Method and system for credential-based pedestrian routing

• US 10,422,646 B1
• Filed: 10/30/2018
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mapsted Corp.
• Original Assignee: Mapsted Corp.
• Inventors: Ohab, Henry L., Nagpal, Paramvir Singh, Hamidifar, Saeedeh
• Primary Examiner(s): Badii, Behrang
• Application Number:
  US16/174,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20190316911A1
• Time in Patent Office: 329 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/00 Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells B60L58/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/02523 Details of interaction of receiver with radio-map
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/50 Monitoring users, programs or devices to maintain the integrity of platforms, e.g. of processors, firmware or operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 99/00 : Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 : the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/1149 : Arrangements for indoor wireless networking of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 : using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 : based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 : wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 : Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 : for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 : Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method and a system of providing, for display at a mobile computing device, a pedestrian route associated with an indoor facility. The method comprises localizing the mobile computing device at a first position of the indoor facility, determining a credential associated with the mobile computing device, and communicating, for display at the mobile computing device, the pedestrian route from the first position to at least a second position of the indoor facility, the pedestrian route determined at least partly based on the credential.

Claims

1. A method of providing, for display at a mobile computing device, a pedestrian route associated with an indoor facility, the method comprising:

obtaining a unique identifier of the mobile computing device;

comparing the unique identifier of the mobile computing device with a database to determine a credential associated with the mobile computing device, the database comprising credentials assigned to a set of mobile devices, each credential having trajectory information associated with it, based on a user attribute associated with the mobile device; and

communicating, for display at the mobile computing device, the pedestrian route from a first position of the mobile computing device in the indoor facility to a second position in the indoor facility, the pedestrian route determined at least partly based on the trajectory information associated with the credential.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises associating, based on the user attribute, the credential with the mobile computing device upon installing a pedestrian navigation application in a memory of mobile computing device, wherein the credential is subsequently used for navigating a user of the mobile computing device in the indoor facility.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the user attribute is at least one of a security level, an entitlement level, a familiarity with the indoor facility, and a physical capability of a user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the indoor facility includes multiple floors, the first position is situated on a first of the multiple floors, and the second position is situated on a second floor of the multiple floors, and wherein the credential pertains to a physical handicap pedestrian route, and the pedestrian route from the first position to the second position avoids one of a set of stairs and an escalator within the indoor facility.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the credential is encoded in at least one of a barcode symbol and a text string received at the mobile device via one of an email and a text message.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method comprises localizing the mobile computing device to the first position, based on fingerprint data associated with the indoor facility.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the credential as configured is temporally-dependent.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the credential is operable only for at least one of a predetermined start time, a predetermined duration, and a predetermined date.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises accumulating route activity data of mobile computing devices traversing the indoor facility in the database, the trajectory information corresponding to the credential including the route activity data.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the credential is a first credential, and the first credential changes to a second credential based on occurrence of a temporal condition.

15. The server computing system of claim 1 wherein the user attribute is at least one of a security level, an entitlement level, a familiarity with the indoor facility, and a physical capability of a user.

11. A server computing system providing, for display at a mobile computing device, a pedestrian route associated with an indoor facility, the server computing system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing a set of instructions, the instructions executable in the processor to;

obtain a unique identifier of the mobile computing device;

compare the unique identifier of the mobile computing device with a database to determine a credential associated with the mobile computing device, the database comprising credentials assigned to a set of mobile devices, each credential having trajectory information associated with it, based on a user attribute associated with the mobile device; and

communicate, for display at the mobile computing device, the pedestrian route from a first position of the mobile computing device in the indoor facility to a second position in the indoor facility, the pedestrian route determined at least partly based on the trajectory information associated with the credential.

12. The server computing system of claim 11 wherein the processor is to associate, based on the user attribute, the credential with the mobile computing device upon installing a pedestrian navigation application in a memory of mobile computing device, wherein the credential is subsequently used for navigating a user of the mobile computing device in the indoor facility.

13. The server computing system of claim 11 wherein the indoor facility includes multiple floors, the first position is situated on a first of the multiple floors, and the second position is situated on a second floor of the multiple floors, and wherein the credential pertains to a physical handicap pedestrian route, and the pedestrian route from the first position to the at least a second position avoids one of a set of stairs and an escalator within the indoor facility.

14. The server computing system of claim 11 wherein the credential is encoded in at least one of a barcode symbol and a text string received at the mobile device via one of an email and a text message.

16. The server computing system of claim 11 wherein the processor is localize the mobile computing device to the first position, based on fingerprint data associated with the indoor facility.

17. The server computing system of claim 11 wherein the credential as configured is temporally-dependent, and wherein the credential is operable only for at least one of a predetermined start time, a predetermined duration, and a predetermined date.

18. The server computing system of claim 11, wherein the processor is to accumulate route activity data of mobile computing devices traversing the indoor facility in the database, the trajectory information corresponding to the credential including the route activity data.

19. The server computing system of claim 11 wherein the credential is a first credential, and the first credential changes to a second credential based on occurrence of a temporal condition.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable in a processor of a computing device, the instructions when executed causing the processor to perform operations comprising:

obtain a unique identifier of the mobile computing device;

compare the unique identifier of the mobile computing device with a database to determine a credential associated with the mobile computing device, the database comprising credentials assigned to a set of mobile devices, each credential having trajectory information associated with it, based on a user attribute associated with the mobile device; and

communicate, for display at the mobile computing device, the pedestrian route from a first position of the mobile computing device in the indoor facility to a second position in the indoor facility, the pedestrian route determined at least partly based on the trajectory information associated with the credential.