Patent ID: 8885622

Claim:
A method of transmitting location information within a network having a first server and a second server comprising: a first terminal device determining a geographical location of the first terminal device; the first terminal device determining location information based on the determined geographical location of the terminal device; the first terminal device forming a message having a header and a body, the header having a location information identifier identifying a presence of the location information within the body and a data type identifier identifying a data type of the location information, the body having the location information and address information, the address information identifying the second server as an intended recipient of the location information; the first terminal device sending the message to the first server; in response to receiving the message, the first server determining the location information is intended for the second server based on the address information of the message and subsequently sending the location information to the second server; the second server receiving the location information from the first server and subsequently processing the location information to alter a format of the location information so that the processed location information is in a format capable of being processed by a second terminal device and subsequently transmitting the processed location information to the second terminal device; the second terminal device receiving the processed location information transmitted by the second server; the second terminal device displaying the geographical location of the first terminal device as a representation based on the received processed location information transmitted by the second server, the representation having at least two dimensions for illustrating the geographical location of the first terminal device.