Method, device arrangement, terminal device of a cellular network and a program application in the terminal device for giving a location-based alert
First Claim
1. A method for giving an alert to a user of a terminal device of a cellular network about an object that interests the user, in which method the user searches for interesting objects from information networks by means of a network browser saves the information of the object as a bookmark in a personal bookmark archive, which information also comprises a piece of information indicating the geographical location of the object, and where the piece of information indicating the geographical location of the object is used as an alert criterion in the terminal device.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a device arrangement utilizing the method and a mobile terminal device (14) belonging to the device arrangement, in which method for giving an alert to the user of a cellular network terminal device (14), the user at first searches for interesting objects from the information networks (12) by means of a network browser in the data processing device (11), and after that saves the linking information of the found object as a bookmark into the personal bookmark archive (13). The bookmark archive can be located either in the cellular network terminal device (14), or in some data processing device, such as a server, to which the terminal device (14) can establish a data transfer connection. The information in the bookmark archive (13) is used for giving an alert to the mobile terminal device (14) about an object that interests the user.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for giving an alert to a user of a terminal device of a cellular network about an object that interests the user, in which method
the user searches for interesting objects from information networks by means of a network browser saves the information of the object as a bookmark in a personal bookmark archive, which information also comprises a piece of information indicating the geographical location of the object, and where the piece of information indicating the geographical location of the object is used as an alert criterion in the terminal device.
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8. A device arrangement for giving an alert to a user of a terminal device of a cellular network, the device arrangement comprising
a data processing device with a network browser for searching for objects that interest the user from information networks a user-specific electronic bookmark archive for saving linking information of the objects the user has found from the information network as bookmarks, which linking information comprises also a piece of information indicating the geographical location of the object, which is arranged to be used as an alert criterion in the terminal device, and a mobile terminal device of a cellular network, to which bookmarks of the bookmark archive can be transferred for giving an alert of an interesting object.
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14. A terminal device of a cellular network,
which comprises means for transmitting and receiving messages, a control unit, a memory and a user interface, which is arranged to save in its memory a bookmark of an object that interests the user and a piece of information indicating the geographical location of the object associated with the bookmark, which piece of information has been arranged to be used in the terminal device as a criterion for alerting the user.
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22. A computer program saved in a terminal device of a cellular network comprising:
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computer readable code means for saving a bookmark in a bookmark archive, which bookmark also comprises a piece of information indicating the geographical location of the bookmark, computer readable code means for processing a location information received by the terminal device, and computer readable code means for giving an alert on the basis of the geographical location contained by such a bookmark which on the basis of the location information available to the terminal device can be reached by a user of the terminal device.
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