CLUSTERING GEOFENCE-BASED ALERTS FOR MOBILE DEVICES

A computer-implemented method for alert notifications, comprising: determining, by one or more computing devices, a relationship among two or more points of interest based on information available about the points of interest; associating, by the one or more computing devices, the two or more points of interest in response to determining the relationship among the two or more of the points of interest; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a single geofence boundary around the two or more associated points of interest to form a clustered geofence boundary encompassing the two or more associated points of interest; communicating, by a location application on a user computing device, location data for the user computing device to the one or more computing devices, wherein the user computing device is separate and distinct from the one or more computing devices; determining, by the one or more computing devices, that the user computing device has entered the clustered geofence boundary; and instructing, by the one or more computing devices, the user computing device to provide, in response to determining that the user computing device enters the clustered geofence boundary, an alert on the user computing device regarding the associated points of interest when the user device is determined to be in the clustered geofence boundary.