{"id":625633,"date":"2010-01-08T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"12169 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-01-08T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:20:47","slug":"palm-files-for-location-sharing-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/625633","title":{"rendered":"Palm Files for Location-Sharing Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"351\" width=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Dieter%20Bohn\/2010\/01\/palmlocationsharing.jpg?resize=310%2C351\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gorumors.com\/palm-to-introduce-location-sharing-among-users\/275163\">GoRumors<\/a> noticed a <a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-adv.html&amp;r=2&amp;p=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PG01&amp;S1=palm.AS.&amp;OS=an\/palm&amp;RS=AN\/palm\">Palm Patent filing<\/a> titled, creatively enough, &quot;Notification on mobile device based on location of other mobile device,&quot; which basically describes exactly what the patent is for:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><em>The processing circuit is configured to receive user input from the user input device indicative of a request to associate the stored data with a second mobile computing device, to receive an indication that the second mobile computing device is proximate to the mobile computing device, and to provide a notification to the user via the output device based on the indication.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Sure, we can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/how-get-twitchy-pre-release-version-google-latitude-webos-without-patch\">hack together Google Latitude<\/a> if we want, but wouldn&#8217;t it give you a warmer, fuzzier feeling to know that a fellow Palm lover is nearby, not just another Googler? As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/08\/palm-files-patent-for-gps-based-location-sharing-service\/\">Engadget notes<\/a>, the patent also includes location-based reminders. Hopefully it all of those features will mean that the dream of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/roger-mcnamee-our-hero\">our hero<\/a>, Roger McNamee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/palm-files-clarifications-and-corrections-mcnamee-interviews\">dream of super-location-reminders<\/a> can come true.<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\"><em>Thanks to everybody who sent this in!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=cTiXxbXqaWA:kul-e0vBI6M:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=cTiXxbXqaWA:kul-e0vBI6M:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=cTiXxbXqaWA:kul-e0vBI6M:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=cTiXxbXqaWA:kul-e0vBI6M:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=cTiXxbXqaWA:kul-e0vBI6M:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/cTiXxbXqaWA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoRumors noticed a Palm Patent filing titled, creatively enough, &quot;Notification on mobile device based on location of other mobile device,&quot; which basically describes exactly what the patent is for: The processing circuit is configured to receive user input from the user input device indicative of a request to associate the stored data with a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2CKR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}