System and method for location based content correlation

• US 7,890,376 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2004
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Barrese, James J., Dan, Pritchett L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Garg; Yogesh C
• Application Number:
  US10/982,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20060099964A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,293 Days
• Field of Search: 705/8, 705/26, 705/27, 705/14, 705/37, 705/7, 705/16, 705/1, 455/456.1, 455/412.1, 455/414.1, 455/41.1, 455/456.3, 340/539.18
• US Class Current: 705/26.9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example hyperlinked content can be received from a user including current geographical position data. The current geographical position data can be extracted from the hyperlinked content. Location or geographically-based content can be selected based on the current geographical position data. The geographical based content can be returned to the user.

Claims

1. A wireless data system, said wireless data system comprising:

a plurality of servers coupled to a wide-area network, said servers having

product offers

with location information;

a wireless device, said wireless device comprising

a wireless receiver and transmitter,

a location unit to render location data,

a display, and

a client program to communicate with the wide-area network using said wireless receiver and transmitter, the client program sending product offer requests including a current location of the wireless device to the plurality of servers;

a requester alert generator forming part of at least one device configured to return at least one response product offer to the wireless device in response to receiving a product offer request from the wireless device, the response product offers being selected from said product offers on the plurality of servers based at least partly on the current location of the wireless device; and

an offerer alert generator form in part of one or more devices, said offerer alert generator configured to send an alert to an offerer associated with said at least one response product offer when the offerer is within a predefined range of the current location of the wireless device.

2. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the location unit is to render the current location as current location coordinates by triangulation of a cellular telephone.

3. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the location unit is a global positioning system (GPS).

4. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the client program pre-selects a price range for the product offer requests, and the response product offers are within the pre-selected price range.

5. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the client program pre-selects a geographically-based product and is alerted when the selected geographically-based product is offered within the pre-selected price range and within a pre-selected geographical zone.

6. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the program client pre-selects a route, and the returned offers arise from offers from offerers along the route.

7. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the client program competes with other client programs in an auction for at least one of goods and services.

8. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 1, said system further comprising:

a processing unit coupled to the display, the processing unit being to process the response product offers returned by the at least one server and render the response product offers on the display, and

a user interface coupled to the processing unit for receiving user input.

9. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 8, wherein the wireless device is included within one of a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a personal computer (PC), a palm computer, and a notebook computer.

10. The wireless data system as set forth in claim 8, wherein the client program is navigated to a location of said offerer.