Location specific content delivery

• US 10,157,354 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Durg, Kishore Prabhakar, Gupta, Niraj, Kothandaraman, Ramkumar, Bahree, Amit
• Primary Examiner(s): Barot, Bharat
• Application Number:
  US14/471,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,573 Days
• Field of Search: 709202-203, 709250
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

An intelligent information delivery system facilitates dynamic interaction with the user'"'"'s environment, and in certain environments may provide or support digital governance. The intelligent delivery system may make use of a distributed beacon network to accurately determine the user'"'"'s location within an environment, which may then be leveraged to deliver relevant content to the user. The intelligent delivery system may also facilitate complex interactions between a user of the system and the user'"'"'s environment.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a beacon network of personal area network (PAN) beacons distributed over a mapped region, the PAN beacons comprising PAN transmitters configured to locally transmit beacon identifiers assigned to the PAN beacons; and

a content server comprising;

a memory comprising;

a map representation for the mapped region, the map representation defining mapped sub-regions within the mapped region;

a mapping table establishing a correspondence between the beacon identifiers and the mapped sub-regions;

a content mapping that links location specific content with the mapped sub-regions, wherein the location specific content comprises a list of media content available for playback for the particular sub-region, wherein the media content comprises at least one of audio content or video content;

a communication interface configured to communicate with the mapped sub-regions and with a separate map display device; and

location processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the location processing circuitry configured to;

receive a location message from the map display device;

process the location message to determine a location of the map display device within the mapped region;

match the location to a particular sub-region among the mapped sub-regions;

retrieve selected location specific content mapped to the particular sub-region; and

communicate the selected location specific content to the map display device.

2. The system of claim 1, where the location processing circuitry is further configured to:

receive a media content selection from the map display device; and

communicate media content corresponding to the media content selection to the particular sub-region.

3. The system of claim 2, where the beacon identifiers comprise:

a sub-identifier unique to sub-space within the particular sub-region.

4. The system of claim 3, where the beacon identifiers comprise:

a primary identifier shared among multiple of the PAN beacons that are located in the particular sub-region.

5. The system of claim 1, where:

the location processing circuitry is further configured to respond to a content list request for media content associated with the particular sub-region.

6. The system of claim 1, where the location processing circuitry is further configured to:

receive a media content selection from the map display device; and

communicate media content corresponding to the media content selection to the map display device.

7. The system of claim 6, where the beacon identifiers comprise:

a sub-identifier unique to sub-space within the particular sub-region.

8. The system of claim 7, where the beacon identifiers comprise:

a primary identifier shared among multiple of the PAN beacons that are located in the particular sub-region.

9. A method comprising:

storing a map representation of a mapped region, the map representation defining mapped sub-regions within the mapped region;

defining a mapping table that establishes a correspondence between beacon identifiers and the mapped sub-regions;

creating a content mapping that links location specific content with the mapped sub-regions;

receiving a location message from a separate map display device;

processing the location message to determine a location of the map display device within the mapped region;

determining a particular sub-region among the mapped sub-regions at which the map display device is located;

retrieving selected location specific content mapped to the particular sub-region, wherein the location specific content comprises a list of media content available for playback for the particular sub-region, wherein the media content comprises at least one of audio content or video content; and

communicating the selected location specific content to the map display device.

10. The method of claim 9, where the beacon identifiers comprise:

a sub-identifier unique to sub-space within the particular sub-region.

11. The method of claim 10, where the beacon identifiers comprise:

a primary identifier shared among multiple of the PAN beacons that are located in the particular sub-region.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a media content selection from the map display device; and

communicating media content corresponding to the media content selection for the particular sub-space.

13. A product comprising:

a memory other than a transitory signal; and

instructions stored on the memory for execution by an instruction processor, the instructions configured to cause the instruction processor to;

display a map representation of a mapped region, the map representation defining mapped sub-regions within the mapped region and mapped sub-spaces within the sub-regions;

store a mapping table comprising;

a link between personal area network (PAN) beacon primary identifiers and the mapped sub-regions; and

a link between PAN beacon secondary identifiers and the mapped sub-spaces;

receive beacon identifiers;

determine a current location within the mapped region responsive to receiving the beacon identifiers and based on the mapping table;

communicate the current location to a content server in a location message;

receive from the content server a media content list applicable to the current location, wherein the media content comprises at least one of audio content or video content;

accept a media selection from the media content list; and

communicate the media selection to the content server.

14. The product of claim 13, where the instructions are further configured to cause the instruction processor to:

determine a particular sub-space of a particular sub-region as the current location; and

receive, as the media content list, a media content list applicable to the particular sub-space.