Method and system of providing event content sharing by mobile communication devices

• US 7,970,418 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2007
• Issued: 06/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OL Security LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Albert L., Morrison, Stephen D., Zhang, Xi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Danh C
• Application Number:
  US11/849,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20090061835A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.5, 455/456.1, 455/456.6, 455/518, 701/214
• US Class Current: 455/456.5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• 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 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

An approach is disclosed for providing sharing of content relating to an event. Detection of a plurality of mobile communication devices within a predetermined location is performed. An event is identified corresponding to the predetermined location and a current time. The mobile communication devices are notified to enable exchange of content about the event. The content is received from one or more of the mobile communication devices, wherein the content is accessible by the mobile communication devices.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting a plurality of mobile communication devices within a predetermined location;

identifying an event corresponding to the predetermined location and a current time by accessing a third party event database;

notifying the mobile communication devices to enable exchange of content about the event; and

receiving the content from one or more of the mobile communication devices,

wherein the content is accessible by the mobile communication devices.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content includes text, image, audio, video, or a combination thereof.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content is exchanged via a Short Message Service (SMS) protocol or a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) protocol.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving positional information from one of the mobile communication devices to determine location of the event.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content is accessible by a computing device that is separate from the mobile communication devices.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the computing device is configured to run a web-based application to access the content, the computing device receiving an advertisement message that is targeted based on the event.

7. A system comprising:

an event and presence service module configured to detect a plurality of mobile communication devices within a predetermined location, and to identify an event corresponding to the predetermined location and a current time by accessing a third party event database, wherein the event and presence service module is further configured to notify the mobile communication devices to enable exchange of content about the event; and

a content module configured to receive the content from one or more of the mobile communication devices, wherein the content is accessible by the mobile communication devices.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the content includes text, image, audio, video, or a combination thereof.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein the content is exchanged via a Short Message Service (SMS) protocol or a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) protocol.

10. The system according to claim 7, wherein the event and presence service module configured to is further configured to receive positional information from one of the mobile communication devices to determine location of the event.

11. The system according to claim 7, wherein the content is accessible by a computing device that is separate from the mobile communication devices.

12. The system according to claim 11, further comprising:

a website that is configured to provide the content to the computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to run a web-based application to access the content from the website, and receives an advertisement message that is targeted based on the event.