SmartAddress®
Technology
An Address for Everything®
For years we have been focused on the needs of a truly compelling local search and navigation user experience as the Internet has morphed from an information utility to an advertising media paradigm. We have viewed the world in billions of little pieces surrounding micro-locations and focused on the needs of users to find, learn about, visit, interact and share with those locations. Autonomous vehicles, drones, robot, and other devices are going to change the world of transportation and delivery, but there is a critical need for usability, interoperability, and more granular micro-location addressing and information.
We believe our patented technology and micro-location services platform will ultimately become a single, universal solution for digitizing and sharing micro-locations and micro-location information and services across all platforms and services. The SmartAddress technology will make it substantially easier to identify, access information, navigate to and interact with millions of micro-locations in and around real estate properties, projects, and buildings. This will be immediately helpful today for everyone, but it is a current void and criticl need for the future of autonomous vehicles and devices.
Our patented SmartAddress®
AddressPlus®, and MicroMap™ technologies are designed to fill a critical void in the micro-location addressing and information infrastructure that is necessary for autonomous vehicles, drones, and devices.
With over 20 patents issued in the area of mobile, local search and micro-location technologies since our first filing in 1996 and terms extending until at least 2032, we intend to work with all mapping and location service providers to enable a universal cross-service micro-location referencing system that will similar to the DNS for domain names and telephones number for telephones.
Here is a quick summary of our key patent families:
1996 Family- Real-Time Unified Geographic Database (RUGD™) and clearinghouse that is both centralized and disaggregated yet connected in a single system. See U.S. Pat. No. 8,935,220
2010 Family -- Automatically creating a single string, human readable yet database and device friendly shortcode for any legacy street or postal address, with emphasis on sub-parcel, building micro-locations. See U.S. Pat. No. 9,372,934
2012 Family -- Permission-based, privacy centric SmartAddress® system for transforming phone numbers, domain name/URLs, social media handles, email addresses, and biometric attributes into micro-location identifiers and providing owners of such SmartAddress IDs real-time control over if, when, how and who can access what micro-location information through the SmartAddress ID and system. See U.S. Pat. No. 9,678,986
Our goal is to develop and deploy SmartPoint's patented technologies, together with other mapping and micro-location services companies to enable the next and future generations of micro-location services, particularly micro-and inbuilding navigation by autonomous vehicles and devices like robotics and drones.
The SmartPoint® Team
Lee Hancock
Lee is a serial inventor and technology entrepreneur with particular emphasis on location information delivered over mobile devices. He was the founder of go2, which launched the world’s first and dominant mobile, local directory, search and information service for the first several years of the mobile web, ultimately serving billions of page views of mobile, local search results. While at go2 Lee raised several rounds of institutional venture capital and/or strategic financings, obtained dozens of the biggest brands in the world and established key strategic alliances with leading technology companies and the U.S. based wireless carriers.
Lee was also a co-founder of inBuilding Systems Corp., and was corporate and finance partner with two major law firms, including Allen Matkins, a major California law firm, where he served as the chair of the corporate law department. Lee is also a CPA, a member of YPO/WPO, and a member of Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame