Patent ID: 8744410

Claim:
A mobile application on a mobile computing device connected to a communications network, comprising: an initiation module for transmitting a request for a transaction identifier to an application server over the communications network and, responsive to said request, receiving a transaction identifier from the application server; a request module for transmitting to a second mobile computing device an SMS message, including a URL containing the transaction identifier, over the communications network; a first receiving module for receiving an SMS message and activating a URL embedded in the SMS message in response to a user command, wherein upon activation of the URL, the first receiving module is further configured for transmitting an HTTP request, including the transaction identifier, to the application server over the communications network; a processing module for receiving program code from the application server via HTTP, responsive to said HTTP request, and executing the program code, which is configured for reading position data of the mobile computing device and transmitting the position data and the transaction identifier to the application server via HTTP over the communications network; and a second receiving module for receiving position data of the second mobile computing device and displaying the position data.