SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION, ALERTS, AND/OR COMMENTS TO PARTICIPANTS BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION

• US 20130297726A1
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jingle Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Jingle Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Ross, David, Taylor, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 8,799,361 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for sharing information related to a location also referred to herein as a “spot,” such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on recipient mobile electronic devices proximately located to such location (e.g., spot). Users of the system can create spot alerts in which designated recipients can receive messages, such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on respective recipient mobile electronic devices, when located within a proximity of a defined location (e.g., spot).

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

(a) receiving, at one or more computers from a recipient mobile electronic device, recipient mobile electronic device information comprising information identifying the recipient mobile electronic device, a user of the recipient mobile electronic device, and a location corresponding to the recipient mobile electronic device;

(b) accessing, by the one or more computers, spot alert data corresponding to one or more spot alerts, the spot alert data stored on one or more electronic databases operably connected to the one or more computers, and further comprising with respect to each spot alert (i) respective spot location information, (ii) respective spot range information, (iii) respective spot comment information, (iv) respective spot approved recipient information;

(c) identifying, by the one or more computers, based on at least in part on the received recipient mobile electronic device information, a spot alert from among the spot alert data information, by determining that the recipient mobile electronic device is located within the spot range of the spot location of the spot alert; and

(d) transmitting, by the one or more computers, the respective spot location information, respective spot range information, and respective spot comment information associated with identified spot alert, to the recipient mobile electronic device for storage and potential display on said recipient mobile electronic device when the recipient mobile electronic device determines the location of the mobile electronic device to be within the spot range of the spot location.