METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERY OF LOCAL ACTIVITIES BASED ON AUTONOMOUS SUGGESTION FOR DISCOVERY OF LOCAL ACTIVITIES

• US 20110191697A1
• Filed: 02/03/2010
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: We Create, Inc.
• Original Assignee: We Create, Inc.
• Inventors: Turner, Cameron, Drimmie, Robert M., Sambells, Jeffrey, Sumner, Victor
• Application Number:
  US12/699,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191697A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system for autonomously suggesting an activity to a user of a locality platform application, based on a range of locality factors. The method comprises accessing a locality platform application at the user interface of the client device, determining a location of the client device, computing at least one influencer factor based on the determined location, compiling at least one suggestion for the locality-related activity, the compiled suggestion at least partly based on the at least one influencer factor, and providing, at the user interface of the client device, the at least one suggestion.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, executed in a processor, of discovering and suggesting a locality-related activity at a user interface of a client device, the method comprising:

accessing a locality platform application at the user interface of the client device;

determining a location of the client device;

computing at least one influencer factor based on the determined location;

compiling at least one suggestion for the locality-related activity, the compiled suggestion at least partly based on the at least one influencer factor;

and

providing, at the user interface of the client device, the at least one suggestion.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising inferring a locality from the determined location, and computing at a least a second influencer factor based on the inferred locality.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising compiling the at least one suggestion at least partly based on the at least a one influencer and the at least a second influencer factors.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the location of the client device is determined based on use of an installed browser-based location sensor.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the location of the client device is determined as an approximate latitude and longitude, the determination being based on parsing passive data entered by a user in response to a prompt, the passive data comprising a text string.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the location of the client device is inferred as the location of an entity associated with a prior activity at the user interface of the client device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of accessing a locality platform application comprises access using a user interface selected from the group of user interfaces consisting of mobile, chat, SMS, and a web-based user interface.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising selecting, at the user interface of the client device, the at least one suggestion provided, and in response to the selecting, storing within a memory of the client device, a location, a time and a phone number of the suggested locality-based activity.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising compiling the at least one suggestion for the locality-related activity at least partly based on review and rating data.

10. A computer system for discovering and suggesting a locality-related activity at a user interface of a client device, the system comprising:

a locality inference module for determining a location of the client device; and

a suggestion engine for computing at least one influencer factor based on the determined location and for compiling at least one suggestion for the locality-related activity, the compiled suggestion at least partly based on the at least one influencer factor;

wherein the compiled at least one suggestion is provided at the user interface of the client device.

11. The computer system of claim 10 wherein the locality inference module infers a locality from the determined location, and the suggestion engine computes at a least a second influencer factor based on the inferred locality.

12. The computer system of claim 11 wherein the suggestion engine compiles the at least one suggestion at least partly based on the at least one influencer and the at least a second influencer factors.

13. The computer system of claim 10 wherein the location inference module determines the location of the client device based on use of an installed browser-based location sensor.

14. The computer system of claim 10 wherein the location inference module determines the location of the client device based on parsing passive data entered at the user interface of the client device in response to a prompt, the passive data comprising a text string.

15. The computer system of claim 10 wherein the location inference module determines the location of the client device by inferring the location of an entity associated with a prior activity at the user interface of the client device.

16. The computer system of claim 10 wherein the at least one suggestion is provided via a user interface selected from the group of user interfaces consisting of mobile, chat, SMS, and a web-based user interface.

17. The computer system of claim 10 further comprising selecting, at the user interface of the client device, the at least one suggestion provided, and in response to the selecting, storing within a memory of the client device, a location, a time and a phone number of the suggested locality-based activity.

18. A client device for receiving and displaying a suggestion of a locality-based activity, the client device comprising:

a user interface application for accessing a locality platform; and

a locality inference module for determining a location of the client device;

wherein at least one suggestion of a locality-related activity is received from the locality platform, the at least one suggestion for provision at the user interface of the client device at least partly based on the determined location.

19. A communication system for autonomously suggesting a locality-related activity when a locality platform application is accessed at a user interface of a client device, the communication system having a processor and memory, the memory including instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication system to perform the steps of:

determining a location of the client device;

computing at least one influencer factor based on the determined location;

compiling at least one suggestion for the locality-related activity, the compiled suggestion at least partly based on the at least one influencer factor; and

providing, at the user interface of the client device, the at least one suggestion.