METHODS CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER EXECUTABLE CODE FOR LOCALIZING AND MESSAGING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20160192131A1
• Filed: 08/27/2015
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wix.com Ltd.
• Original Assignee: LoyalBlocks Ltd. (Wix.com Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gaver, Ido, Kirshenboim, Eran
• Granted Patent: US 9,521,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/003 locating network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and associated computer executable code for detecting the presence of a mobile computing device in a specific area. Included are means for receiving a message from the mobile device including a coarse location indicator, determining that the received coarse location indicator is in proximity with one or more local (e.g. retailer) stations, and causing at least one of the one or more local stations to transmit a mobile device specific poling signal to the device.

Claims

1. A method for localizing a mobile device, comprising:

receiving a message from the mobile device including a coarse location indicator; and

determining whether the received coarse location indicator includes one or more retailer stations, and in the event that one or more retailer stations are present in the cellular coverage area causing at least one of the one or more retailer stations to transmit a mobile device specific poling signal.

2. A method for no-click check-in, comprising:

automatically transmitting a mobile device coarse location indicator to a localization server;

receiving a polling signal from a local communication node initiated by the localization server;

transmitting an acknowledgement of receipt of the polling signal to the local communication node; and

receiving a pushed message associated with the local communication node.

3. A localization server, comprising:

a first database for storing specification locations;

a communication module for receiving a message from a target device including a coarse location indicator and a first unique identifier associated with a first network; and

a controller for comparing the coarse location indicator to the first database and determining if one of the stored specification locations is within the coarse location indicator; and

sending a second unique identifier associated with a second network to a local communication node to initiate scanning for the target device.

4. The localization server according to claim 3, wherein the first network is a CDAN.

5. The localization server according to claim 3, wherein the first and second networks are different.