Social network for travelers with layovers

A method of notifying members of a social network of upcoming overlapping layovers comprising:

• (a) maintaining a list of members and, for each member, maintaining a list of buddies of the each member, each member having at least one association to at least one unique identifier;
• (b) downloading at least one schedule from at least one pre-determined schedule system, each of the at least one schedule created at a corresponding one of the at least one schedule systems without direct input from any member of the list of members, each record of the at least one schedule comprising a person identifier, a date, and a location, wherein the person identifiers uniquely identify one person;
• (c) for each record, if the person identifier matches the unique identifier of a member, saving a layover data record including the member, the date, and the location;
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• (d) for each of the layover data records, searching the layover data records for a buddy having an overlapping layover data record, and if the searching finds an overlapping layover data record, automatically notifying the member of the overlapping layover.

Program instructions tangibly embodied in a non-transitory storage medium for notifying of upcoming overlapping layovers, wherein the at least one instruction comprises:

• (a) computer readable instructions maintain a list of members and, for each member, maintain a list of buddies of the each member, each member having at least one association to at least one unique identifier;
• (b) computer readable instructions download at least one schedule, each of the at least one schedule created on a pre-determined schedule system without direct input from any member in the list of members, each of the at least one schedules comprising a plurality of records, each of the records comprising a person identifier, at least one date, and at least one location;
• (c) computer readable instructions extract layover data from the records in which the person identifier in the record corresponds with the unique identifier of any member of the list of members, the layover data comprises the any member, a layover location, and a layover time period, wherein the person identifier assists in uniquely identifying a correspondence between the records in the schedules and the any member of the list of members;
• (d) computer readable instructions search the layover data for a set of overlapping layovers in which a layover of the member and a layover of a buddy of the member have the same location;
• (e) for each overlapping layover in the set of overlapping layovers, computer readable instructions notify the member and/or the buddy of the overlapping layover;
• (f) periodically repeating steps (b) and (e).