TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS BROADCASTED BY USERS OF A NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL NETWORK USING A RADIAL ALGORITHM

• US 20140165091A1
• Filed: 02/14/2014
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Original Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj
• Application Number:
  US14/180,369
• Publication Number:
  US 20140165091A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/24 Arrangements for distribution of identical information via broadcast system and non-broadcast system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08

Abstract

Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of television and radio station broadcast data generation in a constrained geospatial vicinity around a broadcast location of a neighborhood social network. In one embodiment, the station broadcast data is radially distributed as a notification data through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to a set of recipients through an internet protocol (IP) based network associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data generated through the computing device.

Claims

1. A method of a neighborhood broadcast server comprising:

validating that a station broadcast data is associated with a mobile device, wherein the station broadcast data is at least one of a radio station and a television station;

verifying that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data are trusted based on a current geospatial location of the mobile device;

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the station broadcast data is trusted based the current geospatial location of the mobile device; and

automatically publishing the station broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location of the mobile device using a radial algorithm.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining that the station broadcast data is generated by a verified user of the neighborhood broadcast system when validating that the station broadcast data is associated with the mobile device;

determining that an application on the mobile device is communicating the station broadcast data to the neighborhood broadcast server when the station broadcast data is processed; and

associating the verified user with a verified user profile in the neighborhood broadcast server through the application on the mobile device,

wherein the station 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 mobile devices associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the current geospatial location of the mobile device to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area defined by a threshold distance from the current geospatial location of the mobile device through the radial algorithm of the neighborhood broadcast server that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from the current geospatial location at the epicenter.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

extracting the set of geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the station broadcast data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data are trusted based on the current geospatial location of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

determining a relative match between a persistent clock associated with the neighborhood broadcast server and a digital clock of the mobile device to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and time of the station broadcast data is accurate and therefore trusted.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

geocoding a set of residential addresses each associated with a resident name in a neighborhood surrounding the mobile device; 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 current geospatial location of the mobile device in a neighborhood curation system communicatively coupled with the neighborhood broadcast server.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

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

tracking the 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 station broadcast data to the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

processing a claim request of the verified user generating the station broadcast data through the mobile device 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 station broadcast data through the mobile device 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 station broadcast data on the private neighborhood community associated with the verified user generating the station broadcast data through the mobile device 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 station broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location of the mobile device based on a set of preferences of the verified user using the radial algorithm.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

providing a summary data to the verified user generating the station broadcast data through the mobile device of how many user profile pages were updated with an alert of the station broadcast data when publishing the station 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 current geospatial location of the mobile device based on the set of preferences of the verified user.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

live broadcasting the station 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 of the neighborhood broadcast server such that the live broadcast multicasts to a plurality of mobile devices associated with each of the different user and the other verified users simultaneously when the mobile device of the verified user generating the station broadcast data enables broadcasting of the station broadcast data to a geospatial vicinity around the mobile device of the verified user generating the station broadcast data and in any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection using the radial algorithm; 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 station broadcast data through the neighborhood broadcast server using the radial algorithm,

wherein any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a 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 neighborhood broadcast server as being associated with the verified user,

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

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

wherein the neighborhood broadcast server permits users to mute messages of specific verified users to prevent misuse of the neighborhood broadcast server.

10. A method of a neighborhood broadcast server comprising:

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of a station broadcast data is trusted based on a current geospatial location of a computing device;

automatically publishing the station broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location of the computing device using a radial algorithm; and

radially distributing the station broadcast data as a notification data through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to a set of recipients through an internet protocol (IP) based network associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data generated through the computing device.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

validating that the station broadcast data is associated with the computing device; and

verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data are trusted based on the current geospatial location of the computing device.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

determining that the station broadcast data is generated by a user of the neighborhood broadcast system when validating that the station broadcast data is associated with the computing device;

determining that an application on the computing device is communicating the station broadcast data to the neighborhood broadcast server when the station broadcast data is processed; and

associating the user with a user profile in the neighborhood broadcast server through the application on the computing device.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

extracting the geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the station broadcast data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data are trusted based on the current geospatial location of the computing device.

