# US 2022/0284396 A1 · System and method for providing information matching a user's stated preferences

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- Number: US 2022/0284396 A1
- Document ID: US20220284396A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/702,843
- Filed: 2022-03-24
- Published: 2022-09-08
- Earliest claimed: 2002-06-27
- Assignees: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
- Applicants: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
- Inventors: James V. BRADY, JR.; Dana M. SOHR
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20220284396A1

## CPC

- G06Q 10/10: Office automation; Time management
- G01C 21/20: Instruments for performing navigational calculations (G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence)
- G01C 21/32: Structuring or formatting of map data
- G01C 21/3679: {Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities (G01C21/3611 takes precedence)}
- G06F 16/9535: Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
- G06F 16/9537: Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
- G06Q 30/00: Commerce
- G06Q 30/02: Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
- G08G 1/0962: having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
- G08G 1/096838: {where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality}
- G08G 1/0969: having a display in the form of a map
- G08G 1/20: {Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles}
- G08G 1/207: {with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries}
- G09F 27/00: Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
- H04L 67/306: User profiles
- H04L 67/52: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
- H04L 67/535: {Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34)}
- H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information
- H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
- H04W 4/023: {using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds}
- H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services
- H04W 4/21: for social networking applications
- G01C 21/3682: {output of POI information on a road map (G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence)}
- 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
- G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93})
- G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A location-based and preference-based system and method for matching media content about persons, places and things with the expressed preferences of mobile users to notify users about and provide users with access to media content about persons, places and things that match the user's expressed preferences. The system thus provides information such as stories or articles that match the user's interests and relate to their location. The system may assign ranks to all of the media content that meets that user's preferences wherein, in one embodiment, it will automatically play them in the assigned order. Comparison of the user's preferences with the various profiles of the media content allows the user only to be informed of the media content for those persons, places or things that the user is likely to be interested in. The system and method thus provides for a mobile real-time point of interest exchange network.

## Claims

### Claim at position 1

-22. (canceled)

### Claim 23

A method of using a wireless mobile device to obtain information about goods, services and/or places of interest, the method comprising:
enabling a user of the wireless mobile device to enter a profile reflecting one or more of the user's preferences regarding goods, services and/or places of interest, including a geolocation criterion;
transmitting the profile to a server;
transmitting geographic location information of the wireless mobile device to the server; receiving from the server information about at least one good, service and/or place of interest meeting the user's preferences, including the geolocation criterion, wherein the information about the at least one good, service and/or place of interest includes at least one review or rating of the at least one good, service and/or place of interest; and
displaying the information about the at least one good, service and/or place of interest on a display of the wireless mobile device.

### Claim 24 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 wherein the received information is based on the user profile, the wireless mobile device location and the plurality of merchant profiles.

### Claim 25 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 wherein the received information includes video information.

### Claim 26 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 wherein the received information includes audio information.

### Claim 27 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 further comprising updating distance information associated with the at least one good, service and/or place of interest according to the user's movement.

### Claim 28 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 further comprising accepting a user click of a display and presenting additional information relates to the at least one good, service and/or place of interest.

### Claim 29 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 further comprising displaying homes on a map that match preferences of the user with real estate broker information.

### Claim 30 (depends on 23)

The method of claim 23 wherein the displayed information is limited to a specified range from the user's current location.