Granted Claim 1 · Element I
Automatic disablement and enablement of communication
Strong
Granted claim language
Verbatim · US12039568B2 · Claim 1such that the communication between the one or more secondary user devices and the primary user device is:
automatically disabled when the one or more secondary user devices are not located at the particular location, or located outside the specified region or distance in relation to the geographical location, and outside the specified time, or period of time, to thereby prevent sending of notifications to the one or more secondary user devices, and
automatically enabled 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 at the specified time, or within the specified period of time, to thereby allow sending of notifications to the one or more secondary user devices.
Claim requirement
Technical interpretation — not claim languageThe two conditions jointly control a communication state. When they are not satisfied the channel is automatically closed; when both are satisfied it is automatically opened. No human intervention is recited.
Publicly disclosed Woosmap functionality
Woosmap publicly discloses automatic geofence monitoring, automatic entry and exit event generation, ETA-driven events, contextual push notifications and downstream engagement integrations. Its commercial material describes contextualising notifications so they are delivered at the right time and in the right place.
- Automatic geofence monitoring
- Automatic entry / exit events
- ETA events
- Contextual push notifications
- Downstream engagement integrations
Conditions satisfied
- 01Location condition satisfied
- 02Temporal condition satisfied
- 03Automatic event generation
- 04Communication enabled — notification permitted
Conditions not satisfied
- 01Device outside monitored region or outside period
- 02No event generated
- 03Communication remains disabled — notification withheld
Public evidence
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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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 publicly demonstrates automatic condition-driven event generation. The disclosed architecture is automated and conditional: nothing in the described flow requires an operator to observe the consumer’s position and release a message.
Evidentiary status
Matters for further review
The remaining legal question is whether particular deployments implement the exact claimed communication enable and disable relationship, including the automatic disabling limb, rather than merely omitting to send.