US 10,757,531 B1Granted

Time-restricted location-based service zone management

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsSergey Parshin, Jon Robert Ducrou, Ryan Hapgood, Qiwei Liu, Raymond Smith, James Michael Sutula, Benjamin Winters

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Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for managing location-based service zones that are active during limited time periods. A notification of a trigger event relating to a location-based time zone can be received. The time the notification is received can be compared to time window that the location-based service zone is active. A notification of the trigger event is sent to a respective provider associated with the location-based service zone when the location-based service zone is active.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, wherein when executed the program causes the at least one computing device to at least:

send a first push notification to a client device in response to determining that a location-based service zone associated with a service provider is active, the location-based service zone being active during a first time period and being inactive during a second time period, and the location-based service zone comprising at least one of a geofence or a beacon;
send one or more location-based service zone parameters of the location-based service zone to the client device in response to receiving a request for the one or more location-based service zone parameters from the client device;
receive a first trigger event notification of a first trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the first trigger event notification being received from the client device;
compare a timestamp associated with receipt of the first trigger event notification with the first time period to determine whether the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred;
send a provider notification to a provider device associated with the location-based service zone in response to determining that the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred, the provider notification notifying the service provider of an occurrence of the first trigger event;
receive a second trigger event notification of a second trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the second trigger event notification being received from the client device;
determine that the location-based service zone is inactive based at least in part on the second time period;
determine to ignore the second trigger event notification based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive, ignoring the second trigger event comprising not notifying the service provider of the second trigger event, and the service provider only being notified of a trigger event occurrence when the location-based service zone is active;
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send a second push notification to the client device to remove monitoring of the location-based service zone based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive based at least in part on the second time period.

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A system, comprising:

at least one computing device;
and
a time-window zone management system executable in the at least one computing device, wherein when executed the time-window zone management system causes the at least one computing device to at least:
send a first push notification to a client device in response to determining that a location-based service zone associated with a service provider is active, the location-based service zone being active during a first time period and being inactive during a second time period, and the location-based service zone comprising at least one of a geofence or a beacon;
send one or more location-based service zone parameters of the location-based service zone to the client device in response to receiving a request for the one or more location-based service zone parameters from the client device;
receive a first trigger event notification of a first trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the first trigger event notification being received from the client device;
compare a timestamp associated with receipt of the first trigger event notification with the first time period to determine whether the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred;
send a provider notification to a provider device associated with the location-based service zone in response to determining that the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred, the provider notification notifying the service provider of an occurrence of the first trigger event;
receive a second trigger event notification of a second trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the second trigger event notification being received from the client device;
determine that the location-based service zone is inactive based at least in part on the second time period;
determine to ignore the second trigger event notification based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive, ignoring the second trigger event comprising not notifying the provider device of the second trigger event, and the service provider only being notified of a trigger event occurrence when the location-based service zone is active;
and
send a second push notification to the client device to remove monitoring of the location-based service zone based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive based at least in part on the second time period.

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A method, comprising:

sending, via at least one computing device, a first push notification to a client device in response to determining that a location-based service zone associated with a service provider is active, the location-based service zone being active during a first time period and being inactive during a second time period, and the location-based service zone comprising at least one of a geofence or a beacon;
sending, via the at least one computing device, one or more location-based service zone parameters of the location-based service zone to the client device in response to receiving a request for the one or more location-based service zone parameters from the client device;
receiving, via the at least one computing device, a first trigger event notification of a first trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the first trigger event notification being received from the client device;
comparing, via the at least one computing device, a timestamp associated with receipt of the first trigger event notification with the first time period to determine whether the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred;
sending, via the at least one computing device, a provider notification to a provider device associated with the location-based service zone in response to determining that the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred, the provider notification notifying the service provider of an occurrence of the first trigger event;
receive a second trigger event notification of a second trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the second trigger event notification being received from the client device;
determining, via the at least one computing device, to ignore the second trigger event notification based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive, ignoring the second trigger event comprising not notifying the service provider of the second trigger event, and the service provider only being notified of a trigger event occurrence when the location-based service zone is active;
determining, via the at least one computing device, that the location-based service zone is inactive based at least in part on the second time period;
and
sending, via the at least one computing device, a second push notification to the client device to remove monitoring of the location-based service zone based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive based at least in part on the second time period.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, wherein when executed the program causes the at least one computing device to at least:

send a first push notification to a client device in response to determining that a location-based service zone associated with a service provider is active, the location-based service zone being active during a first time period and being inactive during a second time period, and the location-based service zone comprising at least one of a geofence or a beacon;
send one or more location-based service zone parameters of the location-based service zone to the client device in response to receiving a request for the one or more location-based service zone parameters from the client device;
receive a first trigger event notification of a first trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the first trigger event notification being received from the client device;
compare a timestamp associated with receipt of the first trigger event notification with the first time period to determine whether the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred;
send a provider notification to a provider device associated with the location-based service zone in response to determining that the location-based service zone was active when the first trigger event occurred, the provider notification notifying the service provider of an occurrence of the first trigger event;
receive a second trigger event notification of a second trigger event associated with the location-based service zone, the second trigger event notification being received from the client device;
determine that the location-based service zone is inactive based at least in part on the second time period;
determine to ignore the second trigger event notification based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive, ignoring the second trigger event comprising not notifying the service provider of the second trigger event, and the service provider only being notified of a trigger event occurrence when the location-based service zone is active;
and
send a second push notification to the client device to remove monitoring of the location-based service zone based at least in part on the location-based service zone being inactive based at least in part on the second time period.

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