US 12,308,892 B2
Methods and systems for location-based audio messaging
Minkyung Kim, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US); Harry J. Laplanche, Gloucester, MA (US); Mark Weinberger, New York, NY (US); and Anthony Gil Aguila, Princeton, NJ (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/409,497.
Prior Publication US 2023/0054838 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC H04B 11/00 (2013.01) [H04W 4/029 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a computing system, an audio message generated by a first device;
determining, by the computing system, a physical location associated with the audio message;
identifying, by the computing system, a target recipient of the audio message;
identifying, by the computing system, a second device associated with the target recipient, the identifying the second device comprising:
identifying a location of the target recipient at a particular time by receiving an identification verification of the target recipient at an access point at the location, and
identifying a device at the location at the particular time as the second device;
providing, by the computing system and based on a proximity of the second device to the physical location, the audio message to the second device;
abstaining from providing, by the computing system, the audio message to a third device within the proximity to the physical location but not associated with the target recipient; and
determining, by the computing system, a priority of the audio message relative to an additional audio message that is associated with the physical location and the target recipient, wherein the providing the audio message to the second device is further based on the priority and the determining the priority comprises assigning the audio message with a higher priority than the additional audio message based on the target recipient of the audio message being indicated by an identifier specific to the target recipient and the target recipient of the additional audio message being indicated by a role of the target recipient.