Patent ID: 9325755
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
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, the software maintains a list of buddies of the each member, the buddies also being in the list of members; the software downloads at least one schedule from one or more pre-determined schedule systems without user intervention, 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 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 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 an overlapping layover, 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, at a predetermined time, concurrently notifies both the first member and the buddy who have the overlapping layover.