Exclusive delivery of content within geographic areas

ChangeBridge: Patent Grants - Business Methods (G06Q)

Published March 31st, 2026

Detected April 1st, 2026

Summary

The USPTO granted patent US12591911B2 to inventors Ryan Hardin and Andrew Hill for a system enabling geographic-based content delivery on mobile devices. The invention allows application developers to register apps with a content delivery platform that establishes geographic perimeters and reserves areas for specific sponsors. Registered mobile applications receive sponsor content based on the user's location relative to defined geographic zones.

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The USPTO granted Patent US12591911B2 on March 31, 2026, covering a method and system for exclusive delivery of content within geographic areas. The patent describes how application developers can register applications with a content delivery platform, which establishes geographic perimeters and maintains records reserving areas for particular sponsors. Mobile devices running registered applications can request content, and the platform delivers sponsor-related content based on whether the device's target location falls within a geographic area assigned to that sponsor.

This is a patent grant notification with no regulatory compliance requirements. No action is required from compliance teams. Technology companies developing location-based advertising or content delivery systems may wish to review this patent for potential licensing considerations or freedom-to-operate analysis. The patent contains 16 claims covering CPC classifications in G06Q 30 (Marketing) and H04W 4 (Location-based services).

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Exclusive delivery of content within geographic areas

Grant US12591911B2 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 G06Q 30/0267 H04W 4/029 H04W 4/21 H04W 4/02 H04W 4/021 H04W 4/18 H04M 3/42357 H04M 2242/14 H04L 67/53