System and method for location based content correlation
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1. A system comprising:
- a wireless receiver and transmitter;
a location unit to render location data;
a display;
a plurality of servers coupled to a wide-area network having location-based content stored in at least one memory device;
at least one client to communicate with the wide-area network, the at least one client being mobile;
the at least one client having a browser to transmit content requests including current location data to the plurality of servers and to render location-based content returned in response to the requests;
wherein the at least one client requests one of goods and services and at least one server returns product offers based on the current location data.
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Abstract
A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example hyperlinked content can be received from a user including current geographical position data. The current geographical position data can be extracted from the hyperlinked content. Location or geographically-based content can be selected based on the current geographical position data. The geographical based content can be returned to the user.
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87 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a wireless receiver and transmitter;
a location unit to render location data;
a display;
a plurality of servers coupled to a wide-area network having location-based content stored in at least one memory device;
at least one client to communicate with the wide-area network, the at least one client being mobile;
the at least one client having a browser to transmit content requests including current location data to the plurality of servers and to render location-based content returned in response to the requests;
wherein the at least one client requests one of goods and services and at least one server returns product offers based on the current location data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system comprising:
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a plurality of servers coupled to a wide-area network having a plurality of geographically organized product content stored in at least one memory device;
a plurality of clients that communicate with the wide-area network over a communications medium, the plurality of clients having varying locations;
means for generating location data for each of the plurality of clients;
the plurality of clients each having a hyperlink browser to send HTTP requests to the plurality of servers and to render geographically organized product content returned in response to the HTTP requests;
wherein the hyperlink browser of a particular client includes current location data of the particular client in HTTP requests, and wherein the plurality of servers select geographically organized product content in response to the HTTP requests depending on the location data in HTTP requests. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
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a plurality of servers coupled to a wide-area network having geographically-based offer content stored in at least one memory device;
a plurality of clients to communicate with the wide-area network over a communications medium, the plurality of clients having varying locations;
means for generating location data for each of the plurality of clients;
the plurality of clients each having a hyperlink browser to send HTTP requests to the plurality of servers and to render offer content returned in response to the HTTP requests;
wherein the hyperlink browser of a particular client includes current location data of the particular client in HTTP requests, and wherein the plurality of servers select geographically-based offer content in response to the HTTP requests depending on the current location data in HTTP requests. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A system comprising:
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a global positioning system (GPS) device to render location coordinates;
a display coupled to the GPS;
a wireless receiver and transmitter coupled to the GPS;
a plurality of servers coupled to a wide-area network having location-based content stored in at least one memory device;
at least one client that communicates with the wide-area network, the at least one client being mobile;
the at least one client having a hyperlink browser to send HTTP requests including location coordinates to the plurality of servers and to render location-based content returned in response to the HTTP requests;
wherein the at least one client requests at least one of goods and services and the servers return location-based offers from at least one vendor of the goods and services. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method comprising:
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receiving hyperlinked content from a user including current geographical position data;
extracting the current geographical position data from the hyperlinked content;
selecting geographically-based content based on the current geographical position data; and
communicating the geographically-based content to the user. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A method comprising:
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selecting at least one of a good and a service;
rendering current geographical position data;
receiving hyperlinked content from a user including the current geographical position data and the selected at least one of a good and a service;
determining vendors within a range of the current geographical position data that have the at least one of a good and a service;
returning a list of vendors that have the at least one of a good and a service in the range of the current geographical position data. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A method comprising:
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selecting vendors to receive offers from;
transmitting hyperlinked content to a server including current geographical position data;
extracting the current geographical position data;
determining selected vendors within a range of the current geographical position data; and
returning available offers from the vendors in the range of the current geographical position data. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A machine-accessible medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to:
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receive hyperlinked content from a user including current geographical position data;
select geographically-based content based on the current geographical position data; and
communicate the geographically-based content to the user. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A machine-accessible medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to:
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render current geographical position data;
receive hyperlinked content from a user including the current geographical position data and at least one pre-selected listing, the listing being one of a good and a service;
determine vendors within a range of the current geographical position data that have the at least one selected listing; and
communicate a list of vendors that have the at least one pre-selected listing in a range of the current geographical position data. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A machine-accessible medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to:
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transmit hyperlinked content to a server including current geographical position data;
extract the current geographical position data;
determine at least one vendor within a selected range of the current geographical position data to receive an offer from; and
return available offers from the at least one merchant in the selected range of the current geographical position data. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
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77. A system comprising:
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means for receiving hyperlinked content from a user including current geographical position data;
means for extracting the current geographical position data from the hyperlinked content;
means for selecting geographically-based content based on the current geographical position data; and
means for communicating the geographically-based content to the user. - View Dependent Claims (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83)
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84. A system comprising:
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means for selecting vendors to receive offers from;
means for receiving hyperlinked content by a server including current geographical position data;
means for extracting the current geographical position data;
means for determining vendors within a range of the current geographical position data; and
means for returning available offers from the vendors in the range of the current geographical position data. - View Dependent Claims (85, 86, 87)
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