System and method for location annotation employing time synchronization
First Claim
1. A process for associating location information to an electronic document, comprising the following process actions:
- inputting a record of an entity'"'"'s time-stamped location history;
inputting one or more target documents which are time-stamped, with the time-stamp being meaningfully related to at least one event of interest in the lifetime of the target document; and
associating said time of said event of interest of said one or more target documents with said entity'"'"'s location history to obtain the location where the event of interest occurred.
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Abstract
A system and method for identifying and/or annotating location for a desired event. This location annotation system and method presumes the existence of two components. The first is a location history (a record of a person, object, or other entity'"'"'s location history, with locations of the person, object or entity time-stamped so that the record contains location information for a particular time or times). The second component is a set of one or more documents which are time-stamped. The time-stamp is typically meaningfully related to a critical event in the lifetime of the document (e.g., creation time, modification time, and so forth). A document can be any electronic entity, regardless of its permanence or the means by which it is stored. Given the two discussed components, the location annotation system and method consists of a variety of methods for processing the time stamps of the document(s) to be annotated with the location history such that documents can be associated with the location at which critical events, or other events of interest, in the document lifetime took place.
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32 Claims
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1. A process for associating location information to an electronic document, comprising the following process actions:
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inputting a record of an entity'"'"'s time-stamped location history;
inputting one or more target documents which are time-stamped, with the time-stamp being meaningfully related to at least one event of interest in the lifetime of the target document; and
associating said time of said event of interest of said one or more target documents with said entity'"'"'s location history to obtain the location where the event of interest occurred. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system for associating location information with a document, the system comprising:
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a general purpose computing device; and
a computer program comprising program modules executable by the computing device, wherein the computing device is directed by the program modules of the computer program to, input a document set, said document set having one or more documents with time tags, and a record of at least one entity'"'"'s time-stamped location history, said location history including a set of time-location pairs and being related to an event occurring relative to a document in said document set, and;
associate a time of interest of said one or more documents in said document set with said at least one entity'"'"'s location history to obtain the location where at least one document event occurred. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for correlating location information with a document, said computer executable instructions comprising modules for:
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inputting a record of an entity'"'"'s time-stamped location history;
inputting one or more documents which are time-stamped, with each time-stamp being meaningfully related to an event of interest in the lifetime of the document; and
associating said time of said event of interest of said one or more documents with said entity'"'"'s location history to obtain the location where the event of interest occurred. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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