US 10,757,532 B2Granted

Proximity-based content sharing

AssigneeAircam Inc.

InventorsRyan Rifkin, Evan Rifkin, Steve Lackenby, Alex Pronin, David Hopkins

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Abstract

There is disclosed herein a non-volatile machine-readable medium storing a program, a system and method for enabling proximity-based, peer-to-peer sharing of media in which a first device having a wireless communication surrounding the device detects other wireless devices within the region. Communication connections are formed between the wireless devices and a list of the authenticated connections is maintained. Without input from a user, media is shared between the individual devices on the authenticated connections list and a remote server, subject to permissions pre-set by the individual devices. Devices not included in the list of authenticated connections are blocked from accessing the media. Access to the media is available for a period of time, after which time access to the media is blocked for all devices.

Claims30

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a non-volatile machine-readable medium storing a program having a set of instructions which when executed by a processor will cause the processor to:
(A) store a universal uniform resource locator (URL) consisting of a single, precise URL which provides a one and only address from which a server will accept requests to access media;
(B) communicate with plural upload media devices in respective different physical locations on respective, separate occasions to, with respect to each such communication:
(i) receive media and a media location, the media location being the physical location from which the media was created by a respective upload media device;
(ii) generate a geofence area defined by the media location and a pre-defined area around the media location;
(iii) store in a database the media in conjunction with the geofence area;
and
(C) communicate with plural request devices on respective, separate occasions to, with respect to each such communication:
(i) receive a request for media at the universal URL in a precise form, without any subdomains, extensions or variables, from a given one of the request devices along with a request device location indicating a location of the request device making the request;
and
(ii) compare only the request device location with a geofence areas in the database and, only when the request device location is within one of the geofence areas in the database, provide access to the corresponding media, and otherwise deny access to all of the media in the database.

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A method for enabling proximity-based, peer-to-peer sharing of media comprising:

(A) storing a universal uniform resource locator (URL) consisting of a single, precise URL which provides a one and only address from which a server will accept requests to access media;
(B) communicating with plural upload media devices in respective different physical locations on respective, separate occasions to, with respect to each such communication:
(i) receiving media and a media location, the media location being the physical location from which the media was created by a respective upload media device;
(ii) generating a geofence area defined by the media location and a pre-defined area around the media location;
(iii) storing in a database the media in conjunction with the geofence area;
and
(C) communicating with plural request devices on respective, separate occasions to, with respect to each such communication:
(i) receiving a request for media at the universal URL in a precise form, without any subdomains, extensions or variables, from a given one of the request devices along with a request device location indicating a location of the request device making the request;
and
(ii) comparing only the request device location with a geofence areas in the database and, only when the request device location is within one of the geofence areas in the database, providing access to the corresponding media, and otherwise deny access to all of the media in the database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/391,696Filed 23 Apr 2019 · continuation
Priority: 13 Mar 2015
Published: US 2019/0082290 A115 Aug 2019
Granted: 25 Aug 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 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
G06F 16/587
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using geographical or…
G06F 16/9537
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
G06F 16/955
Retrieval from the web: using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

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