Patent ID: 8243897

Claim:
A method for notifying of a person of interest, comprising: detecting by a computing device an identification device located within an area; receiving at the computing device from the identification device an identification of a person associated with the identification device; sending the identification of the person associated with the identification device from the computing device to a server; in response to the sending of the identification, receiving at the computing device from the server, information about the person associated with the identification device; searching by the computing device information associated with an application stored on the computing device to determine based on the received information if the person associated with the identification device is listed in the searched information; determining by the computing device that the person associated with the identification device is the person of interest when the searching results in the determining that the person associated with the identification device is listed in the searched information; and presenting by the computing device a notification to a user, the notification notifying the user that the person of interest is located in the area.