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Networks In Motion Issued Patent
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Networks In Motion (NIM), a wireless navigation, hyper local search,
and location-based services (LBS) company with the largest mobile phone
navigation subscriber base in North America, announced that it was
issued U.S. Patent No. 7,333,820, titled "Position Determination
System," which protects its intellectual property involving social
networking applications such as requesting and/or pushing a user's
location via a GPS-enabled mobile device through a wireless network.
NIM's patent features a method of providing real-time position
information from one person to another by utilizing a traditional
telephone, a mobile phone, a computer network, or the Internet. The
invention allows a caller and a receiver of a telephone call to
exchange position information related to the caller and/or receiver's
physical location, including address information, GPS coordinates, or
nearby fixed locations such as a restaurant or parking structure.
Additionally, NIM's patent allows a caller and receiver to retrieve
routing instructions or maps for traveling to or from each other's
location. With NIM's patent, a person can locate the position of their
friend on their phone or computer by entering their friend's mobile
phone number, or find them in their address book or instant message
buddy list.
"Social networking is already hugely popular on the Internet and we had
a vision years ago when filing for this patent that people would want a
way to easily keep in touch and meet up with their friends using their
mobile phone," said Doug Antone, president and CEO of Networks In
Motion. "With NIM's expertise in navigation, we feel well-suited to
provide consumers an easy-to-use solution for finding one another."
Some of the patented features have already been brought to market in
NIM's mobile phone navigation and local search applications on major
wireless carriers. A social networking aspect of NIM's software
platform AtlasBook Navigator, called place messaging, allows a user to
send a greeting along with their GPS location to a friend so they can
easily meet up with each other. For example, a subscriber can search
for a restaurant and send the destination to their friend along with a
message about a time to meet. If the friend is a subscriber they will
get audible turn-by-turn directions to the destination; if they're not
a navigation subscriber, they'll receive static directions as a text
message.
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