Patent ID: 8363086

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device via short-range wireless communication, a message from a short-range wireless device, the message including: contact information of a remote computing device that is external both to the computing device and to the short-range wireless device, location information associated with the short-range wireless device, and authentication information usable by the computing device to authenticate the short-range wireless device; responsive to receiving the message from the short-range wireless device, determining if the short-range wireless device is authorized to cause the computing device to automatically initiate communications with the remote computing device by authenticating the short-range wireless device based on the authentication information; if the short-range wireless device is successfully authenticated based on the authentication information, automatically initiating communications, by the computing device with the remote computing device based on the contact information; and after initiating communications with the remote computing device, communicating the location information associated with the short-range wireless device to the remote computing device.