System and Method for Automatically Pushing Location-Specific Content to Users

• US 20160050283A1
• Filed: 08/18/2014
• Published: 02/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Azose, Benjamin Albert
• Granted Patent: US 10,148,772 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5683 Storage of data provided by user terminals, i.e. reverse caching

Abstract

In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for automatically pushing location-specific content to users may generally include identifying, by one or more computing devices, a geographic location at which a plurality of users have viewed location-specific content on their client devices, identifying at least one common content item associated with the location-specific content viewed by two or more of the users, receiving an indication that a first user is traveling to the geographic location and transmitting the common content item(s) for storage on a client device associated with the first user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for automatically pushing location-specific content to users, the method comprising:

identifying, by one or more computing devices, a geographic location at which a plurality of users have viewed location-specific content on their client devices;

identifying, by the one or more computing devices, at least one common content item associated with the location-specific content viewed by two or more of the plurality of users;

receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an indication that a first user is traveling to the geographic location; and

transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, the at least one common content item for storage on a client device associated with the first user.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the at least one common content item comprises transmitting the at least one common content item for storage on the client device prior to the first user arriving at the geographic location.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the location-specific content is associated with the geographic location.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the at least one common content item includes web-based content.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the at least one common content item includes client-based content.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the at least one common content item comprises comparing the location-specific content viewed by the two or more of the plurality of users using a content comparison algorithm to identify content items including the same location-specific content.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a particular content item is identified as the at least one common content item if it is determined that a predetermined percentage of the plurality of users viewed the particular content item at the geographic location.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein receiving the indication that the first user is traveling to the geographic location comprises receiving at least one of a search request or a navigation request associated with the geographic location.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein receiving the indication that the first user is traveling to the geographic location comprises receiving position data associated with a current geographic location of the client device.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of users viewed the location-specific content at one or more different times relative to one another.

11. A system for automatically pushing location-specific content to users, the system comprising:

one or more computing devices including one or more processors and associated memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more computing devices to;

identify a geographic location at which a plurality of users have viewed location-specific content on their client devices;

identify at least one common content item associated with the location-specific content viewed by two or more of the plurality of users;

receive an indication that a first user is traveling to the geographic location; and

transmit the at least one common content item for storage on a client device associated with the first user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to transmit the at least one common content item for storage on the client device prior to the first user arriving at the geographic location.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the location-specific content is associated with the geographic location.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one common content item includes at least one of web-based content or client-based content.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to compare the location-specific content viewed by the two or more of the plurality of users using a content comparison algorithm to identify content items including the same location-specific content.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the indication that the first user is traveling to the geographic location corresponds to at least one of a search request or a navigation request associated with the geographic location or corresponds to position data associated with a current geographic location of the client device.

17. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, comprising:

identifying a geographic location at which a plurality of users have viewed location-specific content on their client devices;

identifying at least one common content item associated with the location-specific content viewed by two or more of the plurality of users;

receiving an indication that a first user is traveling to the geographic location; and

transmitting the at least one common content item for storage on a client device associated with the first user.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein transmitting the at least one common content item comprises transmitting the at least one common content item for storage on the client device prior to the first user arriving at the geographic location.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the location-specific content is associated with the geographic location.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein receiving the indication that the first user is traveling to the geographic location comprises receiving at least one of a search request associated with the geographic location, a navigation request associated with the geographic location or position data associated with a current geographic location of the client device.