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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2015
The Directv Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Dean Sakihama, El Segundo, CA (US);
Matthew T. Rasmussen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Harry Porudominsky, Westchester, CA (US);
Jackson Jarrell Pair, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A mobile device includes a location module that determines a location of the mobile device. A controller receives the location of the mobile device as determined by the location module, compares the location of the mobile device to a plurality of stored locations, and provides a notification to a user of the mobile device in response to a determination that the location of the mobile device is within a predetermined range of a first stored location of the plurality of stored locations. The plurality of stored locations correspond to contact devices associated with respective content, and the notification includes information about the respective content associated with a first contact device of the contact devices in the first stored location.