Systems Methods Circuits and Associated Computer Executable Code for Facilitating Selective Messaging and Multicasting

• US 20160366086A1
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avi Solomon
• Original Assignee: Avi Solomon
• Inventors: Solomon, Avi
• Granted Patent: US 10,205,696 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes

Abstract

Disclosed are systems methods circuits and associated computer executable code for facilitating selective messaging and multicasting, wherein system users are associated with one or more identifiers. And, wherein user messages or multicasts are relayed along with one or more identifiers or filtering conditions to a system server, and the system server relays the messages to users associated with the system server received identifiers or to users satisfying the system server received filtering conditions.

Claims

1. A system for selective messaging, said system comprising:

two or more application running mobile client devices each adapted for;

associating system users with one or more identifiers, and

relaying a first user message and one or more first user selected identifiers to a system server; and

said system server for relaying the message to one or more second users each associated with some or all of the first user selected identifiers.

2. The system according to claim 1 wherein at least some of the identifiers are based on identifiers of participants of an event.

3. The system according to claim 1 wherein at least some of the identifiers are retrieved by said application running mobile client devices from the Internet.

4. The system according to claim 1 wherein at least some of the identifiers are retrieved by said system server from the Internet.

5. The system according to claim 1 wherein at least some of the identifiers are associated with a geo-position.

6. The system according to claim 5 wherein at least some of the geo-position associated identifiers are associated based on the geo-position of said application running mobile client device at or around the time when the identifier was associated with a system user.

7. The system according to claim 5 wherein at least some of the geo-position associated identifiers are associated based on the category of the geo-position associated identifier, as selected by said application running mobile client device user at or around the time when the identifier was associated with that system user.

8. The system according to claim 7 wherein said system server is further adapted to cluster multiple sets of geo-positions of identifiers pertaining to similar categories into a multi-layer map wherein each layer pertains to geo-positions of a similar category.

9. A system for selective messaging, said system comprising:

two or more application running mobile client devices each adapted for;

associating system users with one or more identifiers and identifier characteristics, and

relaying a first user message and one or more user selected filtering conditions to a system server; and

said system server for relaying the message to one or more second users each having identifier characteristics satisfying some or all of the first user selected filtering conditions.

10. The system according to claim 9 wherein at least some of the identifiers or identifiers characteristics are based on identifiers of participants of an event.

11. The system according to claim 9 wherein at least some of the identifiers or identifiers characteristics are retrieved by said application running mobile client devices from the Internet.

12. The system according to claim 9 wherein at least some of the identifiers or identifiers characteristics are retrieved by said system server from the Internet.

13. The system according to claim 9 wherein at least some of the identifiers or identifiers characteristics are associated with a geo-position.

14. The system according to claim 13 wherein at least some of the geo-position associated identifiers or identifiers characteristics are associated based on the geo-position of said application running mobile client device at or around the time when the identifier was associated with a system user.

15. The system according to claim 13 wherein at least some of the geo-position associated identifiers or identifiers characteristics are associated based on the category of the geo-position associated identifier or identifier characteristics, as selected by said application running mobile client device user at or around the time when the identifier was associated with that system user.

16. The system according to claim 15 wherein said system server is further adapted to cluster multiple sets of geo-positions of identifiers or identifiers characteristics pertaining to similar categories into a multi-layer map wherein each layer pertains to geo-positions of a similar category.

17. A method for selective messaging, said method comprising:

associating system users with one or more identifiers;

relaying a first user message and one or more first user selected identifiers to a system server; and

relaying the message to one or more second users each associated with some or all of the first user selected identifiers.

18. The method according to claim 17 wherein at least some of the identifiers are based on identifiers of participants of an event.

19. The method according to claim 17 wherein at least some of the identifiers are retrieved by the system user from the Internet.

20. The system according to claim 17 wherein at least some of the identifiers are associated with a geo-position based on their identifier selected identifier category or based on the geo-position of the identifier-associating system user, at or around the time when the identifier was associated with that system user.