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US 9,432,806 B2Granted
Dynamic geofence based on members within
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorMatthew Scott Zises
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Abstract
One example embodiment relates to a method that comprises receiving, via a first portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a first user in a network-based system; receiving, via second portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a second user in the network-based system; identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to the first user, and the received contextual information relating to the second user; and in response to an identification of the common element, defining a boundary for a geofence based on the geolocation of the first or second users.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- receiving, via a first portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a first user in a network-based system;
- receiving, via a second portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a second user in the network-based system;
- identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to the first user, and the received contextual information relating to the second user, wherein the common element is not pre-identified, and is identified upon a comparison of the first and second contextual information;
- in response to an identification of the common element, defining a boundary for a geofence based on the geolocation of the first or second users;
- and
- automatically monitoring the geolocation of the first or second user and dynamically adjusting the boundary of the geofence based on the identified common element and a change in the geolocation of the first or second user.
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A system comprising at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors, to:
- receive, via a first portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a first user in a network-based system;
- receive, via second portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a second user in the network-based system;
- identify a common element in the received contextual information relating to the first user, and the received contextual information relating to the second user, wherein the common element is not pre-identified, and is identified upon a comparison of the first and second contextual information;
- in response to an identification of the common element, defining a boundary for a geofence based on the geolocation of the first or second users;
- and
- automatically monitoring the geolocation of the first or second user and dynamically adjusting the boundary of the geofence based on the identified common element and a change in the geolocation of the first or second user.
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A non-transitory machine readable medium, including instructions, which when performed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the operations of:
- receiving, via a first portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a first user in a network-based system;
- receiving, via second portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a second user in the network-based system;
- identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to the first user, and the received contextual information relating to the second user, wherein the common element is not pre-identified, and is identified upon a comparison of the first and second contextual information;
- in response to an identification of the common element, defining a boundary for a geofence based on the geolocation of the first or second users;
- and
- automatically monitoring the geolocation of the first or second user and dynamically adjusting the boundary of the geofence based on the identified common element and a change in the geolocation of the first or second user.
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A method comprising:
- deploying one or more mobile stations into a geographic region of a network-based system, the mobile stations to facilitate definition of a boundary of a geofence surrounding a population of members connected to the network-based system located within the geographic region;
- receiving, via the one or more mobile stations, contextual information relating to a plurality of members of the population within the geographic region;
- identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to at least two members of the population as a basis for defining a first boundary of the geofence to include the at least two members, wherein the common element is not pre-identified, and is identified upon a comparison of the contextual information of the at least two members;
- automatically monitoring the geolocation of the at least two members of the population and dynamically adjusting the boundary of the geofence based on the identified common element and a change in the geolocation of one of the at least two members of the population;
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- defining the first boundary of the geofence.
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A system comprising:
- at least one mobile station deployable into a geographic region of a network-based system, the mobile station to facilitate definition of a boundary of a geofence surrounding a population of member s connected to the network-based system located within the geographic region;
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- at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors, to:
- receive, via the at least one mobile station, contextual information relating to a plurality of members of the population within the geographic region;
- identify a common element in the received contextual information relating to at least two members of the population as a basis for defining a first boundary of the geofence to include the at least two members, wherein the common element is not pre-identified, and is identified upon a comparison of the contextual information relating to the at least two members;
- automatically monitor the geolocation of the at least two members of the population and dynamically adjust the boundary of the geofence based on the identified common element and a change in the geolocation of one of the at least two members of the population;
- and
- define the first boundary of the geofence.
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A non-transitory machine readable medium, including instructions, which when performed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the operations of:
- receiving, via one or more mobile stations, contextual information relating to a plurality of members of the population within a geographic region of a network-based system, the one or more mobile stations deployable into the geographic region to facilitate the definition of a boundary of a geofence surrounding a population of member s connected to the network-based system located within the geographic region;
- identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to at least two members of the population as a basis for defining a first boundary of the geofence to include the at least two members, wherein the common element is not pre-identified, and is identified upon a comparison of the contextual information relating to the at least two members;
- automatically monitoring the geolocation of the at least two members of the population and dynamically adjusting, without manual intervention through a user interface, the boundary of the geofence based on the identified common element and a change in the geolocation of one of the at least two members of the population;
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- defining the first boundary of the geofence.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.