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Location based personal organizer

  • US 10,122,845 B2
  • Filed: 03/11/2008
  • Issued: 11/06/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing location-based notifications using a communicable mobile device equipped with an on-board GPS device and a server having access to a geo-code database, the geo-code database storing contact information linked to geographical locations such that each set of GPS coordinates corresponding to a geographical location is mapped to a set of contact information corresponding to the geographical location, the mobile device communicatively coupled to the server, the mobile device storing a contact list including one or more geo-based contact entries each containing a set of contact fields including a GPS coordinate field storing a set of GPS coordinate values corresponding to a geographical location, the method comprising:

  • the mobile device, in setting up a contact entry in the contact list, receiving at least a value for at least a first contact field of the contact entry from a first input means of the mobile device;

    the mobile device sending to the sever the first contact field and the inputted value for the first contact field;

    the mobile device receiving from the server respective values for at least a subset of the remaining contact fields of the contact entry retrieved from the geo-code database, such that upon the receiving from the server, the set of GPS coordinate values for the GPS coordinate field of the contact entry and a value for at least one other contact field of the contact entry are stored in the contact entry;

    the mobile device receiving description of a task linked to the contact entry from a second input means of the mobile device;

    the mobile device displaying the task description so as to notify of potential execution of the task when a set of contemporaneous GPS coordinates of the mobile device corresponding to the contemporaneous geographical location of the mobile device, as captured by the on-board GPS device, correspond to the stored set of GPS coordinate values for the GPS coordinate field of the contact entry.

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