Some of the associated patents include US7967678 (Video game development factory) and US7828655 (Application shows user interface for geographic data in video game). NAVTEQ (now HERE) previously spent numerous countless USD on field groups and remote information to produce their core property (spatial information with 250+ attributes per road sector and millimeter level precision) around the world.
Kurt and team saw a new method to gather the data encouraging end-users with video game mechanics and non-monetary rewards to collect a big part of the information. Because then,, where it is quickly becoming the foundation for the information driving much of the self-governing automobile industry. Reference of the associated patents include US7628704 and US8070608.
There was not a system to quickly associate a user's place to demographic information on them. Their work has actually been throughout the industry and has actually opened a brand-new level of customization for advertising and overall experiences connected to a user's place. See patents: US7092964 and EP1376058B1. After digging in with some heavyweights in the video gaming industry, Kurt and team circled back on their innovation to use it to how CGI (and other) software application creates environments for motion pictures and tv.
Kurt's been credited as the "daddy of location-based games". His previous gaming work combined with his deep relationships in wireless allowed him to see where the industry was heading. His deal with early-stage gaming business to broaden LBG led him to be asked to be the Chairperson & Co-Founder of International Game Developers Association (IGDA)'s Mobile Video game Dev SIG.
Kurt signed up with the small team at Vitrue that had worked with Facebook to develop the APIs (with Buddy Media) that actually created, caused the production of Facebook Pages, and produced a new kind of interaction for brands worldwide. The Vitrue SRM jointly managed more than one billion social relationships in over 100 nations.
He later on owned all outside non-sales relationships, consisting of the business's deal with Adobe,, Mircosoft, and Oracle. Kurt and Jeremy Haile joined the brand-new Flashpoint at Georgia Tech mate and worked for the next two years to create a company (initially called Buzztastic). The two bootstrapped the business for almost 2 years.