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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Creighton Mott, Los Altos, CA (US);
Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua, Mountain View, CA (US);
Colin Jon Taylor, Orinda, CA (US);
Scott Paul Robertson, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Brendel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nityananda Jayadevaprakash, San Jose, CA (US);
Kathy Wing Lam Ma, Markham, CA;
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments provide methods and systems for users and business owners to share content and/or links to visual elements of a place at a physical location, and, in response to a user device pointing at a tagged place, causing the content and/or links to the visual elements of the place to be presented on the user device. In some embodiments, content and links are tied to specific objects at a place based at least in part upon one of Global Positioning System (GPS) locations, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) orientations, compass data, or one or more visual matching algorithms. Once the content and links are attached to the specific objects of the place, they can be discovered by a user with a portable device pointing at the specific objects in the real world.