ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,283, issued on March 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Content request by location" was invented by Gadi Zimerman (Hod-HaSharon, Israel) and Ido Sadeh (Ramat-Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining media content of an event, comprising: identifying a real-life event and, a time of said real-life event a geographic location of the real-life event; identifying a subset of a plurality of client terminals of users located in proximity to the geographic location of the real-life event at said time of said real-life event; sending a message to the subset of client terminals containing a reques...