Personalized itinerary generation and mapping system

• US 10,433,106 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2018
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blazer And Flip Flops, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Blazer And Flip Flops, Inc.
• Inventors: Sahadi, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Khoi H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hannan, B M M
• Application Number:
  US15/980,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20180352373A1
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-457
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A platform generates a personalized itinerary and corresponding map for a user within a venue. The personalized itinerary includes at least one recommended point of interest, the recommendation generated based on a location of the recommended point of interest relative to a location of the user, and based on a comparison between user profile information concerning the user and point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest.

Claims

1. A method for generating a personalized itinerary for a venue attendee in a predetermined venue area, the method comprising:

receiving, from a mobile device associated with the venue attendee, a location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee;

identifying that the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee falls within the predetermined venue area;

retrieving profile information concerning the venue attendee, the profile information including information concerning previous selections by the venue attendee relating to the plurality of points of interest within the predetermined venue area;

retrieving locations of a plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area;

retrieving point of interest information concerning each of the plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area;

identifying that the venue attendee has previously selected a point of interest from the plurality of points of interest based on the profile information, wherein the previously selected point of interest is of a defined type;

automatically identifying a recommended point of interest of the plurality of points of interest by identifying that a location of the recommended point of interest is within a predetermined range of the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee and based on a result of a comparison between the profile information and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest that indicates that the previously selected point of interest and recommended point of interest are both of the defined type, wherein the recommended point of interest is a different one of the plurality of points of interest than the previously selected point of interest;

generating a personalized itinerary for the venue attendee, the personalized itinerary identifying at least the recommended point of interest and a second the previously selected point of interest of the plurality of points of interest; and

sending the personalized itinerary to the mobile device associated with the venue attendee.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information concerning the venue attendee includes a location history of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee, wherein the location history identifies one or more of the plurality of points of interest within the predetermined venue area that the venue attendee has visited.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the result of the comparison between the profile information concerning the venue attendee and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest indicates that the recommended point of interest does not appear in the location history of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the result of the comparison between the profile information concerning the venue attendee and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest indicates that the recommended point of interest appears in the location history of the mobile device at least a predetermined number of times.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information indicates that the venue attendee likes a defined type of point of interest, and wherein the result of the comparison between the profile information concerning the venue attendee and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest indicates that the recommended point of interest is characterized as at least the defined type of point of interest.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information indicates that the venue attendee dislikes a second type of point of interest, and wherein the result of the comparison between the profile information concerning the venue attendee and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest indicates that the recommended point of interest is not characterized as at least the second type of point of interest.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying, based on at least the profile information, that a period of time since the venue attendee was at any point of interest of the defined type exceeds a predetermined time limit, and wherein the recommended point of interest is selected to be of the defined type in response to identifying that the period of time exceeds the predetermined time limit.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the defined type of point of interest is related to food, and wherein the period of time exceeding the predetermined time limit suggests that the venue attendee is hungry.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the defined type of point of interest is related to drinks, and wherein the period of time exceeding the predetermined time limit suggests that the venue attendee is thirsty.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving inventory information concerning at least the recommended point of interest, the inventory information indicating that inventory at the recommended point of interest is nearing an end of a shelf life, wherein identifying the recommended point of interest is further based on the inventory information.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving secondary profile information concerning a second venue attendee, wherein identifying the recommended point of interest of the plurality of points of interest is further based on a second result of a second comparison between the secondary profile information concerning the second venue attendee and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the result of the comparison indicates that the selected point of interest and the recommended point of interest are both of the defined type to the second point of interest, wherein the recommended point of interest is selected because it is of the defined type.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the result of the comparison also indicates that the defined type is different than a second type characterizing an additional point of interest that is included in the personalized itinerary.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized itinerary is a map of the predetermined venue area that depicts a route connecting the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee to at least one of the recommended point of interest or the selected point of interest.

15. A system that generates a personalized itinerary for a venue attendee in a predetermined venue area, the system comprising:

a communication transceiver that receives a location of a mobile device associated with the venue attendee;

a memory storing instructions; and

a processor, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the processor to;

identify that the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee falls within the predetermined venue area,

identify that the venue attendee has previously selected a point of interest from the plurality of points of interest based on profile information, wherein the previously selected point of interest is of a defined type and the profile information includes information concerning previous selections by the venue attendee relating to the plurality of points of interest within the predetermined venue area,

automatically identify a recommended point of interest of a plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area by identifying that a location of the recommended point of interest is within a predetermined range of the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee and based on a result of a comparison between the profile information concerning the venue attendee and point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest that indicates that the previously selected point of interest and recommended point of interest are both of the defined type, wherein the recommended point of interest is a different one of the plurality of points of interest than the previously selected point of interest, and

generate a personalized itinerary for the venue attendee, the personalized itinerary identifying at least the recommended point of interest and the selected point of interest of the plurality of points of interest.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the communication transceiver receives the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee from the mobile device associated with the venue attendee.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the communication transceiver receives the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee from a point of sale (POS) terminal within the predetermined venue area.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising a database identifying locations of the plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area and point of interest information concerning each of the plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the communication transceiver sends the personalized itinerary to the mobile device associated with the venue attendee.

20. A method for generating a personalized itinerary for a venue attendee in a predetermined venue area, the method comprising:

receiving a location of a mobile device associated with the venue attendee;

retrieving profile information concerning the venue attendee, the profile information including information concerning previous selections by the venue attendee relating to the plurality of points of interest within the predetermined venue area;

retrieving locations of a plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area;

retrieving point of interest information concerning each of the plurality of points of interest located within the predetermined venue area;

identifying that the venue attendee has previously selected a point of interest from the plurality of points of interest based on the profile information, wherein the previously selected point of interest is of a defined type;

automatically identifying a recommended point of interest of the plurality of points of interest by identifying that a location of the recommended point of interest is within a predetermined range of the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee and based on a result of a comparison between the profile information and the point of interest information concerning the recommended point of interest that indicates that the previously selected point of interest and recommended point of interest are both of the defined type, wherein the recommended point of interest is a different one of the plurality of points of interest than the previously selected point of interest;

generating a map of the predetermined venue area that depicts at least the location of the mobile device associated with the venue attendee, the previously selected point of interest, and the recommended point of interest.