Providing information regarding books having scenes in locations within proximity to a mobile device

• US 10,140,632 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Squirl, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Squirl, Inc.
• Inventors: Wolfe, Serie L., Van der Avoort, Jef
• Primary Examiner(s): Paula, Cesar B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huang, Jian
• Application Number:
  US14/228,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20150278871A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,706 Days
• Field of Search: 715234, 715251, 715273, 705 261
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing location-based book identification. For example, book(s) may be identified that discuss a location that is within a designated proximity to a mobile device. In accordance with this example, information regarding the book(s) may be provided for consumption by a user at the mobile device. For instance, the information may be displayed on the mobile device in response to the mobile device coming within the designated proximity to the location. The information may include an excerpt of at least one of the book(s), an indication of other location(s) that are discussed by at least one of the book(s), an offer to purchase at least one of the book(s), etc. The user may share the information through social media, interact with other readers and/or the author via a social network, etc.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to;

detect whether a mobile device is within a designated proximity to a location;

identify one or more books in which a setting of at least one scene is in the location;

provide information regarding at least one book that is included in the one or more books via a user interface that is associated with the mobile device based at least in part on a determination that the mobile device is within the designated proximity to the location and further based at least in part on a setting of at least one scene in the at least one book being in the location;

determine whether a selectable virtual element that is displayed on the user interface is selected by a user of the mobile device;

provide a second interface element that enables the user to select one or more other locations that are discussed in the at least one book or in at least one other book based at least in part on a determination that the selectable virtual element is selected by the user;

determine whether a second location that is included in the one or more other locations is selected by the user via the second interface element; and

provide at least one of a message, which includes a reference to a website that enables the user to provide information regarding the second location, or a third interface element, which enables the user to provide specified information regarding a designated book in which the second location is discussed, to the user based at least in part on a determination that the second location is selected by the user via the second interface element,

the specified information including at least one of an excerpt from the designated book, an identification of an author of the designated book, or a title of the designated book.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to identify the one or more books based at least in part on crowd sourced data specifying that a setting of at least one scene in the one or more books is in the location.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to, for at least one of the at least one book, provide an indication of one or more additional locations that are discussed by the respective book.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the information regarding the at least one book includes crowd sourced information regarding the at least one book.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the information regarding the at least one book includes an excerpt from each of the at least one book, each excerpt corresponding to a setting of at least one scene in the location.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to provide the message, which includes the reference to the website that enables the user to provide the information regarding the second location, to the user based at least in part on the determination that the second location is selected by the user via the second interface element.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to provide the third interface element, which enables the user to provide the information regarding the second location, to the user based at least in part on the determination that the second location is selected by the user via the second interface element.

25. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to provide analytics to an author of a designated book that has a setting of at least one scene in the location, the analytics specifying at least one of (a) a plurality of locations that are associated with the designated book or (b) demographic information regarding persons who have provided at least one comment regarding at least one of the plurality of locations.

8. A method comprising:

detecting that a mobile device is within a designated proximity to a location;

identifying one or more books in which a setting of at least one scene is in the location;

providing information regarding at least one book that is included in the one or more books via a user interface that is associated with the mobile device based at least in part on a setting of at least one scene in the at least one book being in the location;

identifying a plurality of persons who have provided at least one comment regarding at least one of the plurality of locations that is associated with a designated book that is included in the one or more books; and

providing analytics to an author of the designated book, the analytics specifying demographic information regarding the plurality of persons based at least in part on the plurality of persons providing at least one comment regarding at least one of the plurality of locations that is associated with the designated book.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

causing a virtual element to be displayed via the user interface in response to providing the information, the virtual element enabling a user of the mobile device to buy the at least one book.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

causing a virtual element to be displayed via the user interface in response to providing the information, the virtual element enabling a user of the mobile device to share the information with at least one other person.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

causing a virtual element to be displayed via the user interface in response to providing the information, the virtual element enabling a user of the mobile device to add an indicator that is associated with the information to a list of favorite content of the user.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

causing a virtual element to be displayed via the user interface in response to providing the information, the virtual element enabling a user of the mobile device to indicate that the information violates a rule associated with a mobile application that is executing on at least one processor of the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

causing a virtual element to be displayed via the user interface in response to providing the information, the virtual element enabling a user of the mobile device to follow an author of the at least one book in a social network.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing audiovisual content regarding the location via the user interface in response to detecting that the mobile device is within the designated proximity to the location.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

filtering the one or more books based at least in part on a designated theme to determine that the at least one book corresponds to the designated theme and that others of the one or more books do not correspond to the designated theme;

wherein providing the information comprises;

providing the information in response to filtering the one or more books.

