Systems and methods for providing location services

• US 10,708,366 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2018
• Issued: 07/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Inventors: Douglas, Lawrence, Clarke, Thomas Christopher, Nally, Deborah
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US16/195,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20190132403A1
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 1/042 Transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0236 Assistance data, e.g. base station almanac
• 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: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed for providing location services. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, disclosed systems and methods may include a beacon registering device for providing location services. The beacon registering device may include a non-transitory memory storing instructions. The beacon registering device may also include one or more processors that execute the stored instructions to perform operations comprising: receiving beacon information, the beacon information comprising connection information for a first beacon; updating at least one beacon entry stored in a database based on the received beacon information, the beacon entry including a beacon location, beacon connection information, and beacon metadata; receiving a beacon request from a user device, the beacon request indicating a user location; selecting beacons based on the beacon entry and the beacon request, the selected beacons including at least the first beacon; providing selected beacon information to the user device for registering the first beacon with the user device, the selected beacon information including the connection information for the first beacon.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising steps performed by a user device for providing location services, the method comprising:

transmitting, from the user device to a beacon registry, a beacon request comprising a detected user location;

receiving, based on the beacon request, beacon information from the beacon registry, the beacon information including comprising communication information for a beacon selected based on confidence ratings of the beacon;

registering the selected beacon using the communication information;

receiving an indication from the registered beacon; and

providing, based on the indication, a first user message to the beacon registry, the first user message comprising a request for location service information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a second user message to at least one of the beacon registry, the registered beacon, a beacon system, or a provider system based on the received indication; and

receiving location services information in response to the second user message.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying, on a display of the user device, the received location services information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication comprises a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of the registered beacon.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a provider trigger request from a provider system, the provider trigger request including comprising a provider trigger criterion and location services information;

determining that the received indication satisfies the provider trigger criterion; and

displaying, on a display of the user device, the location services information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a location of the user device satisfies the provider trigger criterion.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein at least one of a user location history or user metadata associated with the indication satisfies the provider trigger criterion.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein a proximity of the user device to the registered beacon satisfies the provider triggercriterion.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein a UUID of the registered beacon satisfies the provider trigger criterion.

10. A provider system for generating context-sensitive information, the provider system comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing instructions; and

one or more processors that execute the stored instructions to perform operations comprising;

transmitting, from the provider system, a user information request to a beacon registering device, the beacon registering device being configured to store a location history and transaction history, associated with a user device;

receiving, from the beacon registering device, user information determined based on analysis of the user location history and the transaction history; and

transmitting, from the provider system to the user device, location service information based on the user information, the location service information comprising an offer targeted to a user of the user device based on the location history and the transaction history.

11. The provider system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating the offer based at least on the user information.

12. The provider system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting, from the provider system to the beacon registering device, a request for aggregate information;

the aggregate information comprising information aggregated by the beacon registering device from user information in beacon requests received from a plurality of users to determine user demographics for a location; and

receiving the determined user demographics for the location from the beacon registering device.

13. The provider system of claim 10, wherein the user information request is directed towards a specific user of the location system, based on at least one of:

a location history of the specific user, a transaction history of the specific user, or a social media activity of the specific user.

14. The provider system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the specific user as a customer of the provider system based on the user information.

15. The provider system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the specific user as a customer of a competitor of the provider system based on the user information.

16. The provider system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting, from the provider system to the beacon registering device, a trigger request including comprising a provider trigger criterion and location services information;

receiving a trigger from the beacon registering device; and

communicating with the user device in response to the trigger.

17. The provider system of claim 16, wherein a location of the user device satisfies the provider trigger criterion.

18. The provider system of claim 16, wherein at least one of the location history or user metadata associated with the indication satisfies the provider trigger criterion.

19. The provider system of claim 16, wherein a proximity of the user device to the registered beacon satisfies the provider triggercriterion.

20. The provider system of claim 16, wherein a UUID of the registered beacon satisfies the provider trigger criterion.