Patent ID: 7792297

Claim:
A method for communicating text or image information between a plurality of first computers and a second computer coupled to a communications network dependent on geographic locations of the first computers, the method comprising: receiving, at the second computer, a request from a first one of the first computers for particular text or image information provided over the communications network; receiving location information corresponding to a geographic location of said first one of the first computers; receiving, at the second computer, a request from a second one of the first computers for the particular text or image information provided over the communications network; receiving location information corresponding to a geographic location of said second one of the first computers; determining, from the location information, whether or not the geographic location of said first one of the first computers is within one or more predefined regions; determining, from the location information, whether or not the geographic location of said second one of the first computers is within the one or more predefined regions; and providing said first one of the first computers access to a first text or image information over the communications network in response to the request from said first one of the first computers for the particular text or image information, upon the geographic location of said first one of the first computers being determined to be within a predefined region; and providing said second one of the first computers access to a second text or image information in response to the request from said second one of the first computers for the particular text or image information, upon the geographic location of said second one of the first computers not determined to be within one of the predefined regions, wherein the second text or image information is different from the first text or image information; wherein one of the first and second text or image information is a partial version of the other one of the first and second text or image information; and wherein the partial version of the one of the first and second text or image information is unrelated to the relative distance between the geographic locations of said first and second ones of the first computers.