Canvas^® PFS, People Finder Service, takes mobility and location awareness to a new level. It enables mobile subscribers to receive location information about selected individuals with their consent. Canvas PFS enables a mobile workforce to be more effective, friends and family members to locate each other in crowded or unfamiliar venues, and users to be alerted when close friends are in the vicinity. It improves user experience in the network and creates new revenue sources from consumers and enterprises for the network operators, without compromising user privacy and network security.

The Canvas brand covers multiple solutions with key components that are optimal for future growth in the evolving next generation networks (3G/IMS). Each Canvas product offers not only a point solution, but also re-usable building blocks that seamlessly integrate with other Canvas products as well as with Telenity partner solutions.

Canvas PFS is a member of the Canvas Converged Value Added Services portfolio. It is a location-based application for GSM/GPRS and CDMA/1XRTT networks. It allows users to locate and communicate with their colleagues, friends and family members who use the same mobile network. Canvas PFS supports opt-in as an essential component to guarantee subscriber privacy, as well as, other anonymity features such as aliases and code words to prevent the subscribers' actual phone number, or identity, being displayed to unauthorized users.

Canvas PFS allows users to get their bearings and find their colleagues and friends easily on a map with enhanced mapping functionalities. It also supports geo-coding, reverse geo-coding, routing information and displaying Point of Interest.

Canvas PFS brings a new meaning to collaboration in the mobile workforce. Other features of Canvas PFS include the following:

Advanced Buddy List Management
Canvas PFS enables subscribers to create and manage buddy lists, allowing them to add, delete or modify entries with ease. Users can maintain and manage multiple buddy lists, for instance one for work, another for family members, yet another for a book club.

Strict User Privacy Control
Canvas PFS gives users the confidence that the system will disclose location information only to those to whom they have consented. The privacy management function enables service providers to give full control into the hands of the subscribers, without creating privacy concerns. Canvas PFS also offers black list feature for additional user privacy.

User Friendly Service Personalization
An intuitive point-and-click subscriber portal allows users to manage their buddy lists and privacy settings. Even within each buddy list, users control who can receive their location information and who cannot. Users can also SMS and WAP to modify their profiles and buddy lists. These user friendly interfaces increase the utility and the penetration of the PFS service.