Determining a geographic location of a mobile device

摘要

Systems and methods for providing a geographic location of a mobile device are provided. In one aspect, a method includes determining a geographic location of the mobile device. The method also includes storing the determined geographic location in a geographic location history in a local memory of the mobile device. The geographic location of the mobile device is determined and stored in the geographic location history at a first time interval. The method also includes providing the geographic location history to a server at a second time interval. The second time interval is longer than the first time interval.

主权项

1. A method, implemented on a server, for providing a geographic location of a mobile device via a geographic locating service, the method comprising:
receiving, from a computer associated with a first user of the geographic locating service, a request for a current geographic location of a second user of the geographic locating service; determining if a geographic location of a mobile device associated with the second user obtained within a predefined time period before a current time is stored within a data memory associated with the server and, if so, transmitting, to the computer associated with the first user, the geographic location of the mobile device associated with the second user, otherwise:
transmitting, to the mobile device associated with the second user, a request for a current geographic location of the mobile device;receiving, in response to the request for the current geographic location of the mobile device, a geographic location history of the mobile device, the geographic location history comprising the current geographic location of the mobile device;storing, within the data memory associated with the server, the geographic location history of the mobile device associated with the second user; andtransmitting, to the computer associated with the first user, the current geographic location of the mobile device associated with the second user.