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Exclusive delivery of content within geographic areas

Grant US12579554B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Inventors

Ryan Hardin, Andrew Hill

Abstract

Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 30/0261 G06Q 30/02 G06Q 30/0266 G06Q 30/0267 H04M 3/42357 H04M 2242/14 H04W 4/021 H04W 4/029 H04W 4/18 H04W 4/02 H04L 67/53

Filing Date

2024-07-03

Application No.

18764076

Claims

11