Patent ID: 7386464
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G06Q,G08B,H04L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A network-based contact management system, comprising: a user interface represented in a server, said user interface providing functionality for users to specify personal travel plans data, and to specify permissions data that identifies other users that are authorized to be notified of travel events specified by the personal travel plans data; a database that stores the personal travel plans data and permissions data specified by the users via the user interface; and a program module executed by at least one computer, wherein the program module analyzes the travel plans data in accordance with the permissions data to detect, and notify users of, crossing paths events in which two users are scheduled to be in a common location during travel by at least one of the two users, wherein the program module detects crossing paths events for a first user that is scheduled to travel to a destination location, at least in part, by doing at least one of the following: (a) searching for contacts of the first user that are scheduled to travel to within a selected distance of the destination location; (b) searching for contacts of the first user that live within a selected distance of the destination location.