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System for creating anonymous social gatherings

  • US 9,801,020 B2
  • Filed: 05/30/2016
  • Issued: 10/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for facilitating social gatherings for a common-interest community of portable device users, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a computing device over a wide area network, information associating each of a plurality of portable digital devices to one or more common-interest communities;

    storing in a tangible computer-readable storage medium the information associating each of the plurality of portable digital devices to the one or more common-interest communities;

    tracking by a computing device through a wide area network, the variable geographic location of selected ones of the plurality of portable digital devices;

    determining, by a computing device, that a preselected number of portable digital devices which are each associated to a selected community have entered within a first preselected proximity to each other; and

    after the preselected number of portable digital devices which are each associated to the selected community have entered within the first preselected proximity to each other, sending, by a computing device, information configured to create a display of a geographic location for the selectedly proximate digital devices to at least one other portable digital device which is associated with the selected community and which is within a second preselected proximity to the preselected number of portable devices.

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