Patent ID: 8099466

Claim:
A system for vote-based, interest-specific collaboration to generate information of a target object of interest, the system comprising: a server in communication with one or more members of a predetermined interest group from among a plurality of predetermined interest groups, the one or more members of the predetermined interest group being associated by at least one object of interest, the server storing the target object information in a database; and a collaboration device coupled to a mobile vehicle of each of the one or more members of the predetermined interest group, the collaboration device comprising: a GPS receiver; a target input mechanism in communication with the GPS receiver receiving a user indication of the presence of an object of interest to generate location data from the GPS receiver for the object of interest; and a radio transmitter and receiver sending and receiving target object information to and from the server, the target object information comprising the user indication of the presence of the object of interest and the location data of the member when sending the user indication of the presence of the object of interest; wherein a confidence level of the target object information for the presence of the object of interest is adjusted upon receipt of the user indication of the presence of the object of interest wherein the confidence level is increased as the location data from the GPS receiver indicates that the user indication was sent from a location that was within a fixed diameter of a previously received location for the object of interest, wherein the confidence level is adjusted upon receipt of the user indication of an absence of the object of interest such that the confidence level is decreased.