Location-based communications

• US 8,874,679 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2014
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Forget You Not, Llc
• Original Assignee: Forget You Not, Llc
• Inventors: Shani, Roni, Mansfield, Richard J. W., Shani, Nissim, Shani, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): HIGA, BRENDAN Y
• Application Number:
  US14/231,450
• Publication Number:
  US 20140214991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 211 Days
• Field of Search: 709204-207, 4554561-4563
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4025 where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes generating a communication to be sent from a sender to a recipient who are related to one another by blood or employment; and scheduling delivery of the communication to the recipient based on a future location of the recipient. The content of the communication and the future location of the recipient are determined from an analysis of electronically-accessible resources by or about the sender, the recipient, or both.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

inferring content for a communication to be sent from or on behalf of a sender to a recipient based on a relationship between (a) information indicative of the content and (b) content of publicly available electronically-accessible resources by or about the sender, the recipient, or both;

inferring, from among multiple possible locations, an expected future location of the recipient based on a relationship between (a) one or more location criteria indicative of the multiple possible locations and (b) content of publicly available electronically-accessible resources;

detecting an actual location of a mobile computing device associated with the recipient; and

sending the communication to the recipient when the actual location of the recipient is within a threshold distance of the expected future location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more location criteria include at least one of a characteristic of the expected future location, a characteristic of the sender, and a characteristic of the recipient.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein inferring one of the possible locations as the expected future location comprises automatically analyzing the electronically-accessible resources.

4. The method of claim 1, in which detecting the actual location of the mobile computing device comprises detecting GPS coordinates of the mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising sending the communication to the recipient when the recipient is at or near the expected future location at a particular future time.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising inferring the particular future time based on one or more time criteria indicative of the particular future time.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising generating the communication including at least some of the inferred content.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising generating the communication, wherein generating the communication comprises:

generating a draft communication including at least some of the inferred content;

providing the draft communication to the sender; and

receiving the communication from the sender.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising inferring an identity of the recipient based on a relationship between (a) one or more recipient criteria indicative of the identity of the recipient and (b) content of publicly available electronically-accessible resources.

10. The method of claim 9, in which the one or more recipient criteria include a relationship between the sender and the recipient.

11. The method of claim 10, in which the one or more recipient criteria include a future relationship between the sender and the recipient.

12. The method of claim 10, in which the one or more recipient criteria include a characteristic of the recipient.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for causing a computing system to:

infer content for a communication to be sent from or on behalf of a sender to a recipient based on a relationship between (a) information indicative of the content and (b) content of publicly available electronically-accessible resources by or about the sender, the recipient, or both;

infer, from among multiple possible locations, an expected future location of the recipient based on a relationship between (a) one or more location criteria indicative of the multiple possible locations and (b) content of publicly available electronically-accessible resources;

detect an actual location of a mobile computing device associated with the recipient; and

send the communication to the recipient when the actual location of the recipient is within a threshold distance of the expected future location.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, in which inferring one of the possible locations as the expected future location comprises automatically analyzing the electronically-accessible resources.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, in which detecting the actual location of the mobile computing device comprises detecting GPS coordinates of the mobile computing device.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, in which the instructions cause the computing system to send the communication to the recipient when the recipient is at or near the expected future location at a particular future time.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, in which the instructions cause the computing system to infer the specified future time based on one or more time criteria indicative of the particular future time.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, in which the instructions cause the computing system to generate the communication including at least some of the inferred content.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, in which the instructions cause the computing system to infer an identity of the recipient based on a relationship between (a) one or more recipient criteria indicative of the identity of the recipient and (b) content of publicly available electronically-accessible resources.