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Method and system for automatically adjusting location based system information in a mobile computer

  • US 20040192332A1
  • Filed: 07/11/2002
  • Published: 09/30/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for automatically adjusting location based system information in a mobile computer upon use thereof at a location different than its place of usual Internet connection, comprising:

  • upon connection to a network including the Internet, polling a server to find an IP address as seen by the Internet for said computer;

    searching for an entry in a table, in said computer, containing said IP address from the Internet;

    if no entry is found, adding a table entry containing a mapping of said IP address from the Internet with an actual IP address of said computer;

    prompting a user to supply a time zone, correlated to a present geographic location, for inclusion in said table entry; and

    adjusting location based system information in said computer using said time zone correlated to said IP address from the Internet and said computer IP address.

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