USE OF MOBILE DEVICES FOR VIEWING AND PUBLISHING LOCATION-BASED USER INFORMATION

• US 20100268717A1
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Geomonkey Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Geomonkey Incorporated
• Inventors: Pilskalns, Orest
• Application Number:
  US12/762,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20100268717A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/754
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The present application relates to the use of mobile devices for viewing and publishing location-based user information. One example allows a user of a mobile device to access content associated with a virtual version of an entity that exists at a physical location regardless of a location of the mobile device. This example enables the user to submit content to the virtual version when the mobile device is proximate the physical location.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, perform acts comprising:

determining a particular location at which a mobile device is located;

associating the particular location with a virtual version of a business located proximate to the particular location; and

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providing one or more location-specific items from the virtual version for viewing by a user of the mobile device.

2. The computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the associating comprises associating the particular location with multiple businesses that are proximate to the particular location and allowing the user to select an individual business of the multiple businesses from which to view the location-specific items.

3. The computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the particular location is on property controlled by the business.

4. The computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein at least some of the location-specific items are submitted by the user or other users from the business.

5. The computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the location-specific items can only be submitted to the virtual version by the user or other users from the business.

6. A server computing device that includes the computer-readable media of claim 1.

7. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, perform acts comprising:

determining a particular location at which a mobile device is located;

capturing, at the particular location, digital content created by a user of the mobile device; and

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transmitting the captured digital content and the determined particular location for publishing at a virtual version of the particular location.

8. The computer-readable media of claim 7, wherein the captured digital content is a unit of text, a photograph, audio file, video file, or other item.

9. The computer-readable media of claim 7, wherein the publishing comprises publishing to an annotated digital interface, a mobile interface, a digital map, a web page or other users who frequent the particular location.

10. A system comprising the computer-readable media of claim 7.

11. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, performs acts comprising:

determining a particular location at which a mobile device is located;

creating a query relating to the particular location; and

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using the query to locate and view virtual businesses and related virtual walls proximate the particular location.

12. The computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the query is filterable based on at least one parameter.

13. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the at least one parameter is time.

14. A system comprising the computer-readable media of claim 11.

15. A server computing device comprising the computer-readable media of claim 11.

16. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processor, performs acts comprising:

allowing a user of a mobile device to access content associated with a virtual version of an entity that exists at a physical location regardless of a location of the mobile device; and

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enabling the user to submit content to the virtual version when the mobile device is proximate the physical location.

17. The computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the virtual version comprises a virtual wall.

18. The computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein in an instance where the entity exists at multiple physical locations then the allowing comprises allowing the user to select to access the virtual version associated with an individual physical location.

19. A server computing device comprising the computer-readable media of claim 16.

20. A system comprising the computer-readable media of claim 16.