14. A system of a neighborhood broadcast server comprising:

a neighborhood broadcast server to automatically publish a station 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 station broadcast data of a verified user of the neighborhood broadcast server using a radial algorithm,

an internet protocol network, and

a device communicatively coupled with the neighborhood broadcast server through a network to generate the station broadcast data using at least one of a camera, a microphone, and a sensory capability of the device 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 the captured data in generating the station broadcast data.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the neighborhood broadcast server further comprises:

a validation module to validate that the station broadcast data is associated with the device and to verify the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data are trusted based on a current geospatial location of the device,

a time stamp module to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and the creation time of the station broadcast data is trusted based the current geospatial location of the device,

a publishing module to automatically publish the station broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location of the device using the radial algorithm,

a verification module to determine that the station broadcast data is generated by the verified user of the neighborhood broadcast system when validating that the station broadcast data is associated with the device,

a communication determining module to determine that an application on the device is communicating the station broadcast data to the neighborhood broadcast server when the station broadcast data is processed,

an application module to associate the verified user with a verified user profile in the neighborhood broadcast server through the application on the device, and

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

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising:

an extraction module to extract the geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the station broadcast data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data are trusted based on the current geospatial location of the device.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising:

a matching module to determine a relative match between a persistent clock associated with the neighborhood broadcast server and a digital clock of the device to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and time of the station broadcast data is accurate and therefore trusted.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising:

a plotting module to geocode a set of residential addresses each associated with a resident name in a neighborhood surrounding the device, and

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 current geospatial location of the device in a neighborhood curation system communicatively coupled with the neighborhood broadcast server.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising:

a modification module to permit the verified user to modify content in each of the set of user profiles,

a discovery module to track the 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, and

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.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising:

A claiming module to process a claim request of the verified user generating the station broadcast data through the device to be associated with the 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 station broadcast data through the device 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 station broadcast data on the private neighborhood community associated with the verified user generating the station broadcast data through the device 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 station broadcast data on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location of the device based on a set of preferences of the verified user using the radial algorithm,

a summary module to provide a summary data to the verified user generating the station broadcast data through the device of how many user profile pages were updated with an alert of the station broadcast data when publishing the station 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 current geospatial location of the device based on the set of preferences of the verified user,

a live broadcast module to live broadcast the station 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 of the neighborhood broadcast server such that the live broadcast multicasts to a plurality of devices associated with each of the different user and the other verified users simultaneously when the device of the verified user generating the station broadcast data enables broadcasting of the station broadcast data to a geospatial vicinity around the device of the verified user generating the station broadcast data and in any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection using the radial algorithm,

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 station broadcast data through the neighborhood broadcast server using the radial algorithm,

wherein any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a 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 neighborhood broadcast server as being associated with the verified user,

a threshold module to optimize a relevancy of the station broadcast data wherein the threshold radial distance is between 0.2 and 0.4 miles from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data,

a television module to generate a set of neighborhood television stations distributed through the internet protocol network such that recipients in in a region bounded by the threshold radial distance are permitted to access and tune in each of the set of neighborhood television stations based on at least one of a claimed neighborhood profile and the current geospatial location of a recipient,

a radio module to generate a set of neighborhood radio stations distributed through the internet protocol network such that recipients in the region bounded by the threshold radial distance are permitted to access and tune in to each of the set of neighborhood radio stations based on at least one of the claimed neighborhood profile and the current geospatial location of the recipient,

a crowdsourced-moderation algorithm in which multiple neighbors to a geospatial area determine what content contributed to the neighborhood broadcast server persists and which is deleted,

a muting module to permit users to mute messages of specific verified users to prevent misuse of the neighborhood broadcast server,

wherein the neighborhood broadcast server permits the station broadcast data to be disseminated to adjacent neighborhoods that have been claimed by different users in a manner such that the station broadcast data is optionally disseminated to the surrounding claimed neighborhoods based on the set of preference of the verified user,

wherein the claimed neighborhood of the verified user is activated based on a minimum number of other verified users in the threshold radial distance that have been verified through a primary residential address associated with each of the other verified users through at least one of a post card verification, a utility bill verification, a privately-published access code, and a neighbor vouching method,

wherein access to the station broadcast data is restricted to the claimed neighborhood of the verified user, and

wherein access to the station broadcast data is denied to users having verified addresses outside the claimed neighborhood of the verified user.