Patent ID: 9357350
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G01C,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for facilitating social gatherings for a common-interest community of anonymous portable device users, the method comprising: storing in a tangible computer-readable storage medium information associating each of a plurality of portable digital devices to one or more common-interest communities; receiving, by a computing device from a wide area network, information indicative of the 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 preselected proximity to at least one other portable digital device associated with the selected community; when the preselected number of portable digital devices which are each associated to the selected community have entered within the preselected proximity to at least one other portable digital device associated with the selected community, sending, by a computing device, information configured to create a display of a geographic location for the selectedly proximate digital devices to other portable digital devices which are associated with the selected community; storing, by a computing device, in a tangible computer-readable storage medium, the total number of selectedly proximate digital devices in a selected geographic area; receiving, by a computing device from a wide area network, information indicative of the geographic location of each of the selectedly proximate portable digital devices; determining, by a computing device, if a selectedly proximate portable digital devices leaves the preselected proximity to at least one other portable digital device; and storing, by a computing device in the storage medium, an adjusted total number of selectedly proximate digital devices in the selected geographic area.