Method for providing a mobile location based information service

• US 10,015,631 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2015
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Martin Cudzilo
• Original Assignee: Martin Cudzilo
• Inventors: Cudzilo, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US15/321,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20170164150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,105 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0294 Trajectory determination or predictive filtering, e.g. target tracking or Kalman filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A location-based service, and in particular location-based services involving mobile devices. With the disclosed method it is possible to provide individual information at a certain location to individual users, wherein the information may be based on a location profile that may be updated depending on inputs of the user itself or other users.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, for providing a mobile location based information service comprising the following steps, in the following sequence:

a) providing at least one server operably connectable to at least one mobile device and at least one further device;

b) at the server, providing at least one user profile the user profile comprises at least a total amount of time of the user available at a certain date and time and at least one location profile, the location profile containing information relating to at least one geographic location comprising tasks associated with a certain location and a point in time to carry out at least one of the tasks;

c) providing at least one mobile device comprising a location determining unit for determining a current location of the mobile device;

d) at the least one mobile device, sending current location data and/or first identification data of the at least one mobile device to the server;

e) at the server, based on the location data and/or the first identification data and the date and time and a location profile associated with the location data and/or a location profile associated with a further location generating at least first instructing data, wherein the instructing data comprises at least one task, advise, instruction and/or information and preferably a due date and time, an expected time for completion and/or a start date and time;

f) at the server, sending first instructing data to the at least one mobile device and causing the at least one mobile device to display at least one representation, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output related to said first instructing data;

g) at the at least one mobile device, detecting an input representative for an acceptance, in particular a partly acceptance, or a denial answer in response to the displayed representation, the provided audio output and/or the provided haptic output, of said first instructing data and sending the acceptance, in particular the partly acceptance, or the denial answer and the first identification data to the first server; and

h) at the server, in response to the acceptance, in particular the partly acceptance or the denial answer updating the location profile, and preferably based on the location data, the first identification data, the date and time and the updated location profile associate with the location data generating at least second instructing data and sending said at least second instructing data to the at least one mobile device.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the steps, after step g)

i) at the server, waiting for the acceptance, in particular the partly acceptance or the denial answer from the mobile device for a defined period of time, and in case of not receiving said answer sending a first reminder data to the mobile device and causing the at least one mobile device to display at least one representation, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output of said first reminder data;

j) at the server, waiting for said answer for a further defined period of time, and in case of not receiving said answer after said further defined period of time sending a second reminder data to the mobile device and causing the at least one mobile device t to display at least one representation, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output of said second reminder data; and

/or

k) at the server, waiting for said answer for a further defined period of time, and in case of not receiving said answer after said further defined period of time updating the location profile and/or the user based on a denial answer, and in particular based on the updated location profile, at the sending second instructing data to a at least a second mobile device and/or to a further electronic device.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location profile comprises the time needed to complete a task and/or at least one floorplan of at least one building, in particular comprising the location of objects, in particular furniture, within the building, in particular a three dimensional and/or two-dimensional floorplan.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user profile comprises at least a total amount of time of the user available at a certain date and time at a certain location, technical skills of a user, a score of the user and/or physical extends of the user and/or the location of a mobile device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the instructing data comprises at least one task, advise, instruction and/or information and preferably a due date and time, an expected time for completion and/or a start date and time in form of a text, a graphical representation, a video and/or an audio representation.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least two mobile devices sending first and second location data and first and at least second identification data for identifying the first and the at least the second mobile device to the first server, at the server, based on the first and second location data, the first identification data and at least the second identification data, the date and time and the location profile associate with the location data generating first and at least second instructing data and sending first instructing data to the first mobile device and causing the first device to display, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output, at least one representation related to said first instructing data and sending at least the second instructing data to the at least one second mobile device and causing the at least one second mobile device to display, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output, at least one representation related to said at least one second instructing data, and in response to the acceptance, in particular the partly acceptance or the denial answer from the first and the at least one second mobile device updating the location profile.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps, in particular after or parallel to step e)

l) determining the total amount of time for completion of the tasks associated the location profile on a certain date and time;

m) requesting the available total time on a certain date and time from the at least one user profile from the at least one mobile device and in particular further mobile devices at different and/or the same location as the first mobile device; and

n) generating the first instructing data and in case further instructing data based on the said total amount of time for completion of the task and said available total time of the user profile(s).

8. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the steps, in particular parallel to step e)

o) at the server, generating the first instructing data based on the location of the at least one mobile device within a building, a location in outside a building, a ship, a car, a train and/or a plane, in particular based on a certain room of said building, and in particular

p) sending further instructing data to the at least one mobile device and causing the at least one mobile device to display, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output, at least one representation related to said first instructing data, wherein the further instructing data comprises the location information for the user to move next.

9. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the steps, in particular parallel to step f)

q) at the at least one mobile device, displaying the first instructing data with a representation of a current view of the user of the at least one mobile device as augmented reality, and in particular

r) displaying the first instructing data, in particular party, next to, on the top of and/or at the objects.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps, in particular after or parallel to step e)

s) at the server, based on the location data, the first identification data, at least the information data of at least a further mobile device, the date and time and the location profile associate with the location data generating first instructing data and at least second instructing data;

and

t) sending first instructing data to the first mobile device and second instructing data to the at least one further mobile device and causing the first mobile device to display, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output, at least one

representation related to said first instructing data and causing the at least on further mobile device to display, to provide an audio output and/or a haptic output, at least one representation related to said second instructing data.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein acceptance, partly acceptance or denial answers are received by the server, sending further instructing data to the at least one mobile device comprising a new location the user shall move to.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein at a least one further mobile device, detecting an input representative for the quality of completion of a task of at least the first user and sending data representative for said input to the first server, wherein at the first server an analysis engine updates the score of the user profile of at least the first user.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein informing the user in case of the score exceeds or falls below a predefined value, wherein in particular the analysis engine determining an overall score of all users receiving instructing data at a certain location profile and informing the said users if the overall score exceeds or falls below a predefined value, in particular informing each user about each single score of each of said users.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the analysis engine determines the score using the acceptance, in particular the partly acceptance or the denial answers of a user as a further parameter.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein a further user may update the location profile with updating data via a further mobile device, wherein said updating data may comprise a task, an information, a certain location, a due date and

time, a time stamp and a further identification data of the further user and/or the further mobile device, in particular form of a text, a photo and/or a video.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein at the server and/or at the mobile device a direction determination device is provided, wherein the direction determination device is providing instructing data in form directing the user to a certain location.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein providing the mobile device comprising a storage device for storing instructing data, user profiles and/or location profiles, wherein the storage device is selected from the group consisting of:

an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, a hard disk drive, a portable nonvolatile memory device, a continuous powered volatile memory device, a memory card, a remote database, a local database, and a compact disc.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location

determination unit further comprises a GPS receiver which receives GPS satellite signals and determines the current location of the user.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining the current position of the user is accomplished using at least one direction determination methodology selected from the group consisting of:

Global Positioning System, distance measurement equipment, time and frequency based changes in signals, radio frequency triangulation and intersection of radio signals with radials.