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Event notification systems and methods

  • US 10,375,513 B2
  • Filed: 05/01/2014
  • Issued: 08/06/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An event notification system comprising:

  • a receiver arranged to receive a plurality of items of commercial event information uploaded by a plurality of vendors, each of the plurality of commercial events being for attendance by a plurality of shoppers with identities previously unknown to the plurality of vendors, each of the plurality of items of commercial event information being indicative of a respective one of a plurality of commercial events, each item of commercial event information comprising geographical region information indicative of a geographical region for the respective commercial event and time interval information indicative of a time interval for the respective commercial event, the receiver also being arranged to receive location information indicative of a location of each of a plurality of wireless communication devices of the plurality of previously unknown passing shoppers at a time;

    a boundary generator arranged to generate boundary information indicative of a boundary enclosing the geographical region of each of the plurality of commercial events for which the time interval thereof encompasses the time;

    a notifier arranged to use the boundary information and the location information when so received to determine whether the boundary encompasses the location of each of the plurality of mobile wireless communication devices of the plurality of previously unknown passing shoppers, and arranged to multicast event notification information indicative of the plurality of commercial events by sending to each of the plurality of mobile communications devices of the plurality of previously unknown passing shoppers event notification information indicative of each of the plurality of commercial events for the plurality of mobile communications devices to notify a plurality of users of the at least one event in the set.

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