Granted system claim · US12039568B2

Independent Claim 1

Claim 1 defines a multi-component consumer communication system combining retailer-associated infrastructure, previously collected consumer data, relevance determination, geographic and temporal conditions and automatic communication enablement. Select an element to open its contained review panel.

1B

Granted Claim 1 · Element B

Database of previously collected data regarding consumer users

STRONG PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE

Strong

01

Granted claim language

Verbatim · US12039568B2 · Claim 1

a database of previously collected data in respect of users of the secondary user devices; and

02

Claim requirement

Technical interpretation — not claim language

The claimed system retains information about the consumer that pre-dates the notification event. The architecture does not operate on instantaneous position alone; it expressly introduces previously collected information concerning the consumer as an input to the system.

03

Publicly disclosed Woosmap functionality

Woosmap states that the Geofencing SDK collects and stores user locations and visits within the mobile application’s local database, and derives higher-order behavioural structures from that retained history.

  • User locations
  • Visits
  • Zones of Interest
  • Recurrent locations
  • Geographical clusters
  • Temporal clusters
  • Locally stored location / visit information

User-related location context

  1. 01Consumer device location samples
  2. 02Visit detection
  3. 03Local storage of locations and visits
  4. 04Geographical and temporal clustering
  5. 05Zones of Interest / recurrent locations
  6. 06Retained behavioural context for the user
04

Public evidence

Woosmap (developers.woosmap.com)

Woosmap Geofencing SDK — Get Started

Integration of the SDK into a business-controlled mobile application; identification of app-user location; local collection and storage of user locations and visits in the application database; and derivation of Zones of Interest, geographical and temporal clusters and recurrent locations.

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Woosmap (woosmap.com)

Woosmap Geofencing — commercial use case page

Commercial description of geofencing triggering events on device entry or exit of a monitored region; contextualisation of push notifications at the right time and in the right place; support for distance-based, time-based, ETA/isochrone and recurrent geofences; and retail, geomarketing and offer-targeting use cases including tailoring by where users live or work.

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05

Technical correspondence

This publicly disclosed architecture is relevant because the granted claim does not operate solely on instantaneous location. It expressly introduces previously collected information concerning the consumer. Woosmap publicly discloses collection and analysis of historical user-location and visit information, creating substantial technical relevance to the previously-collected-data component of the granted architecture.

06

Evidentiary status

STRONG PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE

Matters for further review

It does not follow that Woosmap’s location history satisfies every construction of “a database of previously collected data in respect of users”. Where that store resides in a given deployment — on device, in the retailer’s systems, or in an integrated platform — and what it contains beyond location, requires confirmation.