Mobile LBS patent issues on an appropriate day.

location based services


REVOLUTION expands mobile searching, commerce, and marketing. Starting with real estate....On the 4th of July, the United States patent office granted a patent for mobile location-based services (LBS) that includes location-activated advertising in front of buildings.The United States Patent Office issued patent number 7,072,665 to Brad and Eric Blumberg, the founders of Smarter Agent® (see http://www.smarteragent.com/).This further strengthens the patent portfolio of the entrepreneur brother-duo as they now hold three patents relating to mobile LBS and global positioning system (GPS) triggered real estate and place-based searching, commerce and advertising.Patents 6,385,541 and 6,496,776 were issued to the Blumbergs in 2002 and cover LBS triggered searching for property-centric information/commerce.
# posted by Brad @ Thursday, July 06, 2006