Patent ID: 7974638

Claim:
A method for locating at least one locatee located remotely from a broadcast network, comprising the steps of: receiving user-profile criteria from a communicator device associated with a locator; receiving user-profile criteria from a communicator device associated with a locatee; matching the user-profile criteria associated with the locator with user-profile criteria associated with the locatee as well as real-time locations of the communicator devices associated with the locator and the locatee to generate a data set of locatees having similar user-profile criteria and being within a pre-determined spatial range with respect to the communicator device associated with the locator; and transmitting the data set of locatees having similar user-profile criteria to the communicator device associated with the locator based upon the matching of the user-profile criteria associated with the locator with the user-profile criteria associated with the locatee.