Communicating information describing current or activity of computer system users among computer system users

摘要

A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
(a) receiving, at a computer system, location information and status information from a mobile device of a user of the computer system,
(i) the location information representing a geographic location of the user, and(ii) the status information manually provided by the user on the mobile device; (b) storing the location information and the status information of the user in a database maintained by the computer system; and (c) sending the status information and the location information of the user to an additional user of the computer system for display, the additional user granted access by the user to the status information and the location information by the user.