System and method for categorizing information into zones to determine delivery patterns

• US 20060084430A1
• Filed: 10/14/2004
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eric M. Ng
• Original Assignee: Eric M. Ng
• Inventors: Ng, Eric M.
• Application Number:
  US10/964,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20060084430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/426.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method of exchanging information that can be specific to a person and their current location. The method uses the location of a wireless device held by a stakeholder, i.e. a person that is related to the information, and routes information to the zone they are in. The portable wireless device is used to track the location of the stakeholder, and also provides methods for updating relevant information while the stakeholder is located in a specific zone.

Claims

1. A system for correlating data into W-LAN zones comprising:

a W-LAN access point located within each of said zones;

a data correlation module for categorizing information into related W-LAN zones; and

a monitoring process actively connected to each of the W-LAN zones, said monitoring module tracking activity within each of the said zones.

2. A system of claim 1 further comprising a data delivery module to transmit the categorized data by utilizing said W-LAN access points.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the data delivery module can receive categorized data from a W-LAN access point and forward it to another W-LAN access point.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a database of categorized data that is also related to specific stakeholders of the data.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the activity being detected is the arrival and departure of wireless devices into the said zones.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the transmission of the categorized information is automatic when a stakeholder of the data enters the said zone.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the data is automatically updated to the stakeholder when the categorized information changes and the stakeholder is still in the related W-LAN zone.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the data correlation module uses W-LAN installation locations to categorize the original data to be delivered to the said stakeholders.