Patent ID: 9730068
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G01C,G07C,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a smartphone or a tablet of a visiting user, a web site and a security system of a visited person, wherein the security system has a secured area, and wherein the visited person is located at a predetermined location within the secured area; downloading, by a processor of the web site, an initial geographical location of the visiting user from the smartphone or the tablet of the visiting user; generating and sending a map, by the processor of the web site, to the smartphone or the tablet based upon the downloaded initial geographical location of the visiting user and the predetermined location of the visited person; displaying, by the smartphone or the tablet, the generated map on a display of the smartphone or the tablet guiding the visiting user from the initial geographical location of the visiting user to the predetermined location of the visited person; dynamically updating, by the processor of the web site, the displayed map displayed on the smartphone or the tablet; generating, by the processor of the website, an identification token for use by the visiting user upon arrival that is used to allow the visiting user access into the secured area without involvement of a receptionist or any other third party; detecting, by the smartphone or the tablet, that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area; posting, by the smartphone or the tablet, on a social media website an indication that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area in response to detecting that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area; and detecting, by the processor of the web site, the indication posted on the social media web site; determining, by the processor of the web site, that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area by reading a subsequent geographic location of the visiting user; automatically notifying, by the processor of the web site, the visited person that the visiting user has arrived in response to the visiting user activating a notify button on the displayed man.