A patent for a method of sharing location data during a phone call is received by Apple. You can suppose that this idea is executed in the Apple’s phone by Apple, so when you press a button on your iphone during a phone call and request location data from the person you are talking to. Before the data is sent back to you, the receiver would always have to give permission, according to the description of this new feature in the patent.
You have to do request by pressing button on your iphone and it will releases location info can be found right underneath the standard iPhone phone interface according to the Apple’s patent graph. If this feature is implemented by Apple, it will work akin to this:
“By pressing a button on your phone interface, you have to send a request to get your friend’s exact location during a call. When you press the button your friend get an alert and he has choice to send his location data back to you or to ignore your request. If your friend wants to share his location with you, then you will get an alert with your friend’s location.”
You need not to give long-winded and error-prone descriptions of where you are when you plan to meet up with a friend in the city by this feature. When you read through the patent then it becomes clear that with the privacy aspects of sharing location data, Apple is quite anxious. This makes logic that sharing location data has solitude inferences to go far further than just allotment what you had for lunch.
MobileMe users can already check where their phones are at any given point and it is worth noting and all the necessary hardware to execute this feature is already available in every iPhone.
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