US9565261B2 · Google Patents →
A sibling of US10524091B2 covering the same idea — location in the Skype contact list — with a different claim scope. The earlier filing that got the ball rolling.
A method of communicating location information relating to a first user of a first communication client from a first user terminal over a communications system to a second user terminal, the first user terminal executing the first communication client and the second user terminal executing a second communication client, the method comprising:
- the second communication client displaying a list of contacts associated with a second user of the second communication client, the list of contacts comprising a first contact representing the first user;
- the first user terminal determining a location of the first user; the first user terminal storing the determined location in a store of the first user terminal;
- the first communication client reading the stored location from the store;
- the first communication client generating a message comprising a visual indication of the location read from the store;
- transmitting the message from the first user terminal to the second user terminal; and displaying the visual indication of the location on the second user terminal in the contact list in association with the first contact.
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Cited by 26 subsequent patents — largely shared with its sibling US10524091B2 — filed by Cisco, Apple, Google, Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, IBM, T-Mobile and Tencent.