24. The method of claim 8, wherein identifying the one or more books comprises:

identifying a plurality of books in which a setting of at least one scene is in the location; and

wherein the method further comprises;

displaying a map of the location, the map including a plurality of representations of the location that correspond to the plurality of respective books based at least in part on a setting of at least one scene in each of the plurality of books being in the location.

26. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

causing the user to become a follower of the author of the at least one book in the social network in response to selection of the virtual element by the user, said becoming a follower enabling the user to receive at least one of the following in the social network;

(A) notifications of new books by the author of the at least one book,

(B) new locations that are discussed in books by the author of the at least one book.

16. A system comprising:

memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to;

detect whether a plurality of mobile devices are within a designated proximity to a location;

identify a plurality of books, each of the plurality of books having a setting of at least one scene in the location;

provide first information regarding a first subset of the plurality of books via a first user interface that is associated with a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, in response to detection that the plurality of mobile devices are within the designated proximity to the location, based at least in part on each book in the first subset having a setting of at least one scene in the location and further based at least in part on each book in the first subset corresponding to a first attribute that is included in a first user profile of a first user of the first mobile device;

provide second information regarding a second subset of the plurality of books via a second user interface that is associated with a second mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, in response to detection that the plurality of mobile devices are within the designated proximity to the location, based at least in part on each book in the second subset having a setting of at least one scene in the location and further based at least in part on each book in the second subset corresponding to a second attribute that is included in a second user profile of a second user of the second mobile device;

identify a plurality of persons who have provided at least one comment regarding at least one of a plurality of locations that is associated with a designated book that has a setting of at least one scene in the location; and

provide analytics to an author of the designated book, the analytics specifying demographic information regarding the plurality of persons based at least in part on the plurality of persons providing at least one comment regarding at least one of the plurality of locations that is associated with the designated book.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

determine whether one or more mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices are within a second proximity to the location; and

present an offer to tour a geographical area that includes the location via one or more user interfaces associated with the one or more respective mobile devices based at least in part on a determination that the one or more mobile devices are within the second proximity to the location.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

provide the tour to a subset of users corresponding to a subset of the one or more mobile devices based at least in part on receipt of an acceptance of the offer from the subset of the one or more mobile devices; and

provide directions for navigating through the geographical area in real-time to each user in the subset of users via a respective user interface of the one or more user interfaces.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

determine that each user in a subset of users corresponding to the one or more mobile devices has a profile that includes an attribute corresponding to an attribute of the tour; and

present the offer to tour the geographical area via the one or more user interfaces further based at least in part on a determination that each user in the subset of users has a profile that includes an attribute corresponding to an attribute of the tour.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause a virtual element to be displayed on each of a plurality of user interfaces that are associated with the plurality of mobile devices, each virtual element enabling a user of the respective mobile device to schedule an event at the location.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause a virtual element to be displayed on each of a plurality of user interfaces that are associated with the plurality of mobile devices, each virtual element enabling a user of the respective mobile device to review a list of events that are scheduled to occur at the location.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors receive payment from at least one of an author or a publisher to include specified information regarding a specified book that is written by the author in information that is to be provided to mobile devices when the mobile devices come within the designated proximity to the location;

and

wherein the first information and the second information include the specified information based at least in part on receipt of the payment from at least one of the author or the publisher.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors receive payment from an author to promote a specified book that is written by the author, the specified book not having a setting of at least one scene in the location but having a setting of at least one scene in a second location;

wherein the one or more processors receive an indication that specifies an outer boundary of a geographical region corresponding to the location from a third user of a third mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices; and

wherein the one or more processors are configured to provide information regarding the specified book via a third user interface that is associated with the third mobile device based at least in part on receipt of the payment from the author and further based at least in part on the second location being within the outer boundary.