Method for controlling on the basis of case based tracking forecasts

• US 20060282496A1
• Filed: 04/27/2004
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Leiber, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 8,069,203 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method for controlling digitally storable events on a computer system that can be accessed via the Internet, the events being predefinable by a user, includes receiving movement information of a user. Route information is recorded digitally in a user-specific manner so as to save a starting point and an end point. A digitally stored event is associated user-specifically with at least one item of the route information that determines a digitally controlled process. The route information is used at an early point in time to determine which of a plurality of routes is being traveled so as to determine the digitally stored event and start the digitally controlled process.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A method for controlling digitally storable events on a computer system that can be accessed via the Internet, the events being predefinable by a user, the method comprising:

receiving movement information of a user;

recording route information digitally in a user-specific manner so as to save a starting point and an end point;

associating a digitally stored event, user-specifically, with at least one item of the route information that determines a digitally controlled process; and

using the route information to determine which of a plurality of routes is being traveled so as to determine the digitally stored event and start the digitally controlled process.

14. The method as recited in claim 13 further comprising digitally saving respective times of day and a recording frequency corresponding to the recording of the route information.

15. The method as recited in claim 13 further comprising transmitting the movement information to a computer system via GPS using a mobile terminal device.

16. The method as recited in claim 13 further comprising tracking the mobile terminal device by ground stations using geographic coordinates and then transmitting the geographic coordinates.

17. The method as recited in claim 13 further comprising:

carrying out, using information previously collected and stored, statistical computations so as to recognize at the early point in time the route being traveled; and

determining a tracking interval using the information from the past.

18. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the digitally controlled process includes at least one of a triggering of a call, a triggering of an MMS, a triggering of an SMS, a triggering of an e-mail message, and a starting of a user-defined and linked program so as to transmit at least one of an analyzed product information offered in the vicinity of