Patent ID: 7231441

Claim:
A method of providing data to users about physical entities of interest, comprising: (a) obtaining characteristic accessibility data for a plurality of candidate physical entities, said characteristic accessibility data including at least a uniform resource locator of one of said candidate physical entities; (i) at least one of said candidate physical entities being mobile; (ii) said characteristic accessibility data being used to generate an electronic file for each candidate physical entity; and (iii) said electronic file linking said physical entity to its corresponding web pages accessible via the Internet; (b) obtaining a contemporaneous search request initiated by a user for information about one or more physical entities proximate to said user's current location and of interest to said user; (i) said request including a search domain relative to said user's location; (ii) said search domain being in a form that obviates the need for said user to (A) provide a network address of, or (B) perform a keyword search for the networked data pages of, said physical entities of interest; (c) determining a subset of said candidate physical entities in (a) by determining which of said candidate physical entities satisfy requirements of (b); and (d) transmitting, to said user over an electronic network, information relating to said subset of physical entities.