Social network for travelers with layovers
First Claim
1. A computer system providing a social network for traveling people, the computer system comprising:
- a server computer;
software executing on the server computer maintains a list of members and, for each member in the list of members, the software maintains a list of buddies of the each member, the buddies also being in the list of members, each member having at least one association to a unique person identifier;
the software downloads at least one schedule from one or more pre-determined schedule systems, each of the at least one schedule created by the one or more schedule systems without direct input from the each member, each schedule comprising a plurality of records, each of the records comprising a person identifier, at least one date/time, and at least one location, the person identifier uniquely identifies a person associated with the each record;
the software searches each of the at least one schedule for a subset of the records in which the person identifier corresponds with the unique person identifier of any member of the list of members and the software creates layover entries from the subset of the records, each of the layover entries comprise the member, a layover location, and a layover date/time;
the software searches the layover entries for overlapping layovers, the overlapping layover determined by a first member of the list of members having a layover that overlaps with a layover of a buddy of the first member; and
for each overlapping layover, the software notifies a person selected from the group consisting of the first member and the buddy who have the overlapping layover.
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Abstract
A computer system that provides a social network for traveling people includes software that maintains a list of members and buddies of the members. Each member has at least one association to a unique person identifier. The software downloads schedule(s) from pre-determined schedule system(s). Each schedule has records with a person identifier, at least one date/time, and a location. The software searches the schedule(s) and extracts a subset of records in which the person identifier corresponds with the unique person identifier of any member and the software creates layover entries from the subset. The software searches the layover entries for overlapping layovers, determined by a first member having a layover that overlaps with a layover of a buddy member (e.g. having the same or similar location). For each overlapping layover, the software notifies either the member and/or the buddy who have the overlapping layover.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer system providing a social network for traveling people, the computer system comprising:
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a server computer; software executing on the server computer maintains a list of members and, for each member in the list of members, the software maintains a list of buddies of the each member, the buddies also being in the list of members, each member having at least one association to a unique person identifier; the software downloads at least one schedule from one or more pre-determined schedule systems, each of the at least one schedule created by the one or more schedule systems without direct input from the each member, each schedule comprising a plurality of records, each of the records comprising a person identifier, at least one date/time, and at least one location, the person identifier uniquely identifies a person associated with the each record; the software searches each of the at least one schedule for a subset of the records in which the person identifier corresponds with the unique person identifier of any member of the list of members and the software creates layover entries from the subset of the records, each of the layover entries comprise the member, a layover location, and a layover date/time; the software searches the layover entries for overlapping layovers, the overlapping layover determined by a first member of the list of members having a layover that overlaps with a layover of a buddy of the first member; and for each overlapping layover, the software notifies a person selected from the group consisting of the first member and the buddy who have the overlapping layover. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of notifying members of a social network of upcoming overlapping layovers comprising:
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(a) maintaining a list of members and, for each member, maintaining a list of buddies of the each member, each member having at least one association to at least one unique identifier; (b) downloading at least one schedule from at least one pre-determined schedule system, each of the at least one schedule created at a corresponding one of the at least one schedule systems without direct input from any member of the list of members, each record of the at least one schedule comprising a person identifier, a date, and a location, wherein the person identifiers uniquely identify one person; (c) for each record, if the person identifier matches the unique identifier of a member, saving a layover data record including the member, the date, and the location; and (d) for each of the layover data records, searching the layover data records for a buddy having an overlapping layover data record, and if the searching finds an overlapping layover data record, automatically notifying the member of the overlapping layover. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. Program instructions tangibly embodied in a non-transitory storage medium for notifying of upcoming overlapping layovers, wherein the at least one instruction comprises:
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(a) computer readable instructions maintain a list of members and, for each member, maintain a list of buddies of the each member, each member having at least one association to at least one unique identifier; (b) computer readable instructions download at least one schedule, each of the at least one schedule created on a pre-determined schedule system without direct input from any member in the list of members, each of the at least one schedules comprising a plurality of records, each of the records comprising a person identifier, at least one date, and at least one location; (c) computer readable instructions extract layover data from the records in which the person identifier in the record corresponds with the unique identifier of any member of the list of members, the layover data comprises the any member, a layover location, and a layover time period, wherein the person identifier assists in uniquely identifying a correspondence between the records in the schedules and the any member of the list of members; (d) computer readable instructions search the layover data for a set of overlapping layovers in which a layover of the member and a layover of a buddy of the member have the same location; (e) for each overlapping layover in the set of overlapping layovers, computer readable instructions notify the member and/or the buddy of the overlapping layover; (f) periodically repeating steps (b) and (e). - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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