Patent ID: 8639410

Claim:
A computing system for facilitating assistance requests, comprising: a memory; and a processor resource coupled to the memory to: determine a current location of a requester requesting assistance; identify other users within a particular area of the requester's current location that are registered in an assistance network as available for providing assistance and a time period the requester is willing to wait for assistance; send a request to each of the identified other users, wherein the request includes desired assistance of the requester; receive a response from a number of the available identified other users; determine a list from the number of the available identified other users that fit a selection criteria of the requester; present the list to the requester; receive a number of rejections, from the requester, for a number of the available identified other users presented in the list, wherein the number of rejections correspond to available identified other users that are rejected from performing the desired assistance; receive an acceptance, from the requester, for one of the number of available identified other users presented in the list to perform the desired assistance; and receive feedback, from the requester, relating to the one of the number of available identified other users that performed the desired assistance.