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1. A system for interconnecting a plurality of image providers with an image requester, the system comprising:
a plurality of mobile computing devices associated with a plurality of image providers, each mobile computing device including a GPS receiver and a mobile application; a first computer system associated with an image requester; and a second computer system for communicating with the mobile computing devices and the first computer system; wherein the mobile application, upon execution by its mobile computing device, is configured to, on a repeating basis, (1) interact with its mobile computing device's GPS receiver to determine its current location, and (2) wirelessly report its determined current location to the second computer system; wherein the second computer system is configured to (1) receive the current locations from the mobile computing devices, and (2) maintain a database that tracks a current location for each of the mobile computing devices; wherein the first computer system is configured to communicate an image request to the second computer system, the image request including a location and a description of sought image data; wherein the second computer system is further configured to automatically (1) identify a subset of the mobile computing devices based on a geographic relationship between the request location for the image request and the current locations for the mobile computing devices as reflected in the database, and (2) communicate the image request to the identified subset of mobile computing devices; and wherein each mobile computing device within the identified subset which received the communicated image request is configured to notify its associated image provider about the received image request. |
