Patent ID: 9691106
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for locating people, the method comprising: identifying, by a mobile data processing system, a number of degrees of separation from a requestor in searching for the people; searching, by the mobile data processing system, a network data processing system for data structures that contain information about associations between the people that are within the number of degrees of separation from the requestor to generate an initial group of people; defining a geographic boundary for the searching by receiving a drawing of a boundary with an irregular shape on a map; identifying, by the mobile data processing system, a group of people from the initial group of people that are within a geographic location based on a location of the mobile data processing system and a portion of the group of people who are online; and displaying, by the mobile data processing system, the portion of the group of people on a display device for the mobile data processing system; displaying a first control and a second control, the first control to change the display to a relationship view and the second control to change the display to a map view; displaying, in the relationship view: displaying, in the map view: