# US 10,880,386 B2 · Method and system for scheduling, indexing, categorizing, and triggering digital content and gifts for future delivery

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- Number: US 10,880,386 B2
- Document ID: US10880386B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/228,080
- Filed: 2018-12-20
- Published: 2019-06-27
- Granted: 2020-12-29
- Earliest claimed: 2017-12-22
- Assignees: CircleIT LLC
- Applicants: CircleIt LLC
- Inventors: Hanan S. Mohammed
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10880386B2

## CPC

- G06Q 10/0631: Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
- G06Q 10/0639: Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
- G06Q 10/0832: Special goods or special handling procedures, e.g. handling of hazardous or fragile goods
- G06Q 10/1097: {using calendar-based scheduling for task assignment}
- G06Q 10/40: Business processes related to social networking or social networking services
- H04L 51/212: using filtering or selective blocking
- H04L 51/214: using selective forwarding
- H04L 67/02: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
- H04L 67/55: Push-based network services
- H04L 67/62: Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
- G06F 3/0486: Drag-and-drop
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

The present method and system is directed generally to a process and system, preferably embodied in an app executable on a personal computing device, wherein a user may generate content and schedule the generated content for future delivery to a designated recipient, living or not living at the time of the scheduling of the delivery. The delivery may be set to occur a known future date, on a future milestone wherein the start date is known or not known, or on the occurrence of a future event of unknown date to the user at the time of delivery scheduling and that may, or may not, occur. The invention relates to an app and web-based system and method that allows users to send digital content and add physical gifts a specified user at a specified time and/or the occurrence of a specified event in the future.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for scheduling automated delivery of digital content to a designated recipient at a designated future point in time, comprising:
providing a system comprising: a cloud-based server having a memory and programmed instructions stored therein, a plurality of computing devices in operative connection and communication with the cloud-based server, each computing device in the plurality comprising a display, a processor and a memory, wherein the computing device is configured to access the memory and programmed instructions stored in the cloud-based server and execute at least some of the programmed instructions; enabling a user to subscribe to the system to become a subscriber, wherein the system comprises other subscribers and wherein the subscribers can execute the programmed instructions using a computing device in the plurality of computing devices;
wherein the subscriber accesses the programmed instructions with a computing device and actuates the accessed programmed instructions to perform:
establishing a circle of some of the other subscribers to the system, wherein the circle is enabled to include both current subscribers and future subscribers who are not yet born but are identified by relationship with the subscriber;
creating and storing digital content at a data library located in the memory of the cloud-based server of the system;
accessing, curating and/or editing the created and stored digital content;
selecting a designated recipient for receiving digital content selected by the subscriber from the created and stored digital content, wherein the designated recipient is selected from the circle and is enabled to be selected from both the current subscribers and future subscribers;
scheduling a delivery date for presenting the stored digital content to the designated recipient, the scheduling comprising:
determining if the subscriber has provided a specific date for the delivery date;
responsive to the subscriber not providing a specific delivery date, automatically scheduling the delivery date by:
selecting, by the subscriber, a future delivery triggering event having a date of occurrence that is unknown to the subscriber at the time that the future delivery triggering event is selected by the subscriber and that is not predictable solely based on another date;
executing a first scraping of available media;
scheduling the delivery date based on a first predicated date of occurrence of the future delivery triggering event based on the first scraping;
executing a subsequent scraping of updated available media after scheduling the first delivery date to refine the first predicted date of occurrence and replace the first delivery date with a different second predicted date of occurrence; scheduling a delivery date for delivery of the selected digital content to the designated recipient based on the second predicted date of occurrence of the future delivery triggering event; and
delivering the selected digital content to the designated recipient on the scheduled delivery date.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning algorithms to analyze data obtained from the scraping steps.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising the subscriber, before the scheduled delivery date, editing one or more of the group consisting of: the selected digital content, the designated recipient, and the selected future delivery event.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising the subscriber connecting the established circle with at least one other circle established by other subscribers.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting physical content for scheduled future delivery to the designated recipient.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising designating the designated recipient as a person that has not yet been conceived or born.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising designating the designated recipient as all the subscribers in the established circle.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising designating the designated recipient as more than one person.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the future delivery triggering event comprises a future event that may not occur.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the subscriber selects a plurality of future delivery triggering events and wherein the selected digital content is different for each one of the plurality of future delivery triggering events.