ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR LOCATION BASED CONTENT PROVISION

• US 20150312715A1
• Filed: 04/23/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lapdoog Oy
• Original Assignee: Lapdoog Oy
• Inventors: HAAVISTO, Jouni, NARKILAHTI, Kimmo
• Application Number:
  US14/259,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20150312715A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

Electronic arrangement including a network accessible service display entity for enabling a user to obtain information regarding an asset associated with physical location via service display accessible with a terminal device, a location management entity configured to obtain an indication of a physical location of the user, a zone database configured to store a plurality of geographical content provision zones for the asset relating to the physical location of the asset, and a content provision entity configured to provide content to a user visiting the service display based on the particular zone whereto the user location is mapped. Related method and computer program product are presented.

Claims

1. An electronic arrangement comprising

a network accessible service display entity for enabling a user to obtain information regarding an asset associated with physical location via service display accessible with a terminal device,

a location management entity configured to obtain an indication of a physical location of the user,

a zone database configured to store a plurality of geographical content provision zones for the asset relating to the physical location of the asset, and

a content provision entity configured to provide content to a user visiting said service display based on the particular zone whereto the user location is mapped.

2. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein the service display incorporates a web site or web page at least partially controlled by the service display entity.

3. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to obtain control input regarding the existing content or content provision rules and to edit said content or content provision rules responsive to the control input.

4. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to obtain control input regarding the existing content or content provision rules and to edit said content or content provision rules responsive to the control input, wherein the arrangement is obtain said input during a data provision campaign relating to the asset and to revise said content or rules during the campaign based on the input to preferably take effect substantially immediately.

5. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein a geographical content provision zone or a content item is associated with temporal data, optionally a time schedule, period of validity, expiration period, or expiration time.

6. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to associate a geographical content provision zone physically closer to the location of the asset with a content item temporally closer to the present, and configured to associate another geographical content provision zone farther away from the location of the asset with another content item temporally farther from the present.

7. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein the location management entity is configured to obtain the indication of the location of the user via the terminal device of the user.

8. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to obtain the indication of the location of the user via the terminal device'"'"'s IP (Internet Protocol) address.

9. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to obtain the indication of the location of the user via cellular data, optionally cell-ID data, associated with the terminal device.

10. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to obtain the indication of the location of the user via positioning data, optionally GPS (Global Positioning System) or GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) data, associated with the terminal device.

11. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to obtain the indication of the location of the user via a second terminal device, wherein the second terminal device has been linked with the user in the user information accessible to the arrangement.

12. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to transmit data to construct said service display via a dedicated software application, optionally a mobile application, running on the terminal device.

13. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to define one or more geographical content provision zones by manual control input, optionally through selection via graphical user interface preferably incorporating a map layout.

14. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein at least one geographical content provision zone encompasses, surrounds or neighbors the physical location of the asset.

15. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein one or more of said geographical content provision zones are substantially of regular shape, optionally substantially of circular, elliptical, or square shape.

16. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein a geographical content provision zone is at least partially defined by a geographical separator, optionally street, river, bridge, railway, sea, shore, building, park, forest or other landmark.

17. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein a geographical content provision zone is at least partially defined by administrative border, optionally city, district or other area border.

18. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein a geographical content provision zone is associated with a plurality of optionally dedicated content items, such as at least partially visual items incorporating textual and optionally audible message elements.

19. The arrangement of claim 1, comprising one or more server entities, optionally located in a cloud computing environment, configured to host the entities and the zone database.

20. The arrangement of claim 1, configured to determine statistics or metrics, optionally accessible via a digital dashboard, regarding service display visits, preferably comprising indication of the number of visits, location of visiting users and/or actions taken by user via the service display.

21. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein the asset is at least one element selected from the group consisting of:

a business, restaurant, club, cafeteria, store, department store, warehouse store, chain of stores, boutique, beauty salon, hear salon, cobbler, rental service, hotel, gas station, sports venue, institution, governmental institution, and event.

22. A method for location based content provision to be performed by one or more electronic devices, comprising

defining a number of geographically limited content provision zones for an asset associated with a geographical location,

monitoring user visits to the asset'"'"'s network accessible service display, preferably a web page regarding the asset,

obtaining an indication of a location of a visiting user, and

providing content to said user visiting said service display based on the particular zone where the user location is mapped to.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein statistics are determined regarding service display visits, preferably comprising information on the number of visits, locations of visiting users and/or actions taken by the users.

24. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable carrier medium, comprising computer code causing the computer to execute:

defining one or more geographical content provision zones for an asset associated with a geographical location,

monitoring visits to the asset'"'"'s network accessible service display, optionally a web page regarding the asset,

obtaining indication of a location of a user visiting the service display, and

providing digital content to said user based on the particular zone where the user location is mapped to.