SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND DISPLAYING USER PROVIDED CONTENT

• US 20120096098A1
• Filed: 10/14/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Be Labs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Be Labs, Inc.
• Inventors: Balassanian, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/274,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20120096098A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A system and method for receiving anonymous messages from users. The geographical location and time related to each anonymous message is received and stored by the system. A visual interface displays the anonymous messages based on the geographical location and time for each message. The system allows the determination of the context of the anonymous messages and enables advertisers to place ads among one or more anonymous messages of related context.

Claims

1. A system for displaying one or more messages from one or more users, comprising:

a message receiver configured to receive the one or more messages from the one or more users;

a message analyzer configured to analyze the one or more messages;

a location module configured to determine the location of each user in the one or more users;

a time module configured to determine the time each message in the one or more messages is received by the message receiver;

a message database configured to store the one or more messages, the message database being further configured to store location and time information in conjunction with the one or more messages;

a web interface configured to display the one or more messages, wherein each particular message in the one or more messages is displayed based on the location of the user who sent the particular message.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one message in the one or more messages is anonymous.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one message in the one or more messages is associated with a specific individual.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one message in the one or more messages comprises at least one of:

text, image, audio, or video.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the message analyzer is further configured to determine keywords for the purposes of advertisement;

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the message analyzer is further configured to determine offensive language within a message.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the system further comprises an advertisement database.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the advertisement database is configured to determine the context of at least one message at a specific location and is further configured to display contextually similar advertisements in association with the at least one message at a specific location.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein only messages within a specific location are displayed.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein only messages within a specific time period are displayed.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one message in the one or more messages is displayed on a visual map relative to the geographical location from which the at least one message was submitted.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one message in the one or more messages is displayed on a visual representation of a building or structure relative to the geographical location from which the at least one message was submitted.