Peer-to-peer notification of journey progression

摘要

This invention allows person to person notification of progress along a journey between two geographical locations. The notifications provide measures of elapsed time elapsed, the distance covered and the distance remaining. When setting off to reach a destination 3, the service will notify the travelers progress to a set of one or more chosen recipients C, via a real time audible tone to the recipient's(s') device(s). When the traveller reaches the destination 3, the traveller can manually initiate a final notification, to a set of one or more chosen recipients at the destination and / or located elsewhere. It will be possible for an organiser of an event to invite attendees to utilise the service to send notifications to the organiser of their progress and to other individuals attending or not attending the event. This invention is delivered as a mobile App, designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.