Messaging systems for sharing location specific information

• US 10,555,122 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2018
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TipTags, Inc.
• Original Assignee: TipTags, Inc.
• Inventors: Roberts, Timothy G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nealon, William
• Application Number:
  US16/199,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20190166462A1
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 4554566
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented messaging system for sharing location specific information. Users of the messaging system may provide a message about a specific location. The message can be displayed as a tag. The messaging system can comprise a map-based interface, and a plurality of tags on the map-based interface. The tags may be (i) positioned adjacent to a specific location and (ii) oriented to point towards the specific location. The tags may be configured to display at least a portion of a message about the specific location.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented messaging system for sharing location specific information comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

a memory, communicatively coupled to said one or more computer processors and said display, including instructions executable by said one or more processors to present on a display;

a map-based interface; and

a plurality of tags on said map-based interface, wherein each tag of said plurality of tags (i) displays at least a portion of a message about a specific location, (ii) is positioned adjacent to said specific location in accordance with a position instruction provided by a user providing said message, and (iii) is oriented to point towards said specific location in accordance with an orientation instruction provided by said user providing said message, which orientation instruction permits placement of said each tag along an orientation selected, from a plurality of available orientations, by said user providing said message.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said message comprises at least a title of said message and a category and/or a description of said specific location.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said each tag displays at least one of (i) said title of said message and (ii) said category of said specific location.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said each tag is displayed with a color, wherein said color is determined based at least in part on said category of said specific location.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said memory includes instructions executable by said one or more computer processors to determine an aggregate rating for each message, wherein said aggregate rating is a compilation of all individual ratings received for each message from users of said messaging system.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said each tag displays said aggregate rating.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein said aggregate rating is a numerical score.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said memory includes instructions executable by said one or more computer processors to present on said display, to a first user of said messaging system, a current location of said first user on said map-based interface.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said memory includes instructions executable by said one or more computer processors to provide, upon request by said first user, direction instructions between said current location of said first user and a first specific location of a first tag of said plurality of tags on said map-based interface.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said memory includes instructions executable by said one or more computer processors to provide, upon request by a first user, direction instructions between a first specific location of a first tag of said plurality of tags and a second specific location of a second tag of said plurality of tags on said map-based interface.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein a given tag of said plurality of tags displays all of said message about said specific location upon request by a first user.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said one or more computer processors are programmed to receive a first rating of said message from a second user.