GARAGE SALES IN A GEO-SPATIAL SOCIAL NETWORK

• US 20140143061A1
• Filed: 02/07/2014
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Original Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj
• Application Number:
  US14/174,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20140143061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.58
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and a system of an automatic publication of garage sale broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data. The garage sale broadcast data is radially distributed to data processing systems associated with users and their profiles around an epicenter (defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data) to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area (defined by the threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data) through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from the current geospatial location at the epicenter.

Claims

1. A method of a garage sale server comprising:

validating that a garage sale broadcast data is associated with a verified user of a garage sale network using a processor and a memory;

verifying that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network;

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the garage sale broadcast data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network; and

automatically publishing the garage sale broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale server using a radial algorithm.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

processing at least one of a listing criteria comprising a description, a photograph, a video, a price, a type, a category, a functional status of an item offered in a garage sale associated with the garage sale listing, wherein the item is at least one of a physical good and a service offered by the verified user through the garage sale;

populating an availability chart when the garage sale associated with the listing criteria is posted, wherein the availability chart includes at least one of a delivery radius, a pickup timing, an on-home lockbox access key, and a sold status indicator of items of the garage sale;

presenting the garage sale broadcast data as a garage sale pushpin of the garage sale in a geospatial map surrounding pre-populated residential and business listings in a surrounding vicinity, such that the garage sale pushpin of the garage sale is automatically presented on a geospatial map in addition to being presented on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale network,

wherein the garage sale broadcast data is radially distributed through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to desktop and data processing systems associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area defined by a threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from a current geospatial location at the epicenter.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

permitting the verified user to drag and drop the garage sale pushpin on any location on the geospatial map, and automatically determining a latitude and a longitude associated a placed location, and

generating at least one of;

a for-sale view of the garage sale in which the verified user offers items of the garage sale for sale through the garage sale server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale network, and

a for-rent view of the garage sale in which the verified user offers items of the garage sale for rent through the garage sale server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale network.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

extracting a geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the garage sale broadcast data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data are trusted based on the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

determining a relative match between a persistent clock associated with the garage sale server and a digital clock of a data processing system to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and time of the garage sale broadcast data is accurate and therefore trusted; and

automatically deleting the garage sale broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale server based on a listing expiration time.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

geocoding a set of residential addresses each associated with a resident name in a neighborhood surrounding the data processing system; and

prepopulating the set of residential addresses each associated with the resident name as the set of user profiles in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server in a neighborhood curation system communicatively coupled with the garage sale network.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

permitting the verified user to modify content in each of the set of user profiles;

tracking a modified content through the neighborhood curation system;

generating a reversible history journal associated with each of the set of user profiles such that a modification of the verified user can be undone on a modified user profile page;

determining an editing credibility of the verified user based on an edit history of the verified user and a community contribution validation of the verified user by other users of the neighborhood curation system; and

automatically publishing the garage sale broadcast data to the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server using the radial algorithm.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

processing a claim request of the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system to be associated with an address of the neighborhood curation system;

determining if a claimable neighborhood in the neighborhood curation system is associated with a private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the neighborhood curation system;

associating the verified user with the private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the neighborhood curation system if the private neighborhood community has been activated by at least one of the verified user and a different verified user;

permitting the verified user to draw a set of boundary lines in a form of a geospatial polygon such that the claimable neighborhood in a geospatial region surrounding the claim request creates the private neighborhood community in the neighborhood curation system if the private neighborhood community is inactive;

verifying the claim request of the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system to be associated with a neighborhood address of the neighborhood curation system when the address is determined to be associated with at least one of a work address and a residential address of the verified user; and

simultaneously publishing the garage sale broadcast data on the private neighborhood community associated with the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system in the threshold radial distance from the address associated with the claim request of the verified user of the neighborhood curation system when automatically publishing the garage sale broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server based on a set of preferences of the verified user using the radial algorithm.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

providing a summary data to the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system of how many user profile pages were updated with an alert of the garage sale broadcast data when publishing the garage sale broadcast data in at least one of the private neighborhood community and the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server based on the set of preferences of the verified user.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

live broadcasting the garage sale broadcast data to the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community and currently within the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location through a multicast algorithm in the garage sale server such that a live broadcast multicasts to a plurality of data processing systems associated with each of a different user and other verified users simultaneously when the data processing system of the verified user generating a live-broadcast enables broadcasting of the garage sale broadcast data to any one of a geospatial vicinity around the data processing system of the verified user generating a broadcast and in any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection; and

permitting the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community to bi-directionally communicate with the verified user generating the broadcast through the garage sale network,

wherein any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has the non-transitory connection is at least one of the residential address of the verified user and the work address of the verified user that has been confirmed by the garage sale server as being associated with the verified user,

wherein the threshold distance is between 0.2 and 0.4 miles from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data to optimize a relevancy of the live-broadcast, and

wherein the garage sale server includes a crowdsourced moderation algorithm in which multiple neighbors to a geospatial area determine what content contributed to the garage sale server persists and which is deleted, and

wherein the garage sale server permits users to mute messages of specific verified users to prevent misuse of the garage sale network.

