US 10,382,888 B2Granted

Mobile proximity based messages

AssigneeGroupon, Inc.

InventorsScott Ellis, Devdatta Gangal, Jayesh Joy, Hamish Barney

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Abstract

Techniques for providing proximity based messages are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include one or more servers configured to receive proximity message requests from a consumer device. The requests may include consumer device locations, which may be used by the one or more servers to generate a geofence set. Furthermore, the consumer device location may be used as a basis for selecting notification data relevant to the location. Both the geofence set and the notification data may be sent to the consumer device in a single proximity message response for local notification creation if the notification data can be collected within a maximum response time. The notification data may be provided via a push notification server asynchronously if the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for providing proximity based messages via a network, comprising:

one or more databases;
and
one or more servers configured to:
receive a proximity message request from a consumer device via the network, wherein the proximity message request includes location data defining a consumer device location of the consumer device, wherein the consumer device location is associated with a plurality of proximate locations, each proximate location of the plurality of proximate locations associated with a geofence of a geofence set comprising a plurality of geofences;
in response to receiving the proximity message request:
determine a maximum response time defining a maximum time in which the one or more servers are configured to attempt to collect notification data associated with a first geofence associated with the consumer device location of the proximity message request from one or more databases on behalf of the consumer device;
and
in response to determining that notification data associated with the first geofence can be collected within the maximum response time by querying the one or more databases:
provide a proximity message response to the consumer device via the network, the proximity message response comprising the geofence set and the notification data associated with the first geofence;
and
in response to determining that the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time by querying the one or more databases,
provide the notification data associated with the first geofence to a push notification server configured to generate the notification based on the notification data and asynchronously push the notification to the consumer device.

9 more elements

A method for providing proximity based messages via a network, comprising:

receiving, by one or more servers, a proximity message request from the consumer device via the network, wherein the proximity message request includes location data defining a consumer device location of the consumer device, wherein the consumer device location is associated with a plurality of proximate locations, each proximate location of the plurality of proximate locations associated with a geofence of a geofence set comprising a plurality of geofences;
and
in response to receiving the proximity message request, and by the one or more servers:
in response to determining that notification data defining a notification associated with a first geofence associated with the consumer device location of the proximity message request can be collected within a maximum response time:
providing proximity message response to the consumer device via the network, the proximity message response comprising the geofence set and the notification data associated with the first geofence;
and
in response to determining that the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time:
providing the notification data associated with the first geofence to a push notification server configured to generate the notification based on the notification data and asynchronously push the notification to the consumer device.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/859,871Filed 2 Jan 2018 · continuation
Priority: 24 Jun 2015
Published: US 2018/0288564 A14 Oct 2018
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 4/021
Services making use of location information: services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
H04L 51/222
Monitoring or handling of messages: using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot…
H04L 67/55
Network services: push-based network services
H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…

Family

Application62/184,120Us provisional application · filed 24 Jun 2015
Application15/191,344Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jun 2016
US 2018/0288564 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Oct 2018
US 10,034,129 B1Parent of this continuation
US 10,382,888 B2This patent

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