Patent ID: 8768379

Claim:
A method, used by a location based service system including at least one server having at least one network interface, of identifying a physical named location visited by a user of a wireless device having a wireless communication interface and a geographic location sensor, storing the identified named location in a location history associated with the user, and recommending a business of interest to the user, comprising the acts of: a) receiving, from the wireless device, geographic location information corresponding to the geographic location of the wireless device determined based at least in part on information from the geographic location sensor of the wireless device; b) transmitting, to the wireless device, the name of at least two of a plurality of named locations selected because they are near the geographic location of the wireless device based on a database including named locations and associated geographic location information; c) receiving, from the wireless device, an indicated named location, selected from the at least two of a plurality of named locations, corresponding to the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device to verify the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device; d) storing information indicating that the user of the wireless device visited the physical named location in the location history associated with the user; e) receiving at a subsequent time, from the wireless device, geographic location information corresponding to an updated geographic location of the wireless device determined based at least in part on information from the geographic location sensor of the wireless device; and, f) transmitting, to the wireless device, a recommended business of interest to the user, based on the updated geographic location of the wireless device and the location history associated with the user.