Systems and methods for leveraging text messages in a mobile-based crowdsourcing platform
AssigneeCrowdComfort, Inc.
InventorsAbdullah Daoud, B. Eric Graham
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Abstract
The present invention includes a system for providing a mobile-based crowdsourcing platform configured to provide an intuitive and semi-automated means of collecting and managing user-driven data by leveraging text messages. The crowdsourcing platform is configured to leverage a Short Message Service (SMS) communication system for generating and transmitting command text messages to mobile devices of users of the service. The command text messages essentially elicit or otherwise train/educate the user's mobile device to automatically transmit requested data back to the crowdsourcing platform, the requested data including the location or position of the user within a given environment.
Claims17
A system for leveraging text messages in a mobile-based crowdsourcing platform for providing environmental system control and maintenance within an environment, the system comprising:
- a mobile device for user input and interaction;
- and
- a server configured to communicate with and exchange SMS text message data with the mobile device, the server comprising a hardware processor coupled to non-transitory, computer-readable memory containing instructions executable by the processor to cause the server to:
- receive an initial text message from the mobile device, the initial text message comprising user-driven data including active user input associated with user comfort or one or more maintenance issues within a given environment in which the user is located, wherein user comfort comprises a user's rating of their perceived comfort within the given environment and one or more maintenance issues includes a maintenance-related request from the user within the given environment;
- transmit a command text message to the mobile device to cause the mobile device to automatically generate and transmit a response text message to the server, the response text message comprising data associated with a location or position of the mobile device within an environment;
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- correlate the location or position data of the mobile device with the user-driven data by associating the location or position of the mobile device with the user-driven data on a layout of the environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.