Patent ID: 8521190

Claim:
A method of operating a first communications device to support interactive location-based information sharing comprising: detecting a signal indicating that a second communications device in wireless communications range of said first communications device supports user generated locally relevant point of interest information sharing; transmitting to said second communications device user generated information to be stored in said second communications device and shared with a third communications device corresponding to another user within wireless communications range of said second communications device; and transmitting, to said second communications device, sharing information indicating multiple constraints placed by said first communications device on sharing of said user generated information transmitted by the first communications device to the second communications device, said sharing information precluding said user generated information transmitted to the second communications device from being transmitted from said second communications device to a server or core network node and limiting sharing of said user generated information to providing of said user generated information to users who have expressed an interest in comments by the user leaving the information.