Twenty-four architectural concepts, mapped one page at a time.
Each topic below has its own dedicated page. Every page uses a three-column structure — Patent Architecture, Publicly Described Foursquare Capability, and Strategic Commentary — framed as observed architectural relationships between the two systems.
Consumer Device Monitoring
How consumer devices participate in a location-aware architecture through continuous or event-based signal collection.
Venue Intelligence
Structured representation of physical places used to interpret consumer signals in a retail context.
Retail Location Monitoring
Sustained observation of retail venues as consumers move through the physical environment.
Venue and Chain Geofencing
Programmatic geographic boundaries defined around venues and multi-venue chains.
User-linked Geofence Behaviour
Association between individual consumer devices and geofence evaluation outcomes.
Historical Consumer Information
Use of previously observed consumer behaviour as an input to present-time decisions.
Audience Segmentation
Grouping consumers by behavioural or contextual attributes to support downstream selection.
Behaviour Analysis
Interpretation of movement and visit patterns into higher-level signals.
Consumer Relevance
Determination of whether a specific communication is relevant to a specific consumer.
Notification Matching
Selection of the appropriate message from a set of candidate communications.
Target Selection
Identification of which consumers should participate in a given retail interaction.
Retail Criteria
Retailer-authored rules that condition when engagement should occur.
Location Validation
Confirmation that observed location signals meet the required conditions.
Communication Triggering
Automatic initiation of a message once conditions are satisfied.
Time-based Logic
Use of temporal conditions alongside location and consumer information.
Retail Campaign Architecture
The end-to-end structure that turns configuration into consumer-facing outcomes.
Automatic Event Generation
System-generated events emitted without direct user action.
Commercial Messaging
Delivery of messages carrying commercial intent to consumer devices.
Store Visit Intelligence
Insight generated from observed visits to retail venues.
Measurement
Quantification of downstream outcomes tied to messaging and visits.
Attribution
Connecting observed outcomes back to specific communications or campaigns.
Location Analytics
Aggregated insight derived from location signals across the consumer base.
Movement Analysis
Interpretation of consumer trajectories over time and space.
API Integration
Programmatic surfaces that expose the architecture to external systems.
Data Flows
The overall movement of information between architecture components.