TAG BASED FILTERING ON GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS, DIGITAL ASSETS, MESSAGES, AND ANONYMOUS USER PROFILES

摘要

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing region monitoring using tag matching to more closely match the monitored regions to a user's preference. A user enters user tags of interest, which are persisted to the region monitoring web server. The web server returns the closest regions having a region tag matching user tag first and the closest regions without matching tags secondary. An application at the mobile device then performs region monitoring of the identified closest region(s). When the mobile device enters a monitored region, it reports this event to the web server. The web server then determines whether any messages and/or assets associated with the region have matching message tags or asset tags and returns such messages or assets to the mobile device.

主权项

1. A method of performing region monitoring at a mobile device, comprising:
receiving a user tag for region monitoring; transmitting the user tag to a web server; requesting, from the web server, a number of closest regions to be monitored relative to a current location of the mobile device; receiving the closest regions from the web server, the closest regions having an associated region tag matching the user tag, wherein closest regions having an associated matching tag are returned with a first priority and closest regions without a matching tag are returned with a secondary priority; and performing region monitoring of the received region.