Media and location based social network

• US 9,305,020 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motormouth, LLC
• Original Assignee: Motormouth, LLC
• Inventors: Jacoby, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Susan
• Application Number:
  US13/894,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20130311452A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,057 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

The present invention is directed to recording and providing media files based on a location. Such systems and methods maybe transacted by a client application or a processor in communication with one or more electronic devices. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, methods may include receiving from a first device: a media file; data comprising information identifying a location associated with the media file; storing the media file and data in a database; receiving from a second device information identifying a location of the second device; determining a geographic radius of the second device based upon user selection; determining if one or more media files stored in the database are associated with a location in the geographic radius of the second device; and sending the one or more media files to the second device.

Claims

1. A client application executable on a mobile computing device to provide media and location based social network services, the client application operable to:

receive, from a user, log in information;

receive a geographic radius selected by the user, wherein the geographic radius extends from a location of the user and the mobile computing device and defines a geographic range within which the user desires to receive media files;

determine a current location of the mobile computing device;

determine, based at least in part on the geographic radius and the current location, a current geographic range surrounding the user and the mobile computing device;

responsive to determining that a media file is associated with a location within the current geographic range, receive, from a server database, the media file associated with the location within the current geographic range; and

play, on the mobile computing device, the media file.

2. The client application of claim 1, wherein the current location of the mobile computing device is determined based upon a longitude and latitude of the mobile computing device.

3. The client application of claim 1, wherein the media file associated with the location within the current geographic range comprises audio files.

4. The client application of claim 1, wherein the client application is further configured to:

receive, from the user, an indication of a grouping of submitters from whom the user desires to receive media.

5. The client application of claim 1, wherein the current location of the mobile computing device is periodically determined.

6. The client application of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device is a selected from the group consisting of:

a mobile telephone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a navigation system, a digital music player, and an electronic reader.

7. A method of recording and providing media files based on a location associated with the media files, the method transacted amongst a processor and one or more electronic devices, the method comprising:

receiving, at the processor and from a first electronic device;

a media file; and

data comprising information sufficient to identify a location associated with the media file;

storing, in a database, the media file and the data;

receiving, at the processor and from a second electronic device, information sufficient to identify a location of the second electronic device;

determining, by the processor, a geographic range of the second electronic device based on the location of the second electronic device and a geographic radius, wherein the geographic radius is based upon user selection, and;

responsive to determining that one or more media files stored in the database are associated with a location in the geographic range of the second electronic device, sending, to the second electronic device, the one or more media files stored in the database that are associated with a location in the geographic range of the second electronic device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first electronic device is a selected from the group consisting of:

a mobile telephone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a navigation system, a digital music player, and an electronic reader.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the media file is an audio file.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the data comprising information sufficient to identify a location associated with the media file comprises a longitude and latitude of the location.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein sending the one or more media files stored in the database comprises:

ordering, by the processor, the one or more media files according to criteria; and

sending, to the second electronic device, the one or more media files sequentially.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the criteria comprise geographic proximity to the second electronic device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the processor sends the one or more media files sequentially until a request is received from the second electronic device to stop sending the one or more media files.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein determining a geographic range of the second electronic device based upon a geographic radius comprises:

determining a first geographic location of the second electronic device at a first time;

determining a second geographic location of the second electronic device at a second time;

determining a direction and a rate of speed of the second electronic device; and

modifying the geographic range of the second electronic device based upon the direction and the rate of speed of the second electronic device.

15. The method of claim 7, wherein the processor receives information sufficient to identify a location of the second electronic device periodically.