Patent ID: 9208506
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A process, comprising: a) registering, by a fan network management system (FNMS) through a communication network, a plurality of fans, through their respective portable smart devices (PSDs), to participate in event networking services (ENSs) provided by the FNMS; b) maintaining by the FNMS in computer-accessible tangible storage remote from the registered PSDs c) during a time interval, established by the FNMS and associated with a first event in the list of events, the first event being held at a corresponding first venue in the list of venues, receiving, by the FNMS through a wireless communication interface, from each of a plurality of the PSDs of the registered users, geolocation data that tracks geolocations of the respective PSD; d) determining by a computer-based processing system of the FNMS which of the PSDs from which the FNMS receives geolocation data satisfy the time and geolocation constraints associated with the event, and thereby qualify as fan devices at the first event; e) communicating by the processing system through the wireless communication interface with the fan devices and thereby providing the fan devices with ENSs during the first event; f) for the first event, identifying, and storing in the storage, an inner boundary and an outer boundary, wherein g) for the first event, for each given PSD in a nonempty subset of the registered PSDs,