FEMTO CELL SERVICE DELIVERY PLATFORM REAL-TIME VOTING AND FEEDBACK

• US 20100304764A1
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sweeney, Jeffrey, Rooks, Kelsyn D.S.
• Application Number:
  US12/471,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20100304764A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosed invention include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for providing a local cellular feedback network to enable communication with a plurality of cellular devices within an enclosed area without communicating through a wireless carrier network. For instance, certain of the disclosed embodiments may be utilized, but are not limited to, enabling localize voting and auctioning via regular cellular devices. In addition, certain of the disclosed embodiments may be utilized to provide other services to a user of cellular device, such as, but not limited to, ordering food items at a venue and having the ordered food items delivered to the user based on location tracking information gathered by the feedback system.

Claims

1. A feedback system comprising:

a communication component that is configured to communicate data with a plurality of cellular devices via one or more femto cells over a feedback network;

a processing component that processes the data from the plurality of cellular devices to identify a prespecified code; and

logic for identifying a particular cellular device that transmitted the identified prespecified code and associating the identified prespecified code with the particular cellular device.

2. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising logic for transmitting a selected document to one or more of the cellular devices and receiving responses associated with the document from the one or more of the cellular devices.

3. The feedback system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of cellular devices are located within an enclosed area.

4. The feedback system of claim 2, wherein the communication component is further configured to communicate with a web server for receiving the selected document.

5. The feedback system of claim 2, wherein the selected document is a survey and the responses are answers to the survey.

6. The feedback system of claim 2, wherein the selected document is a ballot and the responses are selections associated with the ballot.

8. The feedback system of claim 2, further comprising logic for determining whether the responses are valid responses and for retransmitting the selected document to a cellular device associated with the responses in response to a determination that the responses are invalid responses, wherein the retransmit document includes an indication that a prior response was invalid.

9. The feedback system of claim 1, wherein the cellular devices are unmodified cell phones belonging to subscribers of the cellular devices.

10. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising logic for communicating with a web server for registering subscriber information associated with plurality of cellular devices located in an enclosed area.

11. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising:

the data storage component storing identification data associated with cellular devices within the enclosed area; and

the processing component executing instructions to identify a particular cellular device associated with the data using the stored identification data.

12. The feedback system of claim 10, wherein the data represents a bid on an auction item.

13. The feedback system of claim 10, further comprising the processing component executing instructions to generate a list of participants using the stored identification data.

14. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising logic for transmitting a confirmation message to a particular cellular device in response to receiving data from the particular cellular device.

15. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising an interactive voice response component for communicating information and receiving responses from one or more cellular devices located in the enclosed area.

16. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising logic for compiling the data received from the plurality of cellular devices into a visual representation format.

17. The feedback system of claim 15, wherein the visual representation format includes one of a graph, a chart, or a table.

18. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising logic for determining a location of a transmitting cellular device within an enclosed area using one or more of the femto cells for triangulating the cellular signal associated with the transmitting cellular device.

19. The feedback system of claim 1, further comprising logic for determining a location of a transmitting cellular device within an enclosed area using ticketing information associated with an event being held at the enclosed area.

7. (canceled)

20. A computer implemented method for communicating with a plurality of cellular devices, the computer implemented method comprising:

receiving data from a plurality of cellular devices via one or more femto cells over a feedback network;

processing the data from the plurality of cellular devices; and

providing feedback to the plurality of cellular devices via the feedback network.

21. A femto cell comprising:

a communication component that is configured to communicate a document to a plurality of cellular devices and receive responses associated with the document from the plurality of cellular devices;

a data storage component that stores identification data associated with the plurality of cellular devices; and

a processing component executing instructions to correlate responses to a respective cellular device using the stored identification data.