Patent ID: 8085813

Claim:
A method of routing data stored on a first device over a telecommunications network to a second device wherein the transmission path is based in part on geographic position, the method comprising: contacting a second device's home network server over the transmission path between the first device and the second device's home network server, wherein the second device geographic position is stored as at least a part of a modified internet protocol address on the home network server and periodically updated after the location of the second device changes; sending a request from the first device for the second device geographic position to the home network server; receiving at the first device, the second device geographic position as a part of the geo-position based internet protocol address from the home network server over the transmission path into memory; transmitting the data and second device geographic position as a part of the geo-position based internet protocol address from the first device over the transmission path to a node having a node geographic position, wherein the node reads the second device geographic position, accesses a recipient geographic position for possible recipients, accesses the node geographic position, compares the node geographic position with the second device geographic position and selects a recipient based at least in part on the geographic proximity of the recipient to the second device; and transmitting the data from the node to the recipient over the transmission path.