Patent ID: 7751971

Claim:
A system for providing one or more mobile user devices with locally relevant information, comprising: automatically determining an approximate position of at least one user device; reporting the approximate position to a remote server; querying a database of geographic points of interest to identify a set of one or more geographic points of interest within a predetermined distance from the approximate position of the at least one user device; wherein each geographic point of interest has been assigned to a predetermined grid section approximately corresponding to a known physical location of that geographic point of interest; returning the set of one or more geographic points of interest to one or more of the user devices; rendering a grid-based display of the grid sections which illustrates graphical representations of each of the returned geographic points of interest on a display device of one or more of the user devices, wherein a representation of each geographic point of interest is rendered in a corresponding one of the rendered grid sections; and wherein a representation of the approximate position is rendered in one of the grid sections corresponding to the approximate position of the at least one user device.