System and Method for Mobile Device Location Tracking with a Communication Event Trigger in a Wireless Network

• US 20180192242A1
• Filed: 02/28/2018
• Published: 07/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Granted Patent: US 10,547,969 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• 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 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for location tracking. In one embodiment, an apparatus receives a message sent to a user of a mobile device in a wireless network, and a processor determines at least one location parameter. Data is extracted from the message, and initiation of a computing function (e.g., transmission of a communication to the mobile device) is triggered by a match between the location and the data from the message.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A system comprising:

a data repository to store electronic communications sent to a user of a user device, each communication associated with a respective location;

at least one processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising;

communication logic executed by the processor for receiving, over a network, the electronic communications, and for transmitting, over the network, a new communication to the user device;

extraction logic executed by the processor for extracting data from each of the received communications, including a first communication of the received communications;

location logic executed by the processor for determining a location of the user device;

identification logic executed by the processor for identifying the first communication, the identifying based on matching the location of the user device to the respective location of the first communication, and the identifying comprising accessing the data repository; and

generation logic executed by the processor for, in response to identifying the first communication, generating the new communication.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the matching is based on determining that the location of the user device is within a geofence associated with the respective location of the first communication.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the generation logic further accesses first data extracted from the first communication when generating the new communication, the new communication to comprise the first data.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the first communication comprises metadata, and wherein the first data is extracted from the first communication using the metadata.

25. The system of claim 21, wherein transmitting the new communication causes a display in a user interface of the user device.

26. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by at least one processor associated with a computing system, performs a method comprising:

receiving, over a network, electronic communications sent to a user of a user device, each communication associated with a respective location;

extracting data from a first communication of the received communications, the first communication associated with a first location;

storing the extracted data from the first communication in a data repository;

after storing the extracted data, determining a location of the user device;

determining that the location of the user device is within a geofence associated with the first location;

in response to determining that the location of the user device is within the geofence, generating a new communication; and

transmitting, over a network, the new communication to the user device to cause an event on the user device.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein determining that the location of the user device is within the geofence comprises accessing the data repository to obtain location data.

28. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein the method further comprises generating a profile for the user device, the profile comprising data collected from at least one prior communication to the user device.

29. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the event comprises display of data selected at least based on the profile.

30. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein the first communication comprises metadata, and extracting the data from the first communication is performed using the metadata.

31. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein extracting the data from the first communication comprises extracting the data based on prior activity of the user device.

32. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein the method further comprises generating a profile for the user device, the profile comprising data collected from prior network interactions with the user device.

33. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein the method further comprises automatically identifying computing devices of senders that meet relevancy criteria, and wherein transmitting the new communication is subject to a computing device of a sender of the first communication conforming to the relevancy criteria.

34. A method comprising:

receiving communications sent for a user device, each communication associated with a respective location;

extracting data from a first communication of the received communications, the first communication associated with a first location;

determining a location of the user device;

determining that the location of the user device is within a geofence associated with the first location;

in response to determining that the location of the user device is within the geofence, generating a new communication; and

transmitting, over a network, the new communication to the user device, wherein the new communication includes at least a portion of the extracted data.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein transmitting the new communication causes an event to occur on the user device.

36. The method of claim 34, wherein transmitting the new communication causes a notification display on the user device.

37. The method of claim 34, wherein the first communication includes metadata, the metadata to facilitate extracting the data by identifying at least one portion of the first communication to be extracted.

38. The method of claim 34, wherein transmitting the new communication causes the user device to, in response to a user logging into a communication account associated with the first communication, present the extracted data to the user on a display of the user device.

39. The method of claim 34, further comprising storing the extracted data in a data repository.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein storing the extracted data is performed prior to determining the location of the user device.