Method for capturing and serving content based on user location

• US 9,380,422 B1
• Filed: 01/15/2015
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sakihama, Dean, Rasmussen, Matthew T., Porudominsky, Harry, Pair, Jackson Jarrell
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, Ashish K
• Application Number:
  US14/598,046
• Time in Patent Office: 530 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A mobile device includes a location module that determines a location of the mobile device. A controller receives the location of the mobile device as determined by the location module, compares the location of the mobile device to a plurality of stored locations, and provides a notification to a user of the mobile device in response to a determination that the location of the mobile device is within a predetermined range of a first stored location of the plurality of stored locations. The plurality of stored locations correspond to contact devices associated with respective content, and the notification includes information about the respective content associated with a first contact device of the contact devices in the first stored location.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

a location module that determines a location of the mobile device; and

a controller that receives the location of the mobile device as determined by the location module, compares the location of the mobile device to a plurality of stored locations, and provides a notification to a user of the mobile device in response to a determination that the location of the mobile device is within a predetermined range of a first stored location of the plurality of stored locations, wherein the plurality of stored locations correspond to contact devices associated with respective content, wherein the notification includes information about the respective content associated with a first contact device of the contact devices in the first stored location, wherein the controller stores a plurality of identifiers in a memory, each of the identifiers associating one of the plurality of stored locations with the respective content associated with one of the contact devices, wherein the controller receives input from the user accepting or rejecting the notification, and wherein, in response to the user accepting or rejecting the notification, the controller updates a first identifier of the plurality of identifiers corresponding to the first location.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the location module corresponds to a global positioning system module.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined range corresponds to a geo-fence surrounding the first stored location.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein, in response to the user rejecting the notification, the controller clears the notification from a display of the mobile device.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein, in response to the user accepting the notification, the controller provides information associated with the respective content, wherein the information associated with the respective content is accessible to the user at the mobile device.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the controller performs at least one function of the mobile device based on the first identifier.

7. The mobile device of claim 1 wherein the controller updates data associated with the first identifier in response to the user accepting or rejecting the notification.

8. A method of operating a mobile device, the method comprising:

determining a location of the mobile device;

comparing the location of the mobile device to a plurality of stored locations;

providing a notification to a user of the mobile device in response to a determination that the location of the mobile device is within a predetermined range of a first stored location of the plurality of stored locations, wherein the plurality of stored locations correspond to contact devices associated with respective content, and wherein the notification includes information about the respective content associated with a first contact device of the contact devices in the first stored location;

storing a plurality of identifiers in a memory, each of the identifiers associating one of the plurality of stored locations with the respective content associated with one of the contact devices;

receiving input from the user accepting or rejecting the notification; and

in response to the user accepting or rejecting the notification, updating a first identifier of the plurality of identifiers.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining a location of the mobile device includes using a global positioning system.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the predetermined range corresponds to a geo-fence surrounding the first stored location.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising, in response to the user rejecting the notification, clearing the notification from a display of the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising, in response to the user accepting the notification, providing information associated with the respective content, wherein the information associated with the respective content is accessible to the user at the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising performing at least one function of the mobile device based on the first identifier.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising updating data associated with the first identifier in response to the user accepting or rejecting the notification.