Methods, systems, and apparatus for a geo-fence system
Methods, systems, and apparatus for defining, generating, utilizing, and/or detecting a geo-fence are described. A trigger is obtained, the trigger generated in response to a change in a geo-fence criteria. One or more boundaries of the geo-fence based on the geo-fence criteria are defined in response to obtaining the trigger.
1. An apparatus for generating a geo-fence, the apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
memory to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
obtain a definition of the geo-fence, the geo-fence being defined based on a first geo-fence criterion of a plurality of geo-fence criteria;
obtain a trigger, the trigger generated in response to a change in the first geo-fence criterion; and
redefine one or more boundaries of the geo-fence based on the changed first geo-fence criterion in response to obtaining the trigger, wherein one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified at a geo-fence device that detects one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries and wherein one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified due to a count of applications executing on the geo-fence device and monitoring for a geo-fence.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , the redefining modifies one or more existing geo-fence boundaries.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , the trigger is one or more of:
a density of electronic commerce listings being within a defined density range;
a density of geo-fences being within a defined density range;
a reception of new demographic information;
a reception of revised user characteristics; and
a defined time-of-day alarm.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , the geo-fence criteria is one or more of:
a human population;
a density of human population;
a density of establishments;
a count of establishments;
a density of electronic commerce listings;
a count of electronic commerce listings;
an item value;
a popularity of an item based on a number of online searches for the item;
a popularity of an item based on a number of online views of an item;
a popularity of an item based on a number of sales of the item;
one or more item characteristics;
demographics of human population;
a travel time;
one or more characteristics of a user;
an itinerary of a user; and
a time of day.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified based on an amount of storage on the geo-fence device.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , a shape of the geo-fence is a circle and a radius of the circle is based on the first geo-fence criterion.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , a shape of the geo-fence is based on demographic information.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 , the geo-fence is activated at a start of a specified period of time and is deactivated at an end of the specified period of time.
9. A method for generating a geo-fence, the method comprising:
obtaining a definition of the geo-fence, the geo-fence being defined based on a first geo-fence criterion of a plurality of geo-fence criteria;
obtaining a trigger, the trigger generated in response to a change in the first geo-fence criterion; and
redefining one or more boundaries of the geo-fence based on the changed first geo-fence criterion in response to obtaining the trigger, wherein one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified at a geo-fence device that detects one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries and wherein one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified due to a count of applications executing on the geo-fence device and monitoring for a geo-fence.
10. The method of claim 9 , the redefining modifies one or more existing geo-fence boundaries.
11. The method of claim 9 , the trigger is one or more of:
a density of electronic commerce listings being within a defined density range;
a density of geo-fences being within a defined density range;
a reception of new demographic information;
a reception of revised user characteristics; and
a defined time-of-day alarm.
12. The method of claim 9 , one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified based on an amount of storage on the geo-fence device.
13. The method of claim 9 , a shape of the geo-fence is based on demographic information.
14. The method of claim 9 , the geo-fence is activated at a start of a specified period of time and is deactivated at an end of the specified period of time.
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform operations comprising:
obtaining a definition of the geo-fence, the geo-fence being defined based on a first geo-fence criterion of a plurality of geo-fence criteria;
obtaining a trigger, the trigger generated in response to a change in the first geo-fence criterion; and
redefining one or more boundaries of the geo-fence based on the changed first geo-fence criterion in response to obtaining the trigger, wherein one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified at a geo-fence device that detects one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries and wherein one or more of the one or more geo-fence boundaries are modified due to a count of applications executing on the geo-fence device and monitoring for a geo-fence.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , the redefining modifies one or more existing geo-fence boundaries.