Patent Document ID: 9430498
Application ID: 14960370
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for generating a tour on a digital celebrity map, and for verifying a celebrity sighting event, comprising: a server connected to a network, the server having access to at least one processor and a data repository, the server including a non-transitory physical medium; and a plurality of program codes stored on the non-transitory physical medium, the program code, when executed, causing the processor to: establish a client server connection between the server and a computing appliance operated by at least one user; receive at least one celebrity sighting event by: receive a celebrity image from an image source, wherein the image source is selected from a first group consisting of a digital image source and a reporting user upload; associate the celebrity image with a first named celebrity; determine a sighting location and a sighting time associated with the celebrity image, wherein the first named celebrity, the sighting location, and the sighting time constitute a celebrity sighting event, and wherein the celebrity image is associated with the celebrity sighting event; receive a credibility rating for the celebrity image; and update a credibility score of the image source according to the received credibility rating; wherein an initial credibility rating score is set to an initial rating; generate a celebrity tour by: receive, from the computing appliance, a user geolocation; determine a map area around the user geolocation; retrieve, from the data repository, celebrity geolocations within the map area, wherein each celebrity geolocation is associated with at least one named celebrity, and wherein the celebrity geolocations comprise at least celebrity real estate properties, celebrity sighting locations, and celebrity hotspots; transmit the celebrity geolocations to the computing appliance, for display on the digital celebrity map; receive a request to generate a tour to the celebrity geolocations, wherein the tour starts from the user geolocation, and wherein the request is associated with a request time; and in response to the request, generate for display on the digital celebrity map, the tour to the celebrity geolocations; and verify the celebrity sighting event by: determine whether the sighting location of the celebrity sighting event is within the map area, and whether the sighting time is within a given time window around the request time; and in response to determining that the sighting location is within the map area, and the sighting time is within the given time window around the request time, generate a notification of the sighting event to the at least one user; receive a verification response from the at least one user, wherein the verification response is associated with a verification time; and update the credibility score of the image source according to the verification response and a duration of time elapsed from the sighting time to the verification time.