US 9,288,622 B1Granted

Aggregated geo-fencing area based information delivery

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsBilly W. Chang, Sarbajit K. Rakshit

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Abstract

Aggregated geo-fencing area based information delivery, in one aspect, may include determining a plurality of first geo-fencing areas of a first user based on monitoring or detecting locations of the first user. The locations may be detected via one or more user selected devices, which include location-aware devices such as GPS receiver/transmitter devices. A second user identifier may be received from the first user. One or more second geo-fencing areas of a second user may be determined, for example, similarly to the first geo-fencing areas. Content may be gathered based on aggregated geo-fencing area comprising the plurality of first geo-fencing areas and the one or more second geo-fencing areas. The content associated with the aggregated geo-fencing area may be presented, for example, for collaborative activity among the users.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A system for providing aggregated geo-fencing area based information delivery, comprising:

a processor;
and
a storage device,
the processor operable to determine a plurality of first geo-fencing areas of a first user based on monitoring locations of the first user, information associated with the locations received from one or more user selected devices equipped with one or more global positioning system receiver/transmitter devices,
the processor operable to store information associated with the plurality of first geo-fencing areas in the storage device,
the processor further operable to receive a second user identifier from the first user,
the processor further operable to determine one or more second geo-fencing areas of a second user and store information associated with said one or more second geo-fencing areas in the storage device,
the processor further operable to aggregate the plurality of first geo-fencing areas and the one or more second geo-fencing areas into aggregated geo-fencing area and store information associated with the aggregated geo-fencing area in the storage device,
the processor further operable to gather content associated with the aggregated geo-fencing area at least by searching online network information,
the processor further operable to present the content associated with the aggregated geo-fencing area to at least one of the first user and the second user.

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