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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.

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Granted Claim 1 · Element G

Location-gated notification delivery

DIRECT PUBLIC EVIDENCE

Very strong

01

Granted claim language

Verbatim · US12039568B2 · Claim 1

only when the one or more secondary user devices are located at the particular location, or within the specified region or distance in relation to the geographical location; and

02

Claim requirement

Technical interpretation — not claim language

Delivery is gated. The notification issues because the spatial condition is satisfied, and not otherwise.

03

Publicly disclosed Woosmap functionality

Woosmap publicly states that geofencing sets off events when a user’s device enters or exits a monitored region, and that these events can trigger push notifications or other application behaviour. The developer documentation describes the same conditional event model.

Conditional delivery state machine

  1. 01Outside region — notification condition inactive
  2. 02Device enters geofence
  3. 03Location condition satisfied
  4. 04Event generated
  5. 05Communication / app action
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Public evidence

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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Woosmap (developers.woosmap.com)

Woosmap Geofencing — SDK concepts documentation

Definition of geofencing as monitoring of a geographic area to recognise device presence within a boundary; enter/exit boundary-crossing events; geofences representing a store, competitor store, neighbourhood or other point of interest; automatically generated store geofences; and isochrone (time-based) geofences monitored against estimated time of arrival.

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Technical correspondence

The conditional character of delivery is expressed directly in Woosmap’s public material: the event, and therefore the downstream communication, is a consequence of the geographic condition being met rather than of a scheduled or untargeted send.

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Evidentiary status

DIRECT PUBLIC EVIDENCE

Matters for further review

Whether a given deployment also operates unconditional send paths alongside the geofence-triggered path is not observable from public material.

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