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US 12,382,244 · App. 18/128,991 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Geo-fence selection system

Inventors: Samir Ahmed (Marina del Rey, CA); Amit Gaur (Los Angeles, CA); Jean Luo (Seattle, WA); Yang Wen (Santa Monica, CA)
Assignee: Snap Inc.
H04W4/021H04L67/06H04L67/306H04L67/52H04W4/027H04W4/029
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Patent No.
US 12,382,244
App. No.
18/128,991
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to improvements to systems and methods for determining a current location of a client device, and for identifying and selecting appropriate geo-fences based on the current location of the client device. An improved geo-fence selection system performs operations that include associating media content with a geo-fence that encompasses a portion of a geographic region, sampling location data from a client device, defining a boundary based on the sampled location data from the client device, detecting an overlap between the boundary and the geo-fence, retrieving the media content associated with the geo-fence, and loading the media content at a memory location of the client device, in response to detecting the overlap.

Claims (55)

1. A method comprising:

associating media content with a geo-fence that encompasses a location;

accessing historical location data associated with a first client device, the historical location data comprising a plurality of data points that indicate one or more locations of the client device;

determining that a location from among the historical location data associated with the client device identifies the location encompassed by the geo-fence;

identifying a social network connection associated with a user of the first client device, the social network connection associated with a second client device;

loading the media content associated with the geo-fence at memory locations of the first client device and the second client device based on the historical location data identifying the location encompassed by the geo-fence.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting the first client device at the location;

accessing the memory location of the first client device; and

causing display of the media content at the first client device.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the detecting the first client device at the location includes:

receiving a request from the first client device, wherein the request includes an identification of the location.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loading the media content at a memory location of the second client device includes:

identifying the location from among the historical location data associated with the second client device; and

loading the media content at the memory location of the second client device based on the historical location data of the second client device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

presenting the media content within a media collection at the first client device.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the historical location data comprises a data point that includes a timestamp, and the loading the media content associated with the geo-fence at the first client device based on the historical location data is based on the timestamp.

7. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:

associating media content with a geo-fence that encompasses a location;

accessing historical location data associated with a first client device, the historical location data comprising a plurality of data points that indicate one or more locations of the first client device;

determining that a location from among the historical location data associated with the client device identifies the location encompassed by the geo-fence;

identifying a social network connection associated with a user of the first client device, the social network connection associated with a second client device;

loading the media content associated with the geo-fence at a memory location of the first client device and the second client device based on the historical location data identifying the location encompassed by the geo-fence.

8. The system of claim 7 , further comprising:

detecting the first client device at the location;

accessing the memory location of the first client device; and

causing display of the media content at the first client device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the detecting the first client device at the location includes:

receiving a request from the first client device, wherein the request includes an identification of the location.

10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the loading the media content at a memory location of the second client device includes:

identifying the location from among the historical location data associated with the second client device; and

loading the media content at the memory location of the second client device based on the historical location data of the second client device.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:

presenting the media content within a media collection at the first client device.

12. The system of claim 7 , wherein the historical location data comprises a data point that includes a timestamp, and the loading the media content associated with the geo-fence at the first client device based on the historical location data is based on the timestamp.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

associating media content with a geo-fence that encompasses a location;

accessing historical location data associated with a first client device, the historical location data comprising a plurality of data points that indicate one or more locations of the client device;

determining that a location from among the historical location data associated with the first client device identifies the location encompassed by the geo-fence;

identifying a social network connection associated with a user of the first client device, the social network connection associated with a second client device;

loading the media content associated with the geo-fence at a memory location of the first client device and the second client device based on the historical location data identifying the location encompassed by the geo-fence.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising:

detecting the first client device at the location;

accessing the memory location of the first client device; and

causing display of the media content at the first client device.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the detecting the first client device at the location includes:

receiving a request from the first client device, wherein the request includes an identification of the location.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the loading the media content at a memory location of the second client device includes:

identifying the location from among the historical location data associated with the second client device; and

loading the media content at the memory location of the second client device based on the historical location data of the second client device.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises:

presenting the media content within a media collection at the first client device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2023
From: AHMED, SAMIR; GAUR, AMIT; LUO, JEAN; WEN, YANG
To: SNAP INC.
Reel/Frame 063256/0907 →
Continuity (6)
Continuation 17965350 · Oct 13, 2022
Continuation 17223305 · Apr 6, 2021
Continuation 16702131 · Dec 3, 2019
Continuation 16404440 · May 6, 2019
Continuation 15912769 · Mar 6, 2018
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