Patent ID: 8341162

Claim:
A computer system providing a social network for traveling people, the social network comprising: a server computer; social network software executing on the server computer for providing social network functions, the social network software maintaining a list of members and, for each member, the social network software maintaining a list of buddies of the each member, the buddies also being in the list of members; at least one schedule, each of the at least one schedules downloaded from one or more pre-determined schedule systems, each of the at least one schedule created by the one or more schedule systems without direct input from the each member, the schedule systems being external to the server computer, each schedule comprising a plurality of records, each of the records comprising a person identifier, at least one date/time, a source location, and a destination location; extraction software, for each of the records in the schedules in which the person identifier corresponds with any member of the list of members, the extraction software creates layover entries that comprise the any member, a layover location and a layover time period; wherein the person identifier assists in uniquely identifying the records in the schedules with the any member of the list of members; analysis software, the analysis software finding an overlapping layover, the overlapping layover determined by a first member of the list of members having a layover that overlaps with a layover of a buddy member, the buddy member in the list of buddies of the member; and notification software, the notification software automatically notifying one or both persons selected from the group consisting of the first member and the buddy member who has the overlapping layover when the overlap is new or has changed.