MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611060551 A) filed by Manipal University Jaipur on May 13, 2026, for A Nearby News & Alert System (nnas).
Inventors include Shivendra Dubey; Dr. Ankur Pandey; Md Nazish Qarnain; and Sakshi Dubey.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a nearby news and alert system for real-time proximity-based community communication and local safety awareness. The system comprises a user interface module for receiving event reports, a geolocation module for determining real-time latitude and longitude coordinates associated with users, a backend server for processing event data, a cloud database for storing geo-tagged event reports together with images, captions, timestamps, and alert information, a map visualization engine for displaying nearby event reports on a digital map according to user proximity, a real-time synchronization module for transmitting updated alerts substantially in real time to nearby users, and an alert categorization module for classifying reports into accident, hazard, road issue, and general news categories. The system enables proximity-based filtering of event reports within a predefined geographical radius, thereby providing an organized location-based communication and community safety network.
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