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App. No. 16/451,301

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING LOCATION DATA FOR LOCATION BASED REWARDS

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App. No.
16/451,301
Abstract

Providing a purchase incentive to a mobile device based for example the user's location, predicted route of travel, and prior transactions. A tracking server computer determines a number of locations of a mobile device as it travels along a route and an associated timeframe when it is at each of the locations. The tracking server computer records the locations and associated timeframes in a location log and analyzes the location log to predict a subsequent location and associated timeframe that the mobile device will be at that location. The tracking server computer then determines a merchant proximate to the predicted subsequent location of the mobile device and generates a purchase incentive for use at the merchant and delivers the purchase incentive to the mobile device. In the alternative, the incentive may be generated by a merchant computer or the mobile device.

Claims (14)

1 . A method comprising

a mobile device analyzing GPS coordinate data from a GPS receiver on the mobile device to determine a location of the mobile device as the mobile device travels along a route;

a user activating an input on a mobile device to generate a request comprising an interest of the user;

in response to the request, the mobile device obtaining a response relevant to the location of the mobile device and the interest of the user; and

the mobile device presenting the response to the user.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device generates the response.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device interacts with a remotely located server computer that generates the response and provides the response to the mobile device.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein the interest of the user comprises prior transaction history.

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein the response is a purchase incentive usable at a merchant proximate to the location of the mobile device.

6 . The method of claim 1 wherein the determined location is based on a predicted route of travel of the mobile device.

7 . The method of claim 6 wherein the predicted route of travel of the mobile device is determined by

the mobile device analyzing GPS coordinate data from the GPS receiver on the mobile device to determine a plurality of locations of the mobile device as the mobile device travels along a route and an associated timeframe when the mobile device is at each of the plurality of locations;

the mobile device recording the plurality of locations and associated timeframes in a location log stored on the mobile device;

the mobile device analyzing the location log to predict a subsequent location of the mobile device and an associated timeframe that the mobile device will be at the subsequent location.