Mobile proximity based messages

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018288564-A1
Application number	US-201815859871-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 2, 2018
Priority date	Aug 24, 2015
Publication date	Oct 4, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques for providing proximity based messages are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include one or more servers configured to receive proximity message requests from a consumer device. The requests may include consumer device locations, which may be used by the one or more servers to generate a geofence set. Furthermore, the consumer device location may be used as a basis for selecting notification data relevant to the location. Both the geofence set and the notification data may be sent to the consumer device in a single proximity message response for local notification creation if the notification data can be collected within a maximum response time. The notification data may be provided via a push notification server asynchronously if the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time.

First claim

1 . A system for providing proximity based messages via a network, comprising:
one or more databases; and one or more servers configured to:
receive a proximity message request from a consumer device via the network, wherein the proximity message request includes location data defining a consumer device location of the consumer device, wherein the consumer device location is associated with a plurality of proximate locations, each proximate location of the plurality of proximate locations associated with a geofence of a geofence set comprising a plurality of geofences; and
in response to receiving the proximity message request:
determine a maximum response time defining a maximum time in which the one or more servers are configured to attempt to collect notification data associated with a first geofence associated with the consumer device location of the proximity message request from one or more databases on behalf of the consumer device;
and
in response to determining that notification data associated with the first geofence can be collected within the maximum response time by querying the one or more databases:
provide a proximity message response to the consumer device via the network, the proximity message response comprising the geofence set and the notification data associated with the first geofence; and

in response to determining that the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time, provide the notification data associated with the first geofence to a push notification server configured to generate the notification based on the notification data and asynchronously push the notification to the consumer device.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to, subsequent to providing the proximity message response to the consumer device:
receive a second proximity message request from the consumer device via the network, wherein the second proximity message request includes second location data defining a second consumer device location, and wherein the second location data indicates that the consumer device has reached a second geofence of the geofence set, wherein the second location data is associated with a plurality of second proximate locations each second proximate location of the plurality of second proximate locations associated with a geofence of a second geofence set comprising a plurality of geofences; and in response to receiving the second message notification request:
provide a second proximity message response to the consumer device via the network, the second proximity message response comprising the second geofence set and second notification data associated with the second geofence.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to:
determine whether the consumer device location is within a second geofence based on the location data; and in response to determining that the consumer device location fails to be within the second geofence:
generate a second proximity message response including the geofence set independent of the notification data; and
provide the second proximity message response to the consumer device via the network.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to, in response to determining that the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time:
generate a second proximity message response including the geofence set and independent of the notification; and provide the second proximity message response to the consumer device via the network.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein determining the maximum response time comprises receiving the maximum response time from the consumer device with the proximity message request.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to:
receive an access indication from the consumer device indicating an interaction by the consumer device with the notification via consumer device input; and in response to receiving a second proximity message request, determine second notification data based at least in part on the access indication.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to:
receive a presentation indication from the consumer device indicating a display of the notification on the consumer device; and in response to receiving a second proximity message request, determine second notification data based at least in part on the presentation indication.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to:
track a proximity message response count; determine a proximity message response threshold; and in response to determining that the proximity message response count fails to exceed the proximity message response threshold:
provide the proximity message response to the consumer device via the network; and
increment the proximity message response count.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the proximity message response further includes a badge number of a consumer application icon of the consumer device when the application is executing in the background of an operating system of the consumer device.

10 - 16 . (canceled)

17 . A method for providing proximity based messages via a network, comprising:
receiving, by one or more servers, a proximity message request from the consumer device via the network, wherein the proximity message request includes location data defining a consumer device location of the consumer device, wherein the consumer device location is associated with a plurality of proximate locations, each proximate location of the plurality of proximate locations associated with a geofence of a geofence set comprising a plurality of geofences; and in response to receiving the proximity message request, and by the one or more servers:
in response to determining that notification data defining a notification associated with a first geofence associated with the consumer device location of the proximity message request can be collected within a maximum response time:
providing proximity message response to the consumer device via the network, the proximity message response comprising the geofence set and the notification data associated with the first geofence; and

in response to determining that the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time, provide the notification data associated with the first geofence to a push notification server configured to generate the notification based on the notification data and asynchronously push the notification to the consumer device.

18 . The method of claim 17 further comprising, by the one or more servers and subsequent to providing the proximity message response to the consumer device:
receiving a second proximity message request from the consumer device, wherein the second proximity message request includes second location data defining a second consumer device location, and wherein the second location data indicates that the consumer device has reached a second geofence of the geofence set, wherein the second location data is associated with a plurality of second proximate locations each second proximate location of the plurality of second proximate locations associated with a geofence of a second geofence set comprising a plurality of geofences; and
in response to receiving the second message notification request:
providing a second proximity message response to the consumer device via the network, the second proximity message response comprising the second geofence set and second notification data assoc

Assignees

• Groupon Inc

Inventors

• Ellis Scott
• Gangal Devdatta
• Joy Jayesh
• Barney Hamish

Classifications

• H04W4/021 Primary

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• G06Q30/0261

  based on user location · CPC title

• H04W4/023

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• H04L67/26

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/20

  Electricity · mapped topic