Patent Issued for System, Method And Apparatus For Location Based Delivery Of Determined Pertinent Data (USPTO 10,650,411)

2020 MAY 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent by the inventors Billman, Bradly J. (San Antonio, TX); Mortensen, Maland K. (San Antonio, TX); Hartman, Wayne M. (San Antonio, TX); McNulty, Meighan K. (San Antonio, TX); Kincaid, Craig (Floresville, TX); Maldonado, Joshua D. (San Antonio, TX); Vijayvergia, Gunjan C. (San Antonio, TX), filed on November 16, 2015, was published online on May 25, 2020, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents.

Patent number 10,650,411 is assigned to United Services Automobile Association.

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “In order to improve the consumer experience, an improved system is needed for identifying and/or tracking consumers, and for transmitting pertinent information to individual consumers based upon the consumers’ membership affiliations.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “The purpose and advantages of the below described illustrated embodiments will be set forth in and apparent from the description that follows. Additional advantages of the illustrated embodiments will be realized and attained by the devices, systems and methods particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof, as well as from the appended drawings.

“To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the illustrated embodiments, in one aspect, a system, method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a portable computing device (a smart phone device) in proximity area of the detection associated with a vendor to determine relevant pertinent information is described in which a beacon device at a retail location establishes communication with a user’s smart phone device which detection is then send to a remotely located server. The remotely located server determines if the detected portable computing device is associated with a predefined category of user. Contingent upon the category of user determination, a determination is made regarding information pertinent to the user. The pertinent information is then caused to be sent to the user’s smart phone device.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“What is claimed is:

“1. A beacon detection device for detecting the presence of a user smart phone device to provide pertinent information to the user of the smart phone device when the user is located in a parking lot in proximity to a retail store, comprising: at least one database storing information associated with a plurality of users; a beacon antenna configured to be mounted in a parking lot in proximity to a retail store for detecting presence of the user smart phone device in the parking lot; a processor operably coupled to the at least one database and the beacon antenna being instructed to: detect the presence of the user smart phone device in the parking lot in proximity to the retail store; determine if the smart phone device is associated with a predefined category of user; determine product availability of one or more items contemplated for purchase in the retail store by the user while the user is located within the parking lot associated with the retail store upon analysis of preexisting data in the at least one database indicative of one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user of the smart phone device; and transmit a signal from the antenna with pertinent information to the user smart phone device located in the parking lot including the determined product availability of the one or more items while the user is located in the parking lot associated with the retail store.

“2. The apparatus for detecting the presence of a user smart phone device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further instructed to: determine pricing of one or more items contemplated for purchase by the user of the smart phone device upon analysis of preexisting data in the at least one database indicative of one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user of the smart phone device; and transmit a signal from the antenna with pertinent information to the user smart phone device located in the parking lot including the determined pricing of the one or more items while the user is located in the parking lot associated with the retail store.

“3. The apparatus for detecting the presence of a user smart phone device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further instructed to: determine a packaging size associated with the one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user; determine whether a vehicle associated with the user can accommodate the determined packaging size of the one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user; and transmit a signal from the antenna to the user smart device located in the parking with the determined information whether the user’s vehicle can accommodate the one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user.

“4. A beacon detection device for detecting the presence of a user smart phone device to provide pertinent information to the user of the smart phone device when the user is located in a parking lot in proximity to a retail store, comprising: at least one database storing information associated with a plurality of users; a beacon antenna configured to be mounted in a parking lot in proximity to a retail store for detecting presence of the user smart phone device in the parking lot; a processor operably coupled to the at least one database and the beacon antenna being instructed to: detect the presence of the user smart phone device in the parking lot in proximity to the retail store; determine if the smart phone device is associated with a predefined category of user; determine product availability and pricing of one or more items contemplated for purchase in the retail store by the user while the user is located within the parking lot associated with the retail store upon analysis of preexisting data in the at least one database indicative of one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user of the smart phone device; and transmit a signal from the antenna with pertinent information to the user smart phone device located in the parking lot including the determined product availability and pricing of the one or more items while the user is located in the parking lot associated with the retail store.

“5. The apparatus for detecting the presence of a user smart phone device as recited in claim 4, wherein the processor is further instructed to: determine pricing of one or more items contemplated for purchase by the user of the smart phone device upon analysis of preexisting data in the at least one database indicative of one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user of the smart phone device; and transmit a signal from the antenna with pertinent information to the user smart phone device located in the parking lot including the determined pricing of the one or more items while the user is located in the parking lot associated with the retail store.

“6. A beacon detection device for detecting the presence of a user smart phone device to provide pertinent information to the user of the smart phone device when the user is located in a parking lot in proximity to a retail store, comprising: at least one database storing information associated with a plurality of users; a beacon antenna configured to be mounted in a parking lot in proximity to a retail store for detecting presence of the user smart phone device in the parking lot; a processor operably coupled to the at least one database and the beacon antenna being instructed to: detect the presence of the user smart phone device in the parking lot in proximity to the retail store; determine if the smart phone device is associated with a predefined category of user; determine product availability and pricing of one or more items contemplated for purchase in the retail store by the user while the user is located within the parking lot associated with the retail store upon analysis of preexisting data in the at least one database indicative of one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user of the smart phone device; determine a packaging size associated with the one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user and whether a vehicle associated with the user can accommodate the determined packaging size of the one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user; and transmit a signal from the antenna with pertinent information to the user smart phone device located in the parking lot including the determined product availability and pricing of the one or more items, and whether a vehicle associated with the user can accommodate the determined packaging size of the one or more items contemplated to be purchased by the user while the user is located in the parking lot associated with the retail store.”

URL and more information on this patent, see: Billman, Bradly J.; Mortensen, Maland K.; Hartman, Wayne M.; McNulty, Meighan K.; Kincaid, Craig; Maldonado, Joshua D.; Vijayvergia, Gunjan C. System, Method And Apparatus For Location Based Delivery Of Determined Pertinent Data. U.S. Patent Number 10,650,411, filed November 16, 2015, and published online on May 25, 2020. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,650,411.PN.&OS=PN/10,650,411RS=PN/10,650,411

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