Patent ID: 8751509

Claim:
A computer system providing a social network for traveling people, the computer system comprising: a server computer; software executing on the server computer maintains a list of members and, for each member in the list of members, the software maintains a list of buddies of the each member, the buddies also being in the list of members, each member having at least one association to a unique person identifier; the software downloads at least one schedule from one or more pre-determined schedule systems, each of the at least one schedule created by the one or more schedule systems without direct input from the each member, each schedule comprising a plurality of records, each of the records comprising a person identifier, at least one date/time, and at least one location, the person identifier uniquely identifies a person associated with the each record; the software searches each of the at least one schedule for a subset of the records in which the person identifier corresponds with the unique person identifier of any member of the list of members and the software creates layover entries from the subset of the records, each of the layover entries comprise the member, a layover location, and a layover date/time; the software searches the layover entries for overlapping layovers, the overlapping layover determined by a first member of the list of members having a layover that overlaps with a layover of a buddy of the first member; and for each overlapping layover, the software notifies a person selected from the group consisting of the first member and the buddy who have the overlapping layover.