SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION TRACKING WITH A COMMUNICATION EVENT TRIGGER IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

• US 20170164145A1
• Filed: 12/04/2015
• Published: 06/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chen, Victor, Lipman, Sol, Robinson, David, Bonforte, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 9,924,309 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for location tracking. In one embodiment, an apparatus receives a message sent to a user of a mobile device in a wireless network, and a processor determines at least one location parameter. Data is extracted from the message, and initiation of a computing function (e.g., transmission of a communication to the mobile device) is triggered by a match between the location and the data from the message.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

receiving, over a network, electronic communications sent to a user, each communication associated with a respective location;

storing the received communications in a data repository;

determining, by at least one processor, a location of a user device of the user;

identifying, by the least one processor, a first communication of the received communications, the identifying based on matching the location of the user device to the respective location of the first communication;

in response to the identifying, generating, by the least one processor, a new communication; and

transmitting, over a network, by the least one processor, the new communication to cause a display in a user interface of the user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the matching is based on determining that the location of the user device is within a geofence associated with the respective location of the first communication.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the display comprises at least a portion of the first communication.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting data from each of the received communications, including the first communication;

storing the data in a data repository; and

accessing data from the data repository for the first communication, the display to include the accessed data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first communication comprises metadata, and the extracting data from the first communication is performed using the metadata.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the extracting data comprises extracting data from the first communication based on prior activity of the user device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating an expiration with the first communication, wherein the transmitting the new communication is subject to determining a status of the expiration.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving parameters from the user device, wherein the identifying is controlled by the parameters.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a profile for the user device, the profile comprising data collected from prior network interactions with the user device, wherein the display comprises information selected based on the profile.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a profile from the user interface, wherein the generating the new communication is subject to the profile.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically identifying computing devices of senders that meet relevancy criteria, wherein the transmitting the new communication is subject to a computing device of a sender of the first communication conforming to the relevancy criteria.

12. A system comprising:

a data repository to store electronic communications sent to a user of a user device, each communication associated with a respective location;

at least one processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising;

communication logic executed by the processor for receiving, over a network, the electronic communications, and for transmitting, over the network, a new communication to cause a display in a user interface of the user device;

location logic executed by the processor for determining a location of the user device;

identification logic executed by the processor for identifying a first communication of the received communications, the identifying based on matching the location of the user device to the respective location of the first communication, and the identifying comprising accessing the data repository; and

generation logic executed by the processor for, in response to the identifying, generating the new communication.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the matching is based on determining that the location of the user device is within a geofence associated with the respective location of the first communication.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the program logic further comprises extraction logic to extract data from each of the received communications, including the first communication, and wherein the generation logic further accesses the data extracted from the first communication when generating the new communication, the new communication to comprise the data extracted from the first communication.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the first communication comprises metadata, and the data is extracted from the first communication using the metadata.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by at least one processor associated with a computing system, performs a method comprising:

receiving, over a network, electronic communications sent to a user of a user device, each communication associated with a respective location;

storing the received communications in a data repository;

determining a location of the user device;

identifying a first communication of the received communications, the identifying based on matching the location of the user device to the respective location of the first communication, and the identifying comprising accessing the data repository to obtain location data;

in response to the identifying, generating a new communication; and

transmitting, over a network, the new communication to the user device to cause an event on the user device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the matching is based on determining that the location of the user device is within a geofence associated with the respective location of the first communication.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises extracting data from each of the received communications, including the first communication, and including the data extracted from the first communication in the new communication that is generated.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the event is display of at least a portion of the first communication.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the extracting data comprises extracting data from the first communication based on prior activity of the user device, and the method further comprising generating a profile for the user device, the profile comprising data collected from at least one prior communication with the user device, wherein the event comprises display of data selected at least based on the profile.