Patent ID: 8892126

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: at a first time of day, 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; selecting a plurality of named locations near the geographic location of the wireless device at which the user may be located from a database including named locations and associated geographic location information, and wherein the selecting of the plurality of named locations is performed using information representative of the first time of day; communicating, to the wireless device, the plurality of named locations; receiving, from the wireless device, an indicated physical named location, chosen from the plurality of named locations, corresponding to the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device to verify that the physical named location has been visited by the user of the wireless device; and storing information in a location history associated with the user indicating: (i) that the user of the wireless device visited the indicated physical named location, and (ii) a time of the user's visit to the indicated physical named location.