Patent ID: 8229458

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, 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) transmitting, to the wireless device, a plurality of named locations 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 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; and d) storing information indicating that the user of the wireless device visited the physical named location.