Method and system governing interaction between URL-possessing element of a physical web that includes a mobile web

• US 10,572,554 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2017
• Issued: 02/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shmuel Nemanov
• Original Assignee: Sholem Weisner
• Inventors: Weisner, Sholem, Nemanov, Shmuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Recek, Jason D
• Application Number:
  US15/810,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20180075144A1
• Time in Patent Office: 835 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A personalized way to digitally record a person'"'"'s physical activities over time serves web searching, business advertising, nostalgia, security and object tracing purposes. The chronological digital history of the person'"'"'s physical presence over a time includes (i) digital network entries from other members who hold their portable wireless short range device near the person'"'"'s device and transmit a URL or other key data and (ii) digital member entries such a digital photograph of a store sign. The digital network entries and digital member entries are automatically transmitted to a database located on a telecommunications network at a time of entry. Advertisers can transmit to members when members enter premises of advertiser'"'"'s store. Upon sign-up online, the authentication data uniquely associated with an account is provided and key data they want to transmit is associated with the account. Digital histories can be used to improve web searching and networking opportunities.

Claims

1. A system governing interaction between URL-possessing elements of a physical web that includes a mobile web, the system, comprising:

a processing system that is connected to a telecommunications network and is configured to provide an account to an individual member of a member network;

an application configuring handheld mobile communication devices of each individual member of the member network, upon instances of a physical encounter between the individual member and a stationary vendor member of the member network at a physical premises of the stationary vendor member, the physical premises including a pre-positioned short range communication device, to transmit a URL of the stationary vendor member and a URL of the individual member to the processing system automatically as a result of a short range communication from the pre-positioned short range communication device to the handheld mobile communication device or from the handheld mobile communication device to the pre-positioned short range communication device confirming the physical encounter, a location of the individual member at the physical premises determined by a positioning system, the URL of the individual member associated with the individual member before the physical encounter between the individual member and the stationary vendor member,

each application configured to maintain a viewable, searchable physical encounter history on the handheld mobile communication device of a particular individual member that includes URLs from multiple stationary vendor members, and includes at least one visual timeline of physical encounters of the particular individual member,

the processing system including a database of physical encounter histories of members of the member network whose URL was transmitted to the processing system during the physical encounters.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein upon the instances of the physical encounters, the URL of the stationary vendor member is transmitted by short range communication from the pre-positioned short range communication device to the handheld mobile communication device of the individual member as a proposed entry into the physical encounter history to which the individual member has an option to respond.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication devices are also configured to capture a digital representation of a sensory image perceived by the individual member and wherein at least the database includes a time and geographic place of entry associated with the digital representation, the geographic place of entry determined by the positioning system.

4. The system of claim 1, the mobile communication devices are configured to have a text entry recorded by the individual member and wherein the database includes a time and geographic place of entry associated with the text entry, the geographic place of entry determined by the positioning system.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising

one or more processors having access to the database and configured to (i) respond to a computerized search query by a searching person who is a member of the member network by determining a relationship between the searching person, a reference person who is a member of the member network and a first stationary vendor member of the member network;

and (ii) generate a search result that increases a ranking of the first stationary vendor member as a result of the relationship between the first stationary vendor member, the searching person and the reference person, wherein the relationship is such that;

(a) the reference person'"'"'s physical location history includes a URL of the first stationary vendor member; and

(b) the searching person'"'"'s physical location history and the reference person'"'"'s physical location history each include a URL of a second stationary vendor of the members network.

6. The system of claim 1,

wherein each of the handheld mobile communication devices of the individual members are configured,

upon instances of a physical encounter between the individual member and a second individual member of the member network, to transmit the URL of the individual member and a URL of the second individual member to the processing system automatically as a result of a short range communication from a handheld mobile communication device of the individual member to a handheld mobile communication device of the second individual member confirming the physical encounter.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the database includes a time and place of entry associated with the URL of the individual member and the URL of the second individual member, the place of entry determined by the positioning system, wherein the positioning system is in communication with the mobile communication devices and the processing system.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the mobile communication devices are also configured to capture a digital representation of a sensory image perceived by the individual member and wherein the database includes a time and place entry associated with the digital representation, the place of entry determined by the positioning system.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the mobile communication devices are configured to have a text entry recorded by any individual member of the member network and wherein the database includes a time and geographic place of entry associated with the text entry, the place of entry determined by the positioning system.