11. A method of a neighborhood communication system comprising:

applying an address verification algorithm associated with each user of an online community of a private neighborhood using a privacy server;

determining that a neighbor in the private neighborhood wishes to enter into a transaction related to an item in possession of the neighbor in the private neighborhood; and

automatically publishing the item to a set of adjacent neighbors to the neighbor such that the item is visible only to users of the private neighborhood, and wherein the neighbor and the other neighbors are each users of the online community.

12. The method of claim 11:

determining that a marker is colliding with another marker simultaneously displayed in a map based on an overlap area of the marker with the another marker;

automatically creating a group pointer that replaces the marker and the another marker on the map;

generating a view of the marker and the another marker when a user selects the group pointer;

generating a multiple-structure group pointer when the marker and the another marker are associated with adjacent structures which are not shared by occupants identified through the marker and the another marker; and

verifying that each user lives at a residence associated with a claimable residential address of the online community formed through a social community module of the privacy server using a processor and a memory;

generating a latitudinal data and a longitudinal data associated with each claimable residential address of the online community associated with each user of the online community;

determining a set of access privileges in the online community associated with each user of the online community by constraining access in the online community based on a neighborhood boundary determined using a Bezier curve algorithm of the privacy server;

transforming the claimable residential address into a claimed address upon an occurrence of an event;

instantiating the event when a particular user is associated with the claimable residential address based on a verification of the particular user as living at a particular residential address associated with the claimable residential address using the privacy server;

constraining the particular user to communicate through the online community only with a set of neighbors having verified addresses using the privacy server;

defining the set of neighbors as other users of the online community that have each verified their addresses in the online community using the privacy server and which have each claimed residential addresses that are in a threshold radial distance from the claimed address of the particular user; and

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the garage sale broadcast data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network.

13. The method of claim 12:

constraining the threshold radial distance to be less than a distance of the neighborhood boundary using the Bezier curve algorithm;

permitting the neighborhood boundary to take on a variety of shapes based on at least one of an associated geographic connotation, a historical connotation, a political connotation, and a cultural connotation of neighborhood boundaries; and

applying a database of constraints associated with neighborhood boundaries that are imposed on a map view of the online community when permitting the neighborhood boundary to take on the variety of shapes.

14. The method of claim 13:

generating a user-generated boundary in a form of a polygon describing geospatial boundaries defining the particular neighborhood when a first user of a particular neighborhood that verifies a first residential address of the particular neighborhood using the privacy server prior to other users in that particular neighborhood verifying their addresses in that particular neighborhood places a set of points defining the particular neighborhood using a set of drawing tools in the map view of the online community.

15. The method of claim 14:

optionally extending the threshold radial distance to an adjacent boundary of an adjacent neighborhood based a request of the particular user;

generating a separate login to the online community designed to be usable by at least one of a police department, a municipal agency, a neighborhood association, and a neighborhood leader associated with the particular neighborhood;

permitting at least one of the police department, the municipal agency, the neighborhood association, and the neighborhood leader to;

invite residents of the particular neighborhood themselves using the privacy server using a self-authenticating access code that permits new users that enter the self-authenticating access code in the online community to automatically join the particular neighborhood as verified users,

generate at least one of a virtual neighborhood watch group and an emergency preparedness group restricted to users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server,

conduct high value crime and safety related discussions from local police and fire officials that is restricted to users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server,

broadcast information across the particular neighborhood, and

receive and track neighborhood level membership and activity to identify leaders from the restricted group of users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server.

16. The method of claim 15:

permitting each of the restricted group of users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server to;

share information about a suspicious activity that is likely to affect several neighborhoods,

explain about a lost pet that might have wandered into an adjoining neighborhood,

rally support from neighbors from multiple neighborhoods to address civic issues,

spread information about events comprising a local theater production and a neighborhood garage sale, and

solicit advice and recommendations from the restricted group of users verified in the particular neighborhood and optionally in the adjacent neighborhood.

17. A system comprising:

a garage sale server to automatically publish a garage sale broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of a verified user of the garage sale server using a radial algorithm;

a network; and

a data processing system communicatively coupled with the garage sale server through the network to generate a garage sale data using at least one of a camera, a microphone, and a sensory capability of the data processing system to generate a captured data that is appended with a present geospatial location and a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of captured data in generating the garage sale data.

