Location-based digital token management systems, methods, and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12333664-B2
Application number	US-202418414101-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 16, 2024
Priority date	Dec 7, 2022
Publication date	Jun 17, 2025
Grant date	Jun 17, 2025

Abstract

Techniques (e.g., systems, apparatus, methods) for a location-based inventory management system. The techniques including obtaining a location of at least one mobile device and identifying at least one augmented reality (AR) virtual object container having a rule set based on the location. The techniques further including instantiating an inventory of virtual objects for the at least one AR virtual object container according to the rule set of the AR virtual object container. The techniques further including enabling the mobile device to render the inventory of the virtual objects within the AR virtual object container on a display of the mobile device. The techniques further including enabling a transaction associated with the virtual objects via the mobile device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A location-based inventory management system comprising:
at least one non-transitory memory storing software instructions; and
at least one processor coupled with the memory and that performs the following operations upon execution of the software instructions:
obtaining a location of at least one mobile device, wherein the at least one mobile device is executing a video game application;
identifying at least one augmented reality (AR) virtual object container based on the location corresponding to a container location that changes over time and that corresponds to movement of a physical object that is recognized using an object detection algorithm, the AR virtual object container having a rule set selected from a plurality of rule sets based on the location, the plurality of rules sets including the rule set;
instantiating an inventory of virtual objects for the at least one AR virtual object container according to the rule set of the AR virtual object container, wherein the inventory of the virtual objects comprises at least one of the following assets associated with the video game application: a program code, a program code package, a video game character, a video game skin, a texture for a video game, a patch, or a video game object;
enabling the mobile device to render the inventory of the virtual objects within the AR virtual object container on a display of the mobile device; and
enabling a transaction associated with the virtual objects via the mobile device.

2. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , further comprising determining a context of the mobile device wherein the context comprises at least one of the following: a user account type, or an identifier of the video game application.

3. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
enabling the mobile device to render an AR planogram within the AR virtual object container on the display of the mobile device, the AR planogram including the inventory of the virtual objects.

4. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein rendering the inventory of the virtual objects displays an augmented reality on the display; and
wherein the rule set of the AR virtual object container indicates an interaction type, a context, and a condition for interacting with the AR virtual object container.

5. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the location comprises a physical location proximate to the mobile device.

6. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the location comprises at least one of the following: a geo-fenced area, a zip code, or a plus-code.

7. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the location comprises an S2 cell location.

8. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the transaction comprises a notarized ledger transaction on a notarized ledger.

9. The location-based inventory management system of claim 8 , wherein the inventory of the virtual objects comprises digital tokens represented on the notarized ledger or non-fungible tokens represented on the notarized ledger.

10. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of rule sets further includes a second rule set, wherein the rule set causes a first subset of virtual objects to be presented in the virtual object container, and wherein the second rule set causes a second subset of virtual objects to be presented in the virtual object container.

11. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the transaction is (i) a notarized ledger transaction on a notarized ledger, (ii) associated with the virtual objects via the mobile device, and (iii) enabled while a location-dependent criterion associated with the virtual object container is satisfied by the location.

12. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the inventory of the virtual objects comprises a deterministic inventory, wherein the inventory is based on a time that the location-based inventory management system received a signal from the mobile device.

13. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the inventory of the virtual objects instantiated for the at least one AR virtual object container is additionally instantiated for a second AR virtual object container having a second rule set different than the rule set, wherein the second rule set is selected based on a second location different from the location.

14. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include enabling the mobile device to anchor the AR virtual object container to the location relative to the mobile device.

15. The location-based inventory management system of claim 14 , wherein the AR virtual object container is anchored to at least one of the following: a physical location, a surface, an object, a bar code, or a logo.

16. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the AR virtual object container comprises a gashapon machine.

17. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , further comprising:
enabling a virtual object to be added to the inventory of virtual objects based at least on information received from the mobile device.

18. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the rule set causes the AR virtual object container to be presented differently compared to how the AR virtual object container would be presented using a different rule set for the same AR virtual object container.

19. The location-based inventory management system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include:
determining a first context of the mobile device, wherein the rule set is further selected based on the first context;
obtaining the location of a second mobile device;
identifying the at least one AR virtual object container based on the location corresponding to the container location, the AR virtual object container having a second rule set different from the rule set, selected from the plurality of rule sets, and based the location and a second context;
instantiating a second inventory of second virtual objects for the at least one AR virtual object container according to the second rule set of the AR virtual object container;
enabling the second mobile device to render the second inventory of second virtual objects within the AR virtual object container on a second display of the second mobile device; and
enabling a second transaction associated with the second virtual objects via the second mobile device.

20. A method comprising:
obtaining a location of at least one mobile device;
identifying at least one augmented reality (AR) virtual object container based on the location corresponding to a container location that changes over time and that corresponds to movement of a physical object that is recognized using an object detection algorithm, the AR virtual object container having a rule set selected from a plurality of rule sets based on the location, the plurality of rules sets including the rule set;
instantiating an inventory of virtual objects for the at least one AR virtual object container according to the rule set of the AR virtual object container;
enabling the mobile device to render the inventory of the virtual objects within the AR virtual object container on a display of the mobile device; and
enabling a trans

Assignees

• Nant Holdings Ip Llc

Inventors

• Witchey Nicholas J
• Wiacek John
• Fyfe Jake
• Soon-Shiong Patrick

Classifications

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