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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2008
Jeffrey Sweeney, Olathe, KS (US);
Kelsyn Rooks, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jeffrey Sweeney, Olathe, KS (US);
Kelsyn Rooks, Overland Park, KS (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system and a method for providing location-based services to consumers of a shopping facility. In one embodiment, a consumer creates a user account, user profile, and registers one or mobile devices. The system monitors for the presence of the registered mobile devices within one or more shopping facilities. The system transmits advertising material corresponding to the user created profile to a detected registered mobile device in response to the registered mobile device being within a specified range of a store associated with the user created profile.