Patent ID: 8913999

Claim:
A computing system implemented method for identifying geolocationally relevant contacts and acquiring their contact data comprising the following, which when executed individually or collectively by any set of one or more processors perform a process including: obtaining first party geolocation data indicating a geolocation of a first party from a first party computing system associated with the first party, wherein the first party geolocation data is obtained from a communication signal used and/or emitted by the first party computing system; obtaining data indicating one or more contact parties associated with the first party; defining a relevant contact party radius representing a distance from the geolocation of the first party such that contact parties associated with the first party within the relevant contact party radius are considered relevant contact parties with respect to the first party; obtaining contact party geolocation data indicating the geolocation of at least one of the contact parties associated with the first party; analyzing the first party geolocation data and the contact party geolocation data and identifying a relevant contact party within the relevant contact party radius; obtaining contact data for the identified relevant contact party; and providing the contact data for the identified relevant contact party to one or more applications associated with the first party computing system.