile of a user associated with said second mobile unit, transmitting a data package to said first mobile unit in response to a said request from said first mobile unit upon satisfaction of said condition, wherein said data package comprises said current location of said second mobile unit retrieved from said database.