115 results about "Geotargeting" patented technology

Methods, systems and processor-readable media for extracting and classifying location information utilizing social media messages and/or data thereof. The social media messages can be sampled from a social media database and the messages filtered based on a heuristic rule. A geolocation entity from the unstructured social media messages can be extracted utilizing a geolocation entity extracting module. The messages with the geoentities can be uploaded onto a crowd sourcing platform to manually annotate the messages with a label. A text classification model can be built and learned from the label utilizing a machine learning algorithm and the messages can be classified by a location classifier in order to extract the user location. The user location can then be transformed into a geocode so that a spatial search can be enabled and the distance between the locations can be easily calculated.

This invention provides a system and method that enable wired and wireless computing device users to create, access and share geographical positioning data and related information preferably in real time. It allows for the creation, storage, access, transmission and management of geographical positioning data determined by GPS (or any other known method) coupled with other data such as text, images, audio and video which provides information, products and services relating to the said geographical positioning data. In a preferred embodiment, the system comprises a wireless positioning system and a wireless two-way data communication between a portable device and a network server. Said system and method allow users to integrate the use of location bookmarks in various applications.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for geo-located social connectivity relating to people, events, and commerce. In general, embodiments of the invention provide a social commerce matching system. An intelligent interactive tool provides individuals the ability to geo-locate like-minded individuals/groups and participate in events. Individuals or businesses can generate events. Businesses can support events through advertising promotions, and deals.

Methods and apparatus are provided for geo-locating load balancing. According to one embodiment, a communication network architecture includes multiple servers, multiple load balancers, and multiple geographically dispersed communication devices. The servers provide services to the communication devices within the communication network. The load balancers each service a shared virtual Internet Protocol (IP) address common to all of the load balancers and perform load balancing of service requests on behalf of two or more of the servers that are located geographically proximate to the load balancer. The communication devices are communicatively coupled with the load balancers and are configured to issue service requests intended for any of the servers to the shared virtual IP address, whereby, upon issuing a service request, a communication device is directed to a particular server selected by a load balancing routine that is associated with a load balancer that is closest to the communication device.

Systems and methods maintain at least one point of interest data file within a computer-readable storage medium and automatically identify a current user location of a user based on a geographic positioning feature of a portable electronic device that is maintained within a first predetermined distance from the user. The systems and methods automatically compare the current user location with the point of interest data file to identify whether the user is located within a second predetermined distance of a point of interest maintained within the point of interest data file. If the user is within the second predetermined distance of a point of interest, the systems and methods automatically create a user status data file. The user status data comprises data identifying that the user is currently at the point of interest. The user status data file is comprised of, but is not limited to, video, still pictures, and audio captured at the current user location as well as textual description of the user's participation at the point of interest. The systems and methods automatically upload the user status data file to a social networking web site associated with the user as an activity post associated with the user.

The invention broadly comprises a method and service of visualization of Internet nodes involved in distributed electronic crime in order to see patterns of actionable intelligence, such as multiple phishing nodes hosted at the same hosting center, or domain names registered in one country that are actually in another country or nodes related by one or more aspects, such as specific criminal attack campaign, target or technical weakness exploited to ease commandeering of the node. The invention involves collecting topological and latency data including changes over time and using the data to determine probable topological and geographical locations of single or multiple nodes, as well as inferential geolocation.

A mobile shopping system and method providing consumers the ability to scan a bar code or search of an item online and purchase the item. The item may be purchased in store or online which is then shipped to the consumer. The invention also serves a retailer in permitting the retailer to verify an in-store purchase or deter theft by weighing a product. The retailer may also keep track of inventory and monitor a consumer's purchasing habits. The invention further provides a retailer-consumer and consumer-consumer geo-locating and tracking map; a social shopping network using consumer mobile shopping profiles, as well as a rewards system.

A method for transporting cargo using a truck is provided. Preferably, the method is used in connection with full truckload operations. The method generally includes powering up a communications module residing within a cab of the truck. The communications module comprises a vehicle navigation system, a modem for receiving telecommunications signals, a processing unit for associating instructions for cargo delivery locations with geo-positioning coordinates, and a user interface. The method further includes receiving a cargo delivery data set at the communications module. The data set is sent from a host trucking management system. The data set provides at least a first cargo delivery location for the driver. The method then includes the driver acknowledging receipt of the first cargo delivery location through the user interface. Acknowledgment of receipt of the first cargo delivery location causes a signal to be sent from the communications module to the host trucking management system. The method also includes driving the truck and cargo to the first cargo delivery location. Upon arrival, the host trucking management system is informed. This is done by sending a first arrival signal from the communications module.

