Patent ID: 8270995

Claim:
A method for making a reservation over a wireless network for a group-based activity using a network-independent composite application, the method comprising the acts of: receiving group reservation information for a reservation from an initiating subscriber over the wireless network; registering the composite application with a subscriber location network application to provide triggering criteria including at least one target subscriber, a group name, a predetermined area, and a minimum number of participants to the subscriber location network application; receiving at the composite application a notification from the subscriber location network application indicating that a target subscriber is within the predetermined area; invoking a persona network application by the composite application automatically based on said notification to check network presence status information of the target subscriber to determine an availability of said target subscriber; invoking an opt-in network application by the composite application to provide, if available, said target subscriber with an option to participate in said group-based activity; invoking a network reservation application by the composite application to make a reservation for the target subscriber to participate in said group-based activity in response to the target subscriber opting to participate; locating a destination using an entertainment directory service for the group-based activity using a navigation application; and transmitting, to the target subscriber, navigation information provided by the navigation application for said destination, wherein at least one of the subscriber location network application, the persona network application, the opt-in network application, the network reservation application, the entertainment directory service and the navigation application is selected by the composite application according to a profile of the target subscriber provided to the composite application by a profile base application.