Geo-Locate System and Technique

• US 20150234821A1
• Filed: 02/16/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Voicebyte Enterprises Pty., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Voicebyte Enterprises Pty., Ltd.
• Inventors: Fenech, Michael, Fenech, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 9,870,361 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A system and method directed to geo-located audio, image, text and/or video content which may be characterized as content (audio, image, text, and/or video) that is accessed by one or more content consumers when such content consumers (or the associated content consumer devices) are physically located at a given geographic location and/or within a given vicinity (which may be fixed, predefined and/or programmable before or after uploading the content for access by content consumers) of the geographic location.

Claims

1. A method of creating and uploading geo-located content by a content creator on a content creator device, wherein the content includes audio, images, text and/or video and the content creator device is a mobile device, the method comprising:

enabling a geo-locate mode on the content creator device;

generating the geo-located content, after enabling the geo-locate mode, wherein the geo-located content is associated with a geographic location;

determining geo-location data associated with the geo-located content wherein the geo-location data is representative of geographic coordinates of the geographic location; and

uploading the geo-located content and the associated geo-location data of the geographic location to a backend computer, wherein the geo-located content is only accessible to one or more content consumer devices when the one or more content consumer devices are physically located at the geographic location associated with the geo-located content.

2. The method of claim 1 further including:

defining one or more content tags to associate with the geo-located content before generating the geo-located content; and

uploading the one or more content tags with the geo-located content and the associated geo-location data to a backend computer, wherein the geo-located content is only accessible to one or more content consumer devices when (i) the one or more content consumer devices are physically located at the geographic location associated with the geo-located content and (ii) the one or more content tags meet the associated one or more filter settings of the one or more content consumer devices.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the one or more content tags include a period of time tag wherein the period of time tag defines when the geo-located content is available and/or for how long the geo-located content is available.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the one or more content tags include a content consumer tag wherein the content consumer tag defines a particular content consumer.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the one or more content tags include a range tag wherein the range tag defines a vicinity associated with the geographic location and wherein the one or more content tags meet the filter settings of the one or more content consumer devices when the one or more content consumer devices are physically located in the vicinity associated with the geographic location.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein the one or more content tags include (i) a period of time tag wherein the period of time tag defines when the geo-located content is available and/or for how long the geo-located content is available and (ii) a range tag wherein the range tag defines a vicinity associated with the geographic location and wherein the one or more content tags meet the filter settings of the one or more content consumer devices when the one or more content consumer devices are physically located in the vicinity associated with the geographic location.

7. A method of receiving and downloading geo-located content by a content consumer on a content consumer device, wherein the content includes audio, images, text and/or video and the content consumer device is a mobile device, the method comprising:

enabling a geo-locate mode on the content consumer device wherein the geo-locate mode allows the content consumer device to receive geo-located content;

physically locating the content consumer device at a geographic location associated with geo-located content; and

downloading the geo-located content associated with the geographic location to content consumer device only when the content consumer device is physically located at the geographic location associated with the geo-located content.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein downloading the geo-located content associated with the geographic location to content consumer devices further include automatically downloading the geo-located content associated with the geographic location to content consumer device when the content consumer device is physically located at the geographic location associated with the geo-located content.

9. The method of claim 7 further including:

defining one or more content tags to associate with the geo-located content before downloading the geo-located content associated with the geographic location to content consumer device, and

wherein downloading the geo-located content associated with the geographic location to content consumer devices further includes downloading the geo-located content associated with the geographic location to content consumer device only when (i) the content consumer device is physically located at the geographic location associated with the geo-located content and (ii) one or more content tags associated with the geo-located content meet the associated one or more filter settings of the content consumer device.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more content tags include a content consumer tag wherein the content consumer tag defines a particular content consumer.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more content tags include a range tag wherein the range tag defines a vicinity associated with the geographic location and wherein the one or more content tags meet the filter settings of the content consumer device when the content consumer device is physically located in the vicinity associated with the geographic location.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more content tags include a content creator tag wherein the wherein the content creator tag defines a particular content creator.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more content tags include (i) a content creator tag wherein the wherein the content creator tag defines a particular content creator and (ii) a range tag wherein the range tag defines a vicinity associated with the geographic location and wherein the one or more content tags meet the filter settings of the content consumer device when the content consumer device is physically located in the vicinity associated with the geographic location.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more content tags include a direction of travel tag wherein the direction of travel tag defines a direction of travel of the content consumer device.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more content tags include age, gender and language tags.

16. A method of creating and uploading by a content creator on a content creator device and receiving and downloading geo-located content by a content consumer on a content consumer device, wherein the content includes audio, images, text and/or video, and one or more of the content creator device and the content consumer device are mobile devices, the method comprising:

enabling a geo-locate mode on the content creator device;

generating first geo-located content, after enabling the geo-locate mode, wherein the first geo-located content is associated with a first geographic location;

determining geo-location data associated with the first geo-located content wherein the geo-location data is representative of geographic coordinates of the first geographic location;

uploading the first geo-located content and the associated geo-location data of the first geographic location to a backend computer, wherein the first geo-located content is only accessible to one or more content consumer devices when the one or more content consumer devices are physically located at the first geographic location associated with the first geo-located content;

enabling a geo-locate mode on the content consumer device wherein the geo-locate mode allows the content consumer device to receive geo-located content;

physically locating the content consumer device at a second geographic location associated with second geo-located content; and

downloading the second geo-located content associated with the second geographic location to content consumer device only when the content consumer device is physically located at the second geographic location associated with the second geo-located content.