SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING ASYNCHRONOUS LOCATION-BASED MESSAGING
First Claim
1. A method of notifying a user of the availability of accessible content associated with one or more geographic locations located proximal to the user'"'"'s location, comprising:
- determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a user;
identifying, based on the determined location and one or more filtering criteria, one or more location-based messages available to the user, wherein a location-based message comprises location identifier data and content associated with the location-identifier data; and
transmitting, for each identified location-based message available to the user, a notification message to the user'"'"'s mobile computing device, wherein a notification message includes information about its corresponding location-based message, as well as a pointer to its corresponding location-based message to enable the user to access the location-based message.
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Abstract
A system and method including asynchronous location-based messaging is provided. Multimedia content may be created and associated with a specific geographic location. Notification messages associated with location-based content may be designated for receipt by particular users, for example, when the users are located within a predetermined distance of the geographic location. The notification messages, which may be transmitted to users'"'"' mobile computing devices, may include information about, as well as a pointer to, the location-based content to enable the content to be accessed immediately or at a later time through any number of interfaces.
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47 Claims
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1. A method of notifying a user of the availability of accessible content associated with one or more geographic locations located proximal to the user'"'"'s location, comprising:
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determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a user;
identifying, based on the determined location and one or more filtering criteria, one or more location-based messages available to the user, wherein a location-based message comprises location identifier data and content associated with the location-identifier data; and
transmitting, for each identified location-based message available to the user, a notification message to the user'"'"'s mobile computing device, wherein a notification message includes information about its corresponding location-based message, as well as a pointer to its corresponding location-based message to enable the user to access the location-based message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A system for notifying a user of the availability of accessible content associated with one or more geographic locations located proximal to the user'"'"'s location, comprising:
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means for determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a user;
means for identifying, based on the determined location and one or more filtering criteria, one or more location-based messages available to the user, wherein a location-based message comprises location identifier data and content associated with the location-identifier data; and
means for transmitting, for each identified location-based message available to the user, a notification message to the user'"'"'s mobile computing device, wherein a notification message includes information about its corresponding location-based message, as well as a pointer to its corresponding location-based message to enable the user to access the location-based message.
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