18. The system of claim 17 in which the garage sale server further comprises:

a validation module to determine that the garage sale broadcast data is associated with the verified user of a garage sale network using a processor and a memory and to ensure that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network,

a time stamp module to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and a creation time of the garage sale broadcast data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network,

a listing module comprising at least one of a listing criteria comprising a description, a photograph, a video, a price, a type, a category, a functional status of an item offered in a garage sale associated with the garage sale listing, wherein the item is at least one of a physical good and a service offered by the verified user through the garage sale,

a charting module to populate an availability chart when the garage sale associated with the listing criteria is posted, wherein the availability chart includes at least one of a delivery radius, a pickup timing, an on-home lockbox access key, and a sold status indicator of items of the garage sale,

a pushpin module to present the garage sale broadcast data as a garage sale pushpin of the garage sale in a geospatial map surrounding pre-populated residential and business listings in a surrounding vicinity, such that the garage sale pushpin of the garage sale is automatically presented on a geospatial map in addition to being presented on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale network, and

a radial distribution module to radially distributed through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to desktop and data processing systems associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area defined by a threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from a current geospatial location at the epicenter.

19. The system of claim 18 in which the garage sale server further comprises:

a placement module to enable the verified user to drag and drop the garage sale pushpin on any location on the geospatial map, and automatically determining a latitude and a longitude associated a placed location, and

to generate at least one of;

a for-sale view of the garage sale in which the verified user offers items of the garage sale for sale through the garage sale server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale network, and

a for-rent view of the garage sale in which the verified user offers items of the garage sale for rent through the garage sale server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale network.

20. The system of claim 19 in which the garage sale server further comprises:

an extraction module to separate a geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the garage sale broadcast data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data are trusted based on the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale network;

a matching module to determine a relative match between a persistent clock associated with the garage sale server and a digital clock of the data processing system to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and time of the garage sale broadcast data is accurate and therefore trusted;

a deletion module automatically deleting the garage sale broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data of the verified user of the garage sale server based on a listing expiration time; and

a plotting module to geocode a set of residential addresses each associated with a resident name in a neighborhood surrounding the data processing system;

a data-seeding module to prepopulate the set of residential addresses each associated with the resident name as the set of user profiles in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server in a neighborhood curation system communicatively coupled with the garage sale network;

a modification module to alter content in each of the set of user profiles;

a discovery module to find a modified content through the neighborhood curation system;

an undo module to generate a reversible history journal associated with each of the set of user profiles such that a modification of the verified user can be undone on a modified user profile page;

a reputation module to determine an editing credibility of the verified user based on an edit history of the verified user and a community contribution validation of the verified user by other users of the neighborhood curation system;

a publishing module to automatically publishing the garage sale broadcast data to the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server using the radial algorithm;

a claiming module to process a claim request of the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system to be associated with an address of the neighborhood curation system;

a private-neighborhood module to determine if a claimable neighborhood in the neighborhood curation system is associated with a private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the neighborhood curation system;

an association module to associate the verified user with the private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the neighborhood curation system if the private neighborhood community has been activated by at least one of the verified user and a different verified user;

a boundary module to permit the verified user to draw a set of boundary lines in a form of a geospatial polygon such that the claimable neighborhood in a geospatial region surrounding the claim request creates the private neighborhood community in the neighborhood curation system if the private neighborhood community is inactive;

an address type module to verify the claim request of the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system to be associated with a neighborhood address of the neighborhood curation system when the address is determined to be associated with at least one of a work address and a residential address of the verified user;

a concurrency module to simultaneously publish the garage sale broadcast data on the private neighborhood community associated with the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system in the threshold radial distance from the address associated with the claim request of the verified user of the neighborhood curation system when automatically publishing the garage sale broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server based on a set of preferences of the verified user using the radial algorithm;

a summary module to generate a summary data to the verified user generating the garage sale broadcast data through the data processing system of how many user profile pages were updated with an alert of the garage sale broadcast data when publishing the garage sale broadcast data in at least one of the private neighborhood community and the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the garage sale server based on the set of preferences of the verified user;

a live broadcast module to live broadcasting the garage sale broadcast data to the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community and currently within the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location through a multicast algorithm in the garage sale server such that a live broadcast multicasts to a plurality of data processing systems associated with each of a different user and other verified users simultaneously when the data processing system of the verified user generating a live-broadcast enables broadcasting of the garage sale broadcast data to any one of a geospatial vicinity around the data processing system of the verified user generating a broadcast and in any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection;

a bi-directional communication module to permit the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community to bi-directionally communicate with the verified user generating the broadcast through the garage sale network;

a non-transitory module to determine any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has the non-transitory connection is at least one of the residential address of the verified user and the work address of the verified user that has been confirmed by the garage sale server as being associated with the verified user;

a threshold module to automatically set the threshold distance between 0.2 and 0.4 miles from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data to optimize a relevancy of the live-broadcast;

a moderation module to apply a crowdsourced moderation algorithm in which multiple neighbors to a geospatial area determine what content contributed to the garage sale server persists and which is deleted; and

a muting module to permit users to mute messages of specific verified users to prevent misuse of the garage sale network.