Patent ID: 9008691
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, used by a location based service system including at least one server having at least one network interface, of identifying a physical named location visited by a user of a wireless device having a wireless communication interface and a geographic location sensor, comprising the acts of: receiving, from the wireless device, geographic location information corresponding to the geographic location of the wireless device determined based at least in part on information from the geographic location sensor of the wireless device wherein the information from the geographic location sensor is generated while the wireless device is physically located at the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device; transmitting, to the wireless device, the name of at least two named locations near the geographic location of the wireless device by comparing the received geographic location information to a database including named locations and associated geographic location information wherein one of the at least two named locations is the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device; receiving, from the wireless device, information corresponding to the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device, selected from the at two named locations, that verifies with the location based service system the physical named location visited by the user of the wireless device; storing information indicating that the user of the wireless device visited the physical named location in the location history associated with the user; receiving at a subsequent time, from the wireless device, geographic location information corresponding to an updated geographic location of the wireless device determined based at least in part on information from the geographic location sensor of the wireless device; transmitting, to the wireless device, a recommended business of interest to the user and targeted content relating to the recommended business, based on the updated geographic location of the wireless device and the location history associated with the user.