This is patent is so silly that prior art can be found anywhere. For example XMPP folks have specs initially published in 2003 describing the same exact scenario:
This document defines a format for capturing data about an entity's geographical location (geoloc). The format defined herein can describe most earthbound geographical locations, especially locations that may change fairly frequently. Potential uses for this approach include:
Publishing location information to a set of subscribers. Querying another entity for its location. Sending location information to another entity. Attaching location information to presence. Geographical location is captured in terms of Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates as well as civil location (city, street, building, etc.).
I'm not joking: the high presence of yahoo links in Google's search results may depend on their scoring system. Google uses page ranks (basically the more a page is linked the more it is scored) and referring link text. Yahoo pages are a lot linked from outside, as usually all pages of links point to the corresponding yahoo category, making them have a high score. In fact also in the Google beginnings (I'm using Google since '98) yahoo links were very popular in the results, it's nothing of new.
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This is patent is so silly that prior art can be found anywhere. For example XMPP folks have specs initially published in 2003 describing the same exact scenario:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html (User Location)
This document defines a format for capturing data about an entity's geographical location (geoloc). The format defined herein can describe most earthbound geographical locations, especially locations that may change fairly frequently. Potential uses for this approach include:
Publishing location information to a set of subscribers.
Querying another entity for its location.
Sending location information to another entity.
Attaching location information to presence.
Geographical location is captured in terms of Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates as well as civil location (city, street, building, etc.).
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I got IT: it's teletransportation.
I'm not joking: the high presence of yahoo links in Google's search results may depend on their scoring system. Google uses page ranks (basically the more a page is linked the more it is scored) and referring link text. Yahoo pages are a lot linked from outside, as usually all pages of links point to the corresponding yahoo category, making them have a high score. In fact also in the Google beginnings (I'm using Google since '98) yahoo links were very popular in the results, it's nothing of new.