Patent ID: 9319470
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A location-based social networking system, comprising: a server; a database in electronic communication with the server, the database having a plurality of content, each of the plurality of content associated with a content location and one of a plurality of content channels; at least one mobile device; a content viewer on the mobile device in electronic communication with the server over the Internet, the content viewer showing a subset of the plurality of content to a user, the content location associated with each of the subset of the plurality of content within a predetermined distance of a current location of the mobile device, the subset of the plurality of content changing as the current location of the mobile device changes; a channel selector on the mobile device for the user to select one of the plurality of content channels, upon selection the subset of the plurality of content changing to include only content associated with the selected content channel; a content creator on the mobile device accepting new content from the user, the new content associated with a new content location, the creation of the new content only allowed if the new content location at the current location of the mobile device, upon creation the new content stored in the database as one of the plurality of content; and an interface on the server and in electronic communication with one or more providers over the Internet, the interface receiving some of the plurality of content from one of the one or more providers.