Zone Oriented Applications, Systems and Methods

A zone management system comprising:

• a zone database configured to store zone objects owned by different zone owners, each zone object representative of a zone and having:
• zone context criteria defined according to zone attributes adhering to an attribute space, and
• a plurality of context-based persistent services;
• a device interface configured to communicatively coupled with an electronic device;
• and
• a zone server coupled with the zone database and the device interface, and configured to:
• obtain image data representative of a zone marker and device attributes from the electronic device;
• derive a device context from the device attributes;
• recognize the zone marker from the image data as being associated with an instantiated zone that is instantiated from one of the zone objects;
• select at least one of the context-based persistent services of the instantiated zone as a context selected service and as being contextually relevant to the device context by comparing the device context to the instantiated zone object's context criteria;
• obtain contextual service information from the context selected service;
• and
• configure the electronic device to enable interactions with the contextual service information.