Patent ID: 7917154

Claim:
A method for providing location description over a network, comprising: receiving from a client device associated with a member of a social network, a request for location information in the social network associated with a GPS coordinate; providing to the client device, in response to the request for the location information, a location name associated with another member of the social network based on the GPS coordinate; receiving from the client device, in response to the provided location name, another location name; associating the other location name with the GPS coordinate and with the member in the social network, to enable another request for the location information associated with the GPS coordinate to return at least the location name and the other location name, wherein associating the other location name includes increasing a relevancy score for an association between the other location name and the GPS coordinate, and wherein the relevancy score represents a closeness that is based on both the association between the GPS coordinate and the other location name and a frequency of an identification of the GPS coordinate by at least the other location name within the social network; and in response to the other request for the location information, providing the location name and at least the other location name, ordered based on the relevancy score and a degree of separation between the member and the other member within the social network.