PROXIMITY-BASED, TEMPORALLY-LIMITED ONE-TO-MANY AND ONE-TO-ONE HYPERLOCAL MESSAGING OF LOCATION- AND SEMANTICALLY-AWARE CONTENT OBJECTS BETWEEN INTERNET-ENABLED DEVICES

摘要

System and method for enabling proximity-based, temporally-limited broadcasting (one-to-many) and direct (one-to-one) hyperlocal messaging of semantically-aware content for both fixed and mobile internet-enabled, location-aware computing devices in which internet-enabled devices are able to send broadcasts or individually-directed content objects containing semantically-aware content and where the content objects are able to be received only by users of the same system within a certain proximate temporal and spatial area to the sending device. By means of assigning each content object a valid reception area and an associated time validity the platform enforces that the combination of the temporal and spatial area variables results in a hyperlocal messaging thus any particular content object has the property that it can only be seen within a certain hyperlocal area. Furthermore each transmitted content object has a semantic categorisation. The system platform can also perform semantic introspection on all the content objects within a hyperlocal area and via means of a rule set create new content objects for broadcast that have utility to the users of that hyperlocal space.