Patent ID: 8275397

Claim:
A system for identifying a friendly participant in real time in a personal networking situation comprising: said friendly participant having a GPS receiver for determining said friendly participant's position and a participant radio for transmitting said friendly participant position in real time; a server for receiving said friendly participant position from said participant radio and for storing participant information including position information and social information; a radio coupled to said server for transmitting said friendly participant position; and a portable device accompanying a respective user, the portable device including a GPS for determining the user's position and a radio for receiving a friendly participant position from the radio coupled to said server, the receipt of said friendly participant position being based at least in part on (i) a user choice of information and (ii) said participant information, a graphics display selectable by the user to display multiple views of the personal networking situation, wherein at least one of the user views selectable on the display is the perspective view from the user's position to said friendly participant position, and wherein augmented reality identifies the position of said friendly participant.