U.S. Patent 7848765 was awarded to Where, Inc. on 2010-12-07 and describes a “Location-based services.” This patent has been cited 245 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative control patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as social networking, providing demographic information, tracking mobile devices, providing business information, providing an adaptable user interface, remotely effecting a change on a portable electronic device, providing a geofence, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to and from a mobile device, providing location-based alerts, verifying transactions and tailoring information to the behavior of a user. Link: U.S. Patent 7848765

This patent was originally filed on 2005-05-27 which gives it a processing time of 2020 days, compared to an average processing time of 1613 in the field. Where, Inc. has 4 total patents. The first named inventor is Alan D. Phillips of Hopkinton, MA. The primary examiner was Nghi H Ly.

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