Mobile communication device with location histories configured to link individual member to vendor members of network
View Patent ↗A personalized way to digitally record a person's physical activities over time serves web searching, business advertising, nostalgia, security and object tracing purposes. The chronological digital history of the person's physical presence over a time includes (i) digital network entries from other members who hold their portable wireless short range device near the person's device and transmit a URL or other key data and (ii) digital member entries such a digital photograph of a store sign. The digital network entries and digital member entries are automatically transmitted to a database located on a telecommunications network at a time of entry. Advertisers can transmit to members when members enter premises of advertiser's store. Upon sign-up online, the authentication data uniquely associated with an account is provided and key data they want to transmit is associated with the account. Digital histories can be used to improve web searching and networking opportunities.
1. A handheld mobile communication device configured for communication with at least one processing system to create and use location histories on the device that are configured to link an individual member of a member network to a plurality of vendor members of the network, the device comprising software,
the software for configuring the device to, upon instances of a physical encounter between the individual member who is mobile and has an account associated with a URL and a vendor member from among the plurality of vendor members at a physical premises of the vendor member, transmit to, or generate on, the at least one processing system a location history entry of the physical encounter in at least the account of the individual member, that includes (i) key data of, and a location of, the vendor member, and (ii) a time of the physical encounter, the key data being the URL of the vendor member or data associated with the URL of the vendor member, the software configured to interact with a positioning system that identifies a location of the device, the software configured to accumulate a location history from the location history entries,
the software also for maintaining a viewable physical encounter history on the device that, upon logging in to the individual member's account, is searchable by the time, by the URL or data associated with the URL of the vendor member, and by the location of the vendor member, the physical encounter history including key data from multiple vendor members of the plurality and includes in at least one mode a visual timeline of physical encounters of the individual member,
the key data associated with the account of the individual member before the physical encounter between the individual member and the vendor member,
wherein the individual member's account is configured to allow the physical encounter history to be accumulated from the device or from multiple such devices of the individual member over time,
wherein the location history is configured to include advertisements from the plurality of vendor members, wherein the content of the advertisements comprise the key data of particular vendor members of the plurality of vendor members,
wherein the advertisements are clickable such that when the individual member clicks on a particular advertisement of a particular vendor member of the plurality, the individual member is taken by the at least one processing system to a web site of the particular vendor member.