In response to a track playing on a broadcast radio station, the corresponding artist name is used as a key to access a database of artist messages, news and events information associated with that artist, that may be automatically distributed and geo-targeted while the track is playing. Distribution of the supplemental artist-related content extends to the radio broadcast—via RDS and HD, to the Internet, social media and various mobile devices. The supplement content may comprise messages pre-programmed by the artist, agents, or music labels. The supplemental content may be geo-targeted to include local tour dates, media appearances, related news, album releases and other data tied to the artist's song that is playing on the radio or on a streaming application. Further, the system may feed messages directly from the artist's existing social platforms, to provide further engagement of listeners while the track is playing.

The disclosure relates to systems and methods of burning, snapshotting, streaming and curating geofeeds, each geofeed including a plurality of geofeed content items that are aggregated from a plurality of content providers using respective requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of content providers, where each individual set of a plurality of content is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. Archives of a geofeed may be generated by burning portions or all of the geofeed content items and/or generating snapshots of geofeeds at different times. A real-time geofeed may be streamed by continuously or periodically obtaining newly available geofeed content items and updated a geofeed stream in real-time. Collections of geofeed content items may be curated in order to organize and follow geofeed content items of interest.

A framework is used for creating a geography fence based on geography mark items (such as a photo).The geography mark items can be used for sharing virtual boundary (such as a geography fence) between users via a conventional method sharing digital media (such as an e-mail). An extracting assembly is used for extracting geography positioning information (such as coordinates of latitude and longitude, elevation, direction, distance, and place name or the like) of the geography mark items. The geography positioning information may relate to geographic position performing geographic mark on the items. A boundary assembly then creates a virtual boundary (such as a geography fence) which relates to the geographic position and which is based on the geography positioning information. Thereafter, virtual boundary and attached action are activated when the user spans the boundary (such as connection, and cross). The mark items can be shared with another user, and when processed, the virtual boundary of the another user is created.

The invention provides a business travel area location service system based on a low-power Bluetooth beacon. The system mainly comprises Bluetooth beacon devices which are installed and deployed at intersections or shops or scenic spots and send broadcast frame signals carrying the device identifiers thereof, a mobile terminal device which receives and parses the broadcast frame signals, sends a location service request carrying the device identifiers of the Bluetooth beacon devices to a management server and displays data information returned by the management server, and the management server which stores the information of the Bluetooth beacon devices in a database, queries the database according to the device identifiers of the Bluetooth beacon devices in the location service request, acquires the location coordinates of the corresponding Bluetooth beacon devices and the introduction to the corresponding shops or scenic spots, and returns the queried information to the mobile terminal device. The system can provide functions of information push, geographic location, path navigation and intelligent recommendation for the mobile terminal device effectively, and the whole system is relatively simple and convenient to deploy and easy to use.

A system, method and computer program product for managing the quality of service differentiated cloud storage. The cloud storage (and its services) is highly distributed. An overall speed of the storage is calculated based on storage speed and a traffic speed of the connection to the particular cloud storage. Data access expenses are calculated. Then, for each of the portions of the cloud storage the associated speed and traffic costs are calculated, so the user can select a level of data access guarantee (DAG) for his particular needs. In order to maintain the desired overall speed of the data access, geo-targeting with the cloud storage system is implemented, where the same data is retrieved from different locations based on optimal data movement costs.

Being applicable to the field of information technologies, the invention provides a navigation information generation method and system. The method includes: letting a mobile client receive or shoot a surrounding environment digital image of a user's current location, after the image is detected qualified, extracting image features according to the image type and key area divided by the system automatically or calibrated by the user, sending the image features and geographical locating information to a server together so as to retrieve the environmental information of the image's key area part, at the same time, calculating the shooting position and the user's current visual angle by the server, then sending the environmental information and the visual angle information back to the mobile client, and fusing the information with the digital image on the mobile client by an augmented reality means to form a user's visual angle based environmental information fused and reality augmented navigation chart. The method provided by the invention can improve the accuracy of the navigation system, provide the user's visual angle based environmental information fused and reality augmented navigation chart, and strengthen the user experience.

Methods and systems described herein relate to enhancing security on a mobile device. A method for enhancing mobile device security includes providing a trusted zone of a processor, and configuring various items in the trusted zone. Such items may include a specialized debugging interface; a remote auditing tool; an inter-process communication mechanism; a secure daemon; a package manager; a virtual machine, a configuration function, a device management system, touch screen management software, and a geo-localization function.