Selectively providing mobile experiences at multiple locations

• US 10,136,260 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2016
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tourblend Innovations, LLC
• Original Assignee: Tourblend Innovations, LLC
• Inventors: Parulski, Kenneth A, O'Keefe, Brian J, Moore, Leslie G
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mastrodonato, Margaret G
• Application Number:
  US15/151,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20160255477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: 4554563, 4554561, 455457
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

Disclosed herein are, among other things, systems and methods for providing location-based digital stories to a user of processing a device system, such as a mobile device. In some embodiments, a user profile associated with the user and data indicating a plurality of location-specific digital stories related to a common theme at a plurality of locations may be stored. A processing device system may be configured to determine a current location of the mobile device and to provide a first or second digital story to the mobile device based on an analysis of the stored user profile and the current location.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a) a memory device system storing story content data;

b) an output device system;

c) a location determination unit configured to determine a geographic location of the mobile device; and

d) a data processing device system communicatively connected to the output device system, the memory device system, and the location determination unit, wherein the memory device system stores program instructions configured to cause the data processing system at least to;

store, in the memory device system, data for a first plurality of digital stories associated with a second plurality of different locations, including data for a first digital story associated with a third plurality of different locations, the data for the first digital story including audio story data and text-based story data;

determine when a current location of a mobile device first corresponds to one of the third plurality of different locations;

determine whether the average speed of the mobile device is above a threshold speed; and

when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device first corresponds to one of the third plurality of different locations and it is determined that the average speed of the mobile device is above the threshold speed, acquire, from the memory device system, the audio story data for the first digital story and provide the audio story data for the first digital story to the output device system; and

when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device first corresponds to one of the third plurality of different locations and it is determined that the average speed of the mobile device is below the threshold speed, acquire, from the memory device system, the text-based story data for the first digital story and provide the text-based story data for the first digital story to the output device system.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the output device system includes a wireless modem which transmits a digital audio signal over an RF channel.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the memory device system stores a user profile for the user of the mobile device, and wherein the data processing system is further configured at least to:

update the user profile when it is first determined that the current location of the mobile device associated with the user corresponds to one of the third plurality of different locations; and

use the user profile to determine whether to provide the first digital story to the mobile device when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device corresponds to one of the third plurality of different locations.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the threshold speed is approximately 10 miles per hour.

5. A system comprising:

a storage device system storing data for a digital story associated with a particular location, the data for the digital story including audio story data and text-based story data;

a location determination unit configured to determine a geographic location of a mobile device; and

a data processing device system configured at least to;

determine when a current location of the mobile device corresponds to the particular location;

determine whether the average speed of the mobile device is above a threshold speed; and

when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device corresponds to the particular location and it is determined that the average speed of the mobile device is above the threshold speed, provide the audio story data; and

when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device corresponds to the particular location and it is determined that the average speed of the mobile device is below the threshold speed, provide the text-based story data.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the particular location is defined using a geofence.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the storage device system stores data which identifies the geographic location of the geofence.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the storage device system stores data for a first plurality of digital stories associated with a second plurality of different locations.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the storage device system, the location determination unit, and the data processing device system are included in the mobile device.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the storage device system is a network-accessible storage device system.

11. The system of claim 5, wherein the audio story data is provided to a speaker in the mobile device and the text story data is provided to an image display in the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein the audio story data is provided to a wireless modem which transmits a digital audio signal over an RF channel.

13. The system of claim 5, wherein the data for the digital story data includes image data.

14. A method executed by a data processing device system, the method comprising the steps of:

storing, in a storage device system, data for a digital story associated with a particular geographic location, the data for the digital story including audio story data and text-based story data;

determining when a current location of a mobile device corresponds to the particular geographic location;

determining whether the average speed of the mobile device is above a threshold speed; and

when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device corresponds to the particular geographic location and it is determined that the average speed of the mobile device is above the threshold speed, providing the audio story data; and

when it is determined that the current location of the mobile device corresponds to the particular geographic location and it is determined that the average speed of the mobile device is below the threshold speed, providing the text-based story data.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the digital story relates to the history of the particular geographic location.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the digital story is presented using a particular character selected by a user of the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 16, further including the step of storing, in a storage device system, a user profile which identifies the particular character selected by a user of the mobile device.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the storage device system is a network-accessible storage device system.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the storage device system stores data for a first plurality of digital stories associated with a second plurality of different geographic locations.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the audio story data is provided to a speaker in the mobile device and the text story data is provided to an image display in the mobile device.