System and method for providing mobile location-relevant commerce
CA 2359957 A1 · Owner: @Road, Inc. · Inventors: Fan, Rodric C.; Sandhu, Kulbir S.; Puranik, Shirish
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method for facilitating a commercial transaction based on a current location of a mobile customer and a mobile merchant provides opportunity for commercial transaction not previously possible. In one application the method establishes a wireless link between a server on a wide-area network and mobile customer, and obtains from the mobile customer a current location by reading automatically from a positioning device associated and located with said customer. Based on the current location so obtained the, server matches the mobile customer as one party of the, commercial transaction with one or more business concern, within a predetermined distance from the current location so that the …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 25, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 25, 2021.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 25, 2023.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.