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Geo-fence based alerts

  • US 9,167,381 B2
  • Filed: 12/19/2013
  • Issued: 10/20/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing geo-fence based alerts in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:

  • maintaining, at the first wireless subscriber device, a geo-fence database containing (i) geo-fence definitions and (ii) an updateable geo-fence to alert mapping that, for each geo-fence definition, designates an assigned alert for playback and is updateable via an over-the-air message received via a transceiver of the first wireless subscriber device;

    determining, by a first wireless subscriber device, a current location of the first wireless subscriber device;

    detecting, by the first wireless subscriber device, a geo-fence trigger comprising determining, as a function of the determined current location and the geo-fence database, that the first wireless subscriber device has either (i) crossed a geo-fence boundary into a first geo-fence defined in the geo-fence database or (ii) is within the first geo-fence and has not yet begun playing back an alert associated with the first geo-fence; and

    responsive to detecting the geo-fence trigger;

    identifying, by the first wireless subscriber device and as a function of the geo-fence to alert mapping, an alert associated with the first geo-fence; and

    beginning playback, by the first wireless subscriber device, of the alert associated with the first geo-fence.

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