Patent ID: 8626194

Claim:
A method, used by a location based service system including at least one server having at least one network interface, of maintaining a location history of identified physical named locations visited by a user of a wireless device having a wireless communication interface and a geographic location sensor, comprising the acts of: a) receiving, from the wireless device, geographic location information corresponding to the geographic location of the wireless device determined using the geographic location sensor of the wireless device; b) storing, in a memory of the location based service system, the geographic location information and a time associated with the geographic location information in a data structure associated with the user; c) transmitting, to the wireless device, at least one of a plurality of named locations near the received geographic location of the wireless device based on a database including named locations and associated geographic location information; d) receiving, from the wireless device, an indicated named location, selected from the at least one of a plurality of named locations, corresponding to the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device to register the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device; and, e) storing information indicating that the user of the wireless device visited the physical named location in a location history associated with the user.