Mobile location aware search engine and method of providing content for same

• US 9,122,704 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 09/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Smarter Agent LLC
• Original Assignee: Smarter Agent LLC
• Inventors: Blumberg, Brad W., Blumberg, Eric M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu, Yonel
• Application Number:
  US13/924,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290331A1
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 701/400, 701425-426, 701/428, 340/988, 340/995.1, 340/995.16, 34099524-99525
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/23 for mobile advertising

Abstract

A method includes identifying a geographic position of a wireless device. Data input by a user while the user is located at the geographic position of the wireless device is received. The data is associated with a landmark at the geographic position. The data is provided to a database based on the geographic position. A wireless device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a geographic position of the wireless device to a database. A receiver is configured to receive data input by a user of the wireless device while the user is located at the geographic position of the wireless device. The data is associated with a landmark at the geographic position of the wireless device. The receiver is configured to automatically receive information associated with the landmark from the database.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving at a database a geographic position of a wireless device;

receiving from the wireless device, data input by a user of the wireless device while the user is located at the geographic position of the wireless device, the data including a review associated with a landmark at the geographic position;

associating the data with the landmark; and

storing the data in a memory of the database.

2. The method of claim 1, the wireless device is a first wireless device, the method further comprising:

after the storing the data, receiving a request from a second wireless device for information associated with the landmark; and

providing the data associated with the landmark to the second wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1, the wireless device is a first wireless device, the method further comprising:

after the storing the data, automatically providing to a second wireless device the data associated with the landmark when the second wireless device is at the geographic position.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving a geographic position includes receiving latitude and longitude coordinates associated with the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is associated with a sale of the landmark.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is further associated with an advertisement associated with the landmark.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

based on the receiving the geographic position of the wireless device, automatically sending from the database to the wireless device location-centric information associated with the landmark while the user is located at the geographic position.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from the wireless device a request for information associated with the landmark; and

based on the receiving the request from the wireless device, sending from the database to the wireless device location-centric information associated with the landmark while the user is located at the geographic position.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the landmark is a first landmark from a plurality of landmarks, the method further comprising:

sending to the wireless device an identity for a plurality of landmarks located at the geographic position.

10. A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor, the code comprising code to cause the processor to:

receive at a database a geographic position of a wireless device;

receive from the wireless device, data input by a user of the wireless device while the user is located at the geographic position of the wireless device, the data including a review associated with a landmark at the geographic position;

associate the data with the landmark; and

store the data in a memory of the database.

11. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the wireless device is a first wireless device, further comprising code to:

after the storing the data, receive a request from a second wireless device for information associated with the landmark; and

provide the data associated with the landmark to the second wireless device.

12. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the wireless device is a first wireless device, further comprising code to:

after the storing the data, automatically provide to a second wireless device the data associated with the landmark when the second wireless device is at the geographic position.

13. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the code to receive a geographic position includes code to receive latitude and longitude coordinates associated with the wireless device.

14. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the data is associated with a sale of the landmark.

15. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the data is further associated with an advertisement associated with the landmark.

16. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising code to:

based on the received the geographic position of the wireless device, automatically send from the database to the wireless device location-centric information associated with the landmark while the user is located at the geographic position.

17. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising code to:

receive from the wireless device a request for information associated with the landmark; and

based on the received the request from the wireless device, send from the database to the wireless device location-centric information associated with the landmark while the user is located at the geographic position.

18. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the landmark is a first landmark from a plurality of landmarks, further comprising code to:

send to the wireless device an identity for a plurality of landmarks located at the geographic position.

19. A method, comprising:

receiving at a database a geographic position of a first wireless device;

receiving from the first wireless device, data input by a user of the first wireless device while the user is located at the geographic position of the first wireless device, the data including a review associated with a landmark at the geographic position; and

providing the data to a second device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second device is a wireless device.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

prior to providing the data to the second device, receiving a request from the second device for information associated with the landmark.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the second device is a wireless, the method further comprising:

prior to providing the data to the second device, receiving a geographic position of the second wireless device, the geographic position being the same as the geographic position of the first device, the providing the data to the second device includes automatically providing the data to the second device based on the geographic position of the second device.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the data is associated with a sale of the landmark.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the data is further associated with an advertisement associated with the landmark.

25. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

based on the receiving the geographic position of the wireless device, automatically sending from the database to the first wireless device location-centric information associated with the landmark while the user is located at the geographic position.

26. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving from the wireless device a request for information associated with the landmark; and

based on the receiving the request from the wireless device, sending from the database to the wireless device location-centric information associated with the landmark while the user is located at the geographic position.

27. A method, comprising:

sending to a database from the wireless device, the geographic position of the wireless device;

sending to the database from the wireless device at a first time period, data input by a user of the wireless device while the user is located at the geographic position of the wireless device, the data including a review associated with a landmark at the geographic position; and

receiving the data from the database at the wireless device at a second time period after the first time period.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

prior to sending to the database the geographic position of the wireless device, identifying a geographic position of a wireless device.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the identifying a geographic position includes identifying latitude and longitude coordinates associated with the wireless device.

30. The method of claim 27, wherein the data is associated with a sale of the landmark.

31. The method of claim 27, wherein the data is further associated with an advertisement associated with the landmark.

32. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

based on the identifying, automatically receiving location-centric information associated with the landmark from the database while the user is located at the geographic position.

33. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

prior to receiving the data from the database during the second time period, sending a request to the database for information associated with the landmark.

34. The method of claim 27, wherein the landmark is a first landmark from a plurality of landmarks, the method further comprising:

displaying an identity for a plurality of landmarks located at the geographic position.