Overview of SmartZone BuddyFinder

BuddyFinder is a mobile finder and alert service that allows a user to locate their friends, family and colleagues and receive notifications of their proximity via WAP, Web and SMS. Feature-packed, but easy to use, privacy and configuration management is also provided to allow people to determine by whom, where and when they can be located.

Webraska's BuddyFindaer application offers a unique community service that allows friends, families and colleagues find one another. The distinct services provided include:

• User initiated proximity searches to locate buddies.
• Buddy alerts to signal when buddies are nearby.
• Comprehensive privacy management.

Benefits

• Increase service usage in voice, messaging as well as basic and value-added data services.
• Improve customer retention/loyalty.
• Provide a quick and easy way for friends, family and colleagues to maintain contact.

Features

• Buddy List defined and grouped according to subscriber preferences, e.g. friends, family, coworkers.
• Buddy Handshake ensures that buddies can find one another only once invitations to become buddies have been accepted.
• Buddy Search to find nearby buddies within a user-defined search radius, by individual or groups (rank buddies in order of proximity, get approximate address.)
• Buddy Moods enhance the user experience by displaying a user-defined mood to individual buddies or the entire buddy list.
• Buddy blocking by individual, group or globally.
• Location override to set a default location such as work.
• Standard or user-defined away messages.
• History maintained to view buddies who have tried to locate the subscriber.
• User activated SMS alerts when a buddy is within a certain proximity at specified times.