System and method for sharing location information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9219989-B2
Application number	US-201314091785-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2013
Priority date	Jul 18, 2008
Publication date	Dec 22, 2015
Grant date	Dec 22, 2015

Abstract

In a particular embodiment, a method includes requesting, at a first communication device, location information from multiple communication devices. The method also includes recording, at the first communication device, a particular location coordinate received from a closest communication device of the multiple communication devices. The method further includes adjusting the particular location coordinate based on triangulation data associated with the closest communication device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
sending, from a first communication device, requests for location information to multiple communication devices in a transmission range of the first communication device, wherein the location information for a particular communication device of the multiple communication devices includes a location coordinate for the particular communication device;
receiving the location information from responding communication devices of the multip…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Belz Steven M
• Brandt Jeffrey

Classifications

• H04W64/003

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G01S5/0063

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01S5/10

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W4/025 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W64/00

  Electricity · mapped topic