US10524091B2 · Google Patents →
Share your own and view your friends locations in your Skype contact list. TL;DR "Find My Friends", before Apple made it.
Communicating location information for a first user of a first communication client from a first user terminal over a communications system to a second user terminal is described.
A second communication client executed by the second user terminal displays a list of contacts associated with a second user of the second communication client that comprises a first contact representing the first user.
The first user terminal determines a location of the first user and stores the determined location in a store of the first user terminal.
The first communication client reads the stored location from the store. The first communication client further generates a message comprising a visual indication of the location read from the store and transmits the message to the second user terminal.
The visual indication of the location is displayed on the second user terminal in the contact list in association with the first contact.
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Cited by 26 subsequent patents filed by Cisco, Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Google, Tencent, IBM, Ericsson and T-Mobile, spanning location-aware messaging, voice interfaces, VoIP security and geographic presence.
