Registration mapping toolkit for geofences

• US 9,906,905 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2016
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GeoFrenzy, Inc
• Original Assignee: GeoFrenzy, Inc
• Inventors: Jones, Benjamin T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Hitesh
• Application Number:
  US15/204,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20160359799A1
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/006 in accordance with predefined flight zones, e.g. to avoid prohibited zones
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0069 specially adapted for an unmanned aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/659 Internet protocol version 6 [IPv6] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/457 containing identifiers of data entities on a computer, e.g. file names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/084 using delegated authorisation, e.g. open authorisation [OAuth] protocol
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/003 locating network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

Systems and methods for creating a database of geofences and registering geofences, with each geofence in the database being associated with an IP address, preferably an IPV6 address. Each geofence is defined using at least one geographic designator, preferably real property boundaries. Entitlements can be associated with geofences relating to permissive and prohibitive activities within the geofences.

Claims

1. A method for looking up at least one geofence, comprising:

a mobile device determining at least one geographic location;

identifying the at least one geofence in a database associated with the at least one geographic location,

wherein the at least one geofence is defined by an anchor Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address associated with a unique IPv6 address;

wherein the anchor IPv6 address includes between 0 bits and 63 bits for location data and at least 64 bits for metadata, wherein the metadata includes classes, entitlements, and lookup table identifiers, wherein the at least 64 bits for the metadata are operable to be redefined via the lookup table identifiers;

wherein the at least one geographic location is a current location of the mobile device and wherein the step of identifying the at least one geofence in the database associated with the at least one geographic location is automatically performed by the mobile device in near real-time upon the mobile device coming within a predetermined physical proximity of the at least one geographic location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the mobile device automatically requesting access to an Internet connection associated with the at least one geofence.

3. A system for looking up at least one geofence comprising:

a server including at least one processor and a geofence database including at least one geofence defined by a plurality of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses; and

at least one mobile device communicating over at least one network to the server;

wherein the at least one mobile device is operable to determine an anchor IPv6 address of the at least one geofence based on the one of the plurality of IPv6 addresses and determine from the anchor IPv6 address a polygon defined by the plurality of IPv6 addresses defining the at least one geofence;

wherein the at least one mobile device is further operable to convert the plurality of IPv6 addresses to coordinate points of a geographic location;

wherein the anchor IPv6 address includes between 0 bits and 63 bits for location data and at least 64 bits for metadata, wherein the metadata includes classes, entitlements, and lookup table identifiers, wherein the at least 64 bits for the metadata are operable to be redefined via the lookup table identifiers.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the geofence database is a network of records in Domain Name Service (DNS).

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one mobile device is operable to determine the location of the at least one mobile device within the at least one geofence on a micron level based on the plurality of IPv6 addresses.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein at least one of the classes determines a precedence of the at least one geofence in relation to another geofence.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one mobile device is further operable to submit a query to select at least one class from the classes and determine one of the entitlements associated with the at least one class.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one geofence is a mobile geofence, wherein the polygon is around at least one mobile object, and wherein the at least one mobile object is a vehicle, a plane, or a boat.

9. A method for looking up a geofence in a geofence database comprising:

determining a geographic location; and

identifying a geofence associated with the geographic location in the geofence database,

wherein a plurality of boundaries of the geofence include a plurality of geographic designators;

wherein each of the plurality of geographic designators is assigned a unique Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address, such that there are a plurality of unique IPv6 addresses;

wherein at least one of the plurality of unique IPv6 addresses assigned to the plurality of geographic designators is encoded as at least one anchor point of the geofence having an anchor IPv6 address, wherein the at least one anchor point of the geofence is a unique identifier of the geofence; and

wherein the anchor IPv6 address includes between 0 bits and 63 bits for location data and at least 64 bits for metadata, wherein the metadata includes classes, entitlements, and lookup table identifiers, and wherein the at least 64 bits for the metadata are operable to be redefined via the lookup table identifiers.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the geographic location is a current location of at least one device, wherein the step of identifying the geofence associated with the geographic location in the geofence database is automatically performed by the at least one device in near real-time upon the at least one device coming within a predetermined physical proximity of the geographic location, further comprising the at least one device automatically requesting access to an Internet connection associated with the geofence.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising

verifying the metadata in the geofence database, the metadata including the plurality of boundaries of the geofence, the plurality of unique IPv6 address assigned to the plurality of geographic designators, contact information associated with the geofence, an owner associated with the geofence, a plurality of licensees of the geofence, and combinations thereof.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the classes determine a precedence of the geofence in relation to an overlapping geofence which is defined using at least one of the plurality of geographic designators defining the geofence.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising disabling a mobile device for texting and for website browsing within the geofence based on the entitlements.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the geofence is three dimensional.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the geographic location is a current location of a device, wherein the step of identifying the geofence associated with the geographic location in the geofence database is automatically performed by the device in near real-time upon the device coming within a predetermined physical proximity of the geographic location, further comprising the device automatically requesting access to an Internet connection associated with the geofence.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the geofence database is a network of records in Domain Name Service (DNS).