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Exclusive delivery of content within geographic areas

Grant US12591912B2 Kind: B2 Mar 31, 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 30/02 G06Q 30/0277 G06Q 30/0269 G06Q 30/0261 G06Q 30/0241 G06Q 30/0207 G06Q 30/0276 G06Q 30/0272 G06Q 30/0266 G06Q 30/0251 G06Q 30/0264 H04W 4/029 H04W 4/21 H04W 4/02

Filing Date

2025-01-17

Application No.

19027319

Claims

22