Systems and methods for creating user-managed online pages (MAPpages) linked to locations on an interactive digital map

• US 9,654,549 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2015
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Somchai Akkarawittayapoom
• Original Assignee: Somchai Akkarawittayapoom
• Inventors: Akkarawittayapoom, Somchai
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mrabi, Hassan
• Application Number:
  US14/855,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20160344801A1
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 715255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Systems and methods are used to enable creating, searching, and managing user-managed online pages (e.g., MAPpages) linked to locations on an interactive digital map. In one aspect, the method includes, at a server system: receiving, from a client, a request to create a new MAPpage; prompting the client to select a type for the new MAPpage; prompting the client to select a template for the new MAPpage; providing the template to the client for inputting one or more content elements for the new MAPpage; receiving, from the client, the one or more content elements for the new MAPpage; prompting the client to identify a physical location associated with the new MAPpage; prompting the client to identify contact information associated with the new MAPpage; creating the new MAPpage, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with the identified physical location, the identified contact information, the client, the type, and a timestamp.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

at a server system;

receiving, from a client, a request to create a new MAPpage;

prompting the client to select a first type for the new MAPpage from a plurality of preexisting types, wherein the plurality of preexisting types comprises a single listing page, a multi-listing page, a user profile page, a resume page, a company profile page, and a promotion page;

in response to receiving a first selection of the first type for the new MAPpage, prompting the client to select a template for the new MAPpage from a plurality of preexisting templates of the selected first type;

in response to receiving a second selection of the template for the new MAPpage, providing the template to the client for inputting one or more content elements for the new MAPpage;

receiving, from the client, the one or more content elements for the new MAPpage;

prompting the client to identify a first physical location;

prompting the client to identify contact information associated with the new MAPpage;

creating the new MAPpage, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with the identified first physical location, the identified contact information, the client, the first type, and a timestamp, and wherein an existing MAPpage associated with the client is associated with a second type, distinct from the first type, and wherein creating the new MAPpage includes uploading the new MAPpage to a platform containing MAPpages uploaded directly from content creators;

indexing the new MAPpage to the first physical location on an interactive digital map, wherein the first physical location acts as a default address of the MAPpage, wherein the default address is further editable by the client, and wherein the MAPpage is not associated with a domain name on the World Wide Web (WWW); and

for each MAPpage associated with the client, enabling the client to associate the respective MAPpage with one or more physical locations, the one or more physical locations including the first physical location, and/or one or more sets of contact information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein an association is formed with any combination of one or more MAPpages associated with the client, one or more physical locations associated with the client, and zero or more sets of contact information associated with the client.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with one or more physical locations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with zero or more sets of contact information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein two or more MAPpages associated with the client are associated with a single physical location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein two or more MAPpages associated with the client are associated with a single set of contact information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein prompting the client to identify the first physical location associated with the new MAPpage includes prompting the client to identify a new location or to select a previously identified location.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein prompting the client to identify contact information associated with the new MAPpage includes prompting the client to identify new contact information or to select previously identified contact information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein content of the new MAPpage and the existing MAPpage associated with the client is managed by the client.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein for each MAPpage associated with the client, privacy of a respective MAPpage is uniquely adjusted by the client.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact information includes public contact information and private contact information.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with one or more existing MAPpages associated with the client.

13. The method of claim 1, including:

at the server system;

receiving, from the client, a new MAPpage template; and

in response to receiving the new MAPpage template from the client, providing the new MAPpage template as a selection option for users other than the client.

14. The method of claim 1, including:

at the server system;

receiving, from a second client, a search request for MAPpages in the platform;

receiving, from the second client, a location parameter for the search request;

receiving, from the second client, at a different time than receiving the location parameter for the search request, a search parameter, distinct from the location parameter, for the search request;

executing the search request concurrently with the location parameter and the search parameter;

identifying one or more candidate MAPpages that meet the location parameter and the search parameter; and

returning, to the second client, at least one of the candidate MAPpages in response to the search request.

15. The method of claim 14, including:

at the server system;

prior to receiving, from the second client, the location parameter for the search request, providing, to the second client, a range for the location parameter for the search request.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the range is modified by the second client.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein providing the range for the location parameter for the search request includes providing a map from which to indicate the location parameter.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the location parameter for the search request is indicated by the second client selecting an area of interest on the map.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the second client and the client are the same user.

20. The method of claim 14, including:

at the server system;

in response to the search request, returning, to the second client, the at least one of the candidate MAPpages and one or more search results from a web crawler, wherein the candidate MAPpages are distinguished from the search results from the web crawler.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the one or more search results from the web crawler satisfy the location parameter.

22. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

parsing a received search request using the interactive digital map, wherein the search request includes location information and a designation of a category, from a predetermined set of categories, and wherein the new MAPpage is provided responsive to the search request when (i) the location information in the search request is proximate to the first physical location on the interactive digital map and (ii) the category in the search request is the same category as the new MAPpage, wherein the predetermined set of categories comprises property, automotive, goods, services and jobs.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein further editing by the client of the default address of the MAPpage includes adding an additional physical location associated with the MAPpage.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein further editing by the client of the default address of the MAPpage includes changing the default address of the MAPpage from the first physical location to a different physical location.

25. A server system comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the server system to:

receive, from a client, a request to create a new MAPpage;

prompt the client to select a first type for the new MAPpage from a plurality of preexisting types, wherein the plurality of preexisting types comprises a single listing page, a multi-listing page, a user profile page, a resume page, a company profile page, and a promotion page;

in response to receiving a first selection of the first type for the new MAPpage, prompt the client to select a template for the new MAPpage from a plurality of preexisting templates of the selected first type;

in response to receiving a second selection of the template for the new MAPpage, provide the template to the client for inputting one or more content elements for the new MAPpage;

receive, from the client, the one or more content elements for the new MAPpage;

prompt the client to identify a first physical location;

prompt the client to identify contact information associated with the new MAPpage;

create the new MAPpage, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with the identified first physical location, the identified contact information, the client, the first type, and a timestamp, and wherein an existing MAPpage associated with the client is associated with a second type, distinct from the first type, and wherein creating the new MAPpage includes uploading the new MAPpage to a platform containing MAPpages uploaded directly from content creators;

index the new MAPpage to the first physical location on an interactive digital map, wherein the first physical location acts as a default address of the MAPpage, wherein the default address is further editable by the client, and wherein the MAPpage is not associated with a domain name on the World Wide Web (WWW); and

for each MAPpage associated with the client, enable the client to associate the respective MAPpage with one or more physical locations, the one or more physical locations including the first physical location, and/or one or more sets of contact information.

26. The server system of claim 25, wherein the instructions further cause the server system to:

parse a received search request using the interactive digital map, wherein the search request includes location information and a designation of a category, from a predetermined set of categories, and wherein the new MAPpage is provided responsive to the search request when (i) the location information in the search request is proximate to the first physical location on the interactive digital map and (ii) the category in the search request is the same category as the new MAPpage, wherein the predetermined set of categories comprises property, automotive, goods, services and jobs.

27. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions that, when executed by a server system, cause the server system to:

receive, from a client, a request to create a new MAPpage;

prompt the client to select a first type for the new MAPpage from a plurality of preexisting types, wherein the plurality of preexisting types comprises a single listing page, a multi-listing page, a user profile page, a resume page, a company profile page, and a promotion page;

in response to receiving a first selection of the first type for the new MAPpage, prompt the client to select a template for the new MAPpage from a plurality of preexisting templates of the selected first type;

in response to receiving a second selection of the template for the new MAPpage, provide the template to the client for inputting one or more content elements for the new MAPpage;

receive, from the client, the one or more content elements for the new MAPpage;

prompt the client to identify a first physical location;

prompt the client to identify contact information associated with the new MAPpage;

create the new MAPpage, wherein the new MAPpage is associated with the identified first physical location, the identified contact information, the client, the first type, and a timestamp, and wherein an existing MAPpage associated with the client is associated with a second type, distinct from the first type, and wherein creating the new MAPpage includes uploading the new MAPpage to a platform containing MAPpages uploaded directly from content creators;

index the new MAPpage to the first physical location on an interactive digital map, wherein the first physical location acts as a default address of the MAPpage, wherein the default address is further editable by the client, and wherein the MAPpage is not associated with a domain name on the World Wide Web (WWW); and

for each MAPpage associated with the client, enable the client to associate the respective MAPpage with one or more physical locations, the one or more physical locations including the first physical location, and/or one or more sets of contact information.

28. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 27, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions that, when executed by the server system, cause the server system to:

parse a received search request using the interactive digital map, wherein the search request includes location information and a designation of a category, from a predetermined set of categories, and wherein the new MAPpage is provided responsive to the search request when (i) the location information in the search request is proximate to the first physical location on the interactive digital map and (ii) the category in the search request is the same category as the new MAPpage, wherein the predetermined set of categories comprises property, automotive, goods, services and jobs.