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Knowing the location of a customer is a precious asset for institutions such as Cellular service providers. Location is an estimation of a mobile phone geographical positioning, based on pre-defined BTS geographical coordinates. Location based services are information services accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability to make use of the location of the mobile device.

The Location Based Instant Messenger is an offering for Cellular Service Providers, that facilitates instant messaging between people in the same vicinity and having similar interests. Following are some of the features of the Location Based Instant Messenger:

Location aware. Location aware. Discovers people in the current physical location of the user (subject to phone compatibility), or location specified by the user

Real-time. Keeps track of user location continuously in the background and dynamically populates the contact list based on location and interests

Instant messaging. Delivers messages instantly using a data connection such as GPRS, also facilitating capturing and delivery of pictures using the handset’s camera

Automatic discovery of chat room. Users automatically become members of room allocated to the cell as soon as the cell location gets changed

Automatic discovery of contacts. The contact list is dynamically populated based on the user present in the current cell location (or the selected location)

Single chat / multi chat. The messenger provides facilities for group chat as well as private chat. Users can even selectively block spammers

Location independent buddies. The messenger allows certain users to be stored as permanent buddies. This ensures that they always remain in the contact list irrespective of the location.

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