Patent ID: 8140621

Claim:
A system for providing event data to a group of contacts, the system comprising: a data store that stores event records, each event record including data related to a social event; and a computing device in communication with the data store, the computing device configured to: obtain from a mobile computing device, a request to coordinate a social event of interest to a group of contacts who are to participate in the social event, the request including data related to the social event of interest to the group of contacts who are to participate in the social event; generate an event record based at least in part on the request obtained from the mobile computing device, the event record including the data related to the social event of interest to the group of contacts, which data is updated as the social event occurs; and publish the data related to the social event of interest to one or more contact computing devices, each contact computing device associated with a contact of the group, wherein the event data is published such that the data related to the social event of interest is displayed substantially continuously upon the contact computing device as the social event occurs and the data is updated, and until another action is taken by the contact associated with the contact computing device, in which case the data related to the social event of interest is automatically redisplayed substantially continuously upon the contact computing device following completion of the action taken by the contact.