# US 2014/0195350 A1 · White page and yellow page directories in a geo-spatial environment

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- Number: US 2014/0195350 A1
- Document ID: US20140195350A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/207,683
- Filed: 2014-03-13
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Earliest claimed: 2007-03-29
- Inventors: Raj Abhyanker
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140195350A1

## CPC

- G06Q 30/0261: {based on user location}
- G06Q 30/02: Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
- 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

## Abstract

A method, apparatus and system of white page and yellow page directories in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes geocoding an address data associated with a listing of a directory on a map and publishing an inventory of a user associated with the listing to market to other users and residents a threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing. The method may include generating a set of coupons of a business associated with the listing as the inventory, and providing the set of coupons to the other users and residents the threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing. The method may also include adjusting the threshold distance away based on a request of the user associated with the listing.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for providing users a geo-spatial directory comprising:
geo-coding an address data associated with a listing of a directory on a map;
publishing an inventory of a user associated with the listing to market via a computer network interface device to other users and residents a threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing;
generating a neighborhood view in the map that simultaneously displays the address data, a pushpin representing the location of the specific listing, and the listing data as a profile above an aerial imagery of a neighborhood encompassing the address data along with neighboring profiles associated with adjacent address data and adjacent listing data to the profile;
providing a wiki interface to each of the profiles in the neighborhood view such that each profile is editable by the user; and
providing the user ability to relocate the position of the pushpin on the map within the wiki interface.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a set of coupons of a business associated with the listing as the inventory, and providing the set of coupons to the other users and residents the threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2 further comprising adjusting the threshold distance away based on a request of the user associated with the listing.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising generating an excess inventory of a residential household as the inventory, and providing access to published ones of the excess inventory to the other users and residents the threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 wherein the directory is at least one of a people directory, a business directory, a telephone directory, a yellow page directory, a white page directory, and an address directory.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method claim 1 further comprising generating directions between a user of the geo-spatial directory and the listing wherein the directions are at least one of a walking directions, a driving directions, a commuting directions, a subway route and timing directions, a bus route and timing directions, a train route and timing directions, and a plane route and timing directions.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The method of claim 6 wherein a legitimate entity is at least one of a business user and a residential user whose information is represented in the profile.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising communicating between the user and the residents through a direct mail builder application that generates a postal mailer deliverable to the residents upon a request of the user.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8 further comprising forming a group mailer through an aggregation of numerous postal mailers that are simultaneously sent through a common postage such that the group mailer includes messages of a plurality of users associated with different listings, and wherein the group mailer is at least one of a coupon book, a specials guide, a community publication, a political mailer, and an advertisement.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically scanning the directory and performing an optical character recognition methodology on the directory using a directory scanner which automatically decouples pages of a printed one of the directory and scans the directory into a geo-spatial database.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising geo-coding a contact data associated with each listing such that users across different neighborhoods, cities, regions, countries, and continents telephone each other through a single click in a geo-spatial social network embodying a plurality of the listings.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising providing an interface such that any visitor to a geo-spatial directory automatically updates the address data and the listing through a wiki interface, and such that any visitor to the geo-spatial directory contributes content to the listing in the form of a photographic tag, a textual tag, and a video tag associated with the listing.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12 further comprising enabling the user to contribute interesting data for submission in a landing page associated with users of a geo-spatial social network embodying each listing of the directory in the map.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1.

### Claim 15 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2 wherein said set of coupons is searchable by the user.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising a landing module to generate a home page of a neighbor who logs into the geo-spatial directory to learn about and explore new and changing events in their neighborhood, wherein the new and changing events are at least one of new people in a neighborhood, users who have viewed a profile of the neighbor, and changing business profiles and special offers in the neighborhood.