USER DEFINED NAMES FOR DISPLAYING MONITORED LOCATION

摘要

A user's location may be tracked by tracking a device associated with the user. The user's location may be published (e.g. on a website) using a user defined name or some other name that is not related to the coordinates of the location based on the tracked location of the device. If published to a website, the name may be uploaded to the website in a user-editable area of the website, which area may or may not be directed to tracking the location of the user. The device may also be configured to trigger reminders based on whether the device is leaving an area and/or based on whether the device is approaching a location based on a location's membership in a class of locations (e.g. approaching a grocery store).

主权项

1. A mobile computing device, comprising:
a location determining circuit configured to receive data indicative of a current location of the mobile computing device; a memory; and a processing circuit configured to receive data indicative of user-defined names associated with locations, store the user-defined names associated with the locations in the memory; receive data indicative of a current location of the mobile computing device from the location determining circuit; determine whether the current location is associated with a single user-defined name or multiple user-defined names of the user defined names, wherein the multiple user-defined names comprise a plurality of generic names for the current location associated by a user; prompt for a selection from multiple user-defined names when the current location is associated with multiple user-defined names; and provide a user-defined name associated with the current location when the current location is associated with a single user-defined name or a selected user-defined name from among those associated with the current location when the current location is associated with multiple user-defined names.