Patent ID: 8605094
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: G06T,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying one or more friends of a user, wherein the user and the one or more friends are connected in a social network; receiving an indication of a first future date from the user of a computing device, wherein the first future date is a date in the future and does not include the current date; for each of the one or more friends, gathering future trip information of the one or more friends, the trip information including respective second future dates and corresponding future locations indicating respective physical locations of each of the one or more friends at the respective second future dates; determining, based on the gathered trip information, that one or more friends of the user in the social network are going to be physically present at one or more respective future locations on a respective second future date that matches the first future date; in response to the determining, displaying a geographic map on the computing device, the geographic map including a display of the first future date relative to the geographic map, and also including a friend representation corresponding to each of the one or more future locations where the one or more friend of the user are going to be physically present, wherein each friend representation is displayed on the geographic map on the future location it corresponds to, each friend representation is a marker that includes a dynamic content area surrounded by a static border, and each friend representation including a number displayed on the friend representation in the dynamic content area, wherein the number indicates the number of friends of the user that are physically present at the respective future location on the first future date, wherein a friend is physically present if the friend is local to the respective future location or is visiting the respective future location; receiving, from the user, a selection of one of the friend representations displayed on the geographic map; and displaying on the computing device in response to receiving the selection of one of the friend representations, relative to the geographic map, at least one of: wherein the list is displayed relative to the geographic map.