US 11,876,615 B2
Location-based content sharing via tethering
Michael E. Madden, III, San Diego, CA (US); Jesse William Snyder, San Diego, CA (US); Jake Tyler Fyfe, Los Angeles, CA (US); John Wiacek, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Matthew W. Geer, Escondido, CA (US)
Assigned to NantG Mobile, LLC, Culver City, CA (US)
Filed by NantG Mobile, LLC, Culver City, CA (US)
Filed on May 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/313,851.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/021,282, filed on May 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0352131 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 67/04 (2022.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01); H04L 67/104 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/04 (2013.01) [H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for sharing digital content, the system comprising:
one or more computer digital content servers;
a first computing device in communication with the one or more computer digital content servers; and
a second computing device in communication with the first computing device and/or the one or more computer digital content servers, the second computing device remote from the first computing device,
wherein the one or more computer digital content servers are configured to provide access of shareable digital content to the first computing device,
wherein the shareable digital content includes augmented reality content bound to a first halo that moves and remains centered on the first computing device as the first computing device moves and that dynamically changes shape and/or size in real time based on geographic features including hills, mountains, rivers, lakes, ponds, oceans, terrain gradients, buildings, bridges, overpasses, streets, and pedestrian walks ways and based on a second halo associated with a third computing device to prevent overlapping with the second halo associated with the third computing device, and wherein the first computing device and the second computing device are each configured to display a map including the first halo,
wherein the first computing device, the second computing device, and/or the one or more computer digital content servers are configured to instantiate a tethering object associated with the shareable digital content, the tethering object including a first endpoint at the first computing device and a second endpoint at the second computing device,
wherein the second computing device is associated with a user having a virtual presence movable into and out of the first halo and
wherein the second computing device is configured to receive the augmented reality content, via the tethering object, at the second endpoint when the second computing device is physically located outside the first halo, and only if the movable virtual presence of the user of the second computing device enters and remains within the first halo.