10. The system of claim 6, further comprising

one or more processors having access to the database and-configured to (i) respond to a search query by a searching person who is a member of the member network by determining a relationship between the searching person, a reference person who is a member of the member network and a first stationary vendor of the member network;

and (ii) generate a search result that increases a ranking to the first stationary vendor as a result of the relationship between the first stationary vendor, the searching person and the reference person, wherein the relationship is such that;

(a) the reference person'"'"'s physical location history includes the first stationary vendor; and

(b) the searching person'"'"'s physical location history and the reference person'"'"'s physical location history each include a second stationary vendor of the member network.

11. The system of claim 6, further comprising

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a software executed by the one or more processors for:

receiving, by the one or more processors, a computerized search query from a searching person using a client computer;

determining, by the one or more processors, a relationship between the searching person, a reference person and a first stationary vendor of the member network, wherein the relationship is such that (a) the reference person'"'"'s physical location history includes the first stationary vendor; and

(b) the searching person'"'"'s physical location history and the reference person'"'"'s physical location history each include a second stationary vendor of the member network;

generating a computerized search result that increases a ranking of the first vendor as a result of the relationship between the first stationary vendor and the searching person and the reference person; and

transmitting over a telecommunications network, by the one or more processors, the search results to the client computer.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the positioning system is a global positioning system (GPS).

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual timeline is in a form of a monthly calendar.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the URL of the stationary vendor member and the URL of the individual member to the processing system automatically generates a location history entry, in at least the account of the individual member, that includes (i) the URL of, and a location of, the stationary vendor member, (ii) a time of the physical encounter, and (iii) an identity or the account of the individual member and of the stationary vendor member.

15. A computer-implemented method of governing interaction between URL-possessing elements of a physical web that includes a mobile web, the method comprising:

maintaining a processing system that is connected to a telecommunications network;

providing an application that configures a handheld mobile communication device of each individual member of a member network who is mobile, to, upon instances of a physical encounter between a pair of the URL-possessing elements, the pair including the individual member and a stationary vendor member, at a physical premises of the stationary vendor member, the physical premises containing a pre-positioned short range communication device, transmit a URL of the stationary vendor member and a URL of the individual member, to the processing system automatically as a result of a short range communication from the pre-positioned short range communication device to the handheld mobile communication device or from the handheld mobile communication device to the pre-positioned short communication device confirming the physical encounter, a location of the individual member at the physical premises determined by the positioning system, the URL of the individual member associated with the individual member before the physical encounter between the individual member and the stationary vendor member;

each application maintaining a viewable, searchable physical encounter history on the handheld mobile communication device of a particular individual member, the physical encounter history including URLs from multiple stationary vendor members, the physical encounter history including at least one visual timeline of physical encounters of the particular individual member,

maintaining, using the processing system, a database of physical encounter histories of members of the member network whose URL was transmitted to the processing system during the physical encounters.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein upon the instances of the physical encounters, the URL of the stationary vendor member is transmitted by short range communication from the pre-positioned short range communication device to the handheld mobile communication device of the individual member as a proposed entry into the physical encounter history to which the individual member has an option to respond.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the mobile communication devices are configured to capture a digital representation of a sensory image perceived by the individual member and wherein the database includes a time and place of entry associated with the digital representations, the place of entry determined by the positioning system.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the mobile communication devices are configured to have a text entry recorded by the individual member and wherein the database includes a time and place of entry associated with the text entry, the place of entry determined by the positioning system.

19. The method of claim 15

wherein each of the handheld mobile communication devices of the individual members are also configured, upon instances of a physical encounter between the individual member and a second individual member of the member network, to transmit the URL of the individual member and a URL of the second individual member to the processing system automatically as a result of a short range communication from a handheld mobile communication device of the individual member to a handheld mobile communication device of the second individual member confirming the physical encounter.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the database includes a time and geographic place of entry associated with the URL of the individual member and with the URL of the second individual member, the geographic place of entry determined by the positioning system in communication with the mobile communication devices and with the processing system.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the mobile communication devices are configured to capture a digital representation of a sensory image perceived by the individual member or the second individual member and wherein the database includes a time and geographic place of entry associated with the digital representations, the geographic place of entry determined by the positioning system.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the mobile communication devices are configured to have a text entry recorded by the individual member or the second individual member and wherein the database includes a time and geographic place of entry associated with the text entry, the geographic place of entry determined by the positioning system.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the visual timeline is in a form of a monthly calendar.

24. The method of claim 15, wherein the visual timeline includes a geographic location of the physical encounter.

25. The system of claim 15, wherein the visual timeline includes a geographic location of the physical encounter.

26. The system of claim 15, wherein transmitting the URL of the stationary vendor member and the URL of the individual member to the processing system automatically generates a location history entry, in at least the account of the individual member, that includes (i) the URL of, and a location of, the stationary vendor member, (ii) a time of the physical encounter, and (iii) an identity or the account of the individual member and of the stationary vendor member.