US 8,799,361 B2Granted

Systems and methods for transmitting information, alerts, and/or comments to participants based on location information

AssigneeJingle Technologies LLC

InventorsDavid Ross, Charles Taylor

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Abstract

The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for sharing information related to a location also referred to herein as a “spot,” such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on recipient mobile electronic devices proximately located to such location (e.g., spot). Users of the system can create spot alerts in which designated recipients can receive messages, such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on respective recipient mobile electronic devices, when located within a proximity of a defined location (e.g., spot).

Claims25

Dependent claims

A mobile electronic device comprising:

one or more processor readable memory;
one or more processors operatively connected to the one or more processor readably memory;
and
one or more communications portals operatively connected to the one or more processors;
the one or more processor readable memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
determining, using the one or more processors, a location of the mobile electronic device, wherein an user of the mobile electronic device being within a network of users;
receiving, by the one or more communications portals, spot alert data associated with one or more spot alerts, the spot alert data comprising geographical range information associated with each of the one or more spot alerts, the spot alert data being configured by one or more users within the network of users;
determining, using the one or more processors, based on the geographical range information, whether the location of the mobile electronic device is within at least one geographical range associated with at least one the spot alerts;
upon a condition that the location of the mobile electronic device is within at least one of the geographical range associated with at least one of the spot alerts, receiving, using the one or more communication portals, the at least spot alert;
and
executing, using the one or more processors, the at least one spot alert.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/828,204Filed 14 Mar 2013 · continuation
Priority: 13 Apr 2011
Published: US 2013/0297726 A17 Nov 2013
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04W 4/21
Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel: for social networking applications
H04L 51/52
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: for…
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/12
Protocols: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in…

Family

Application13/085,841Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Apr 2011
Application13/085,708Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Apr 2011
US 2013/0297726 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Nov 2013
US 8,542,097 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0262276 A1Published application
US 2012/0265841 A1Published application
US 8,751,589 B2Related patent
US 8,799,361 B2This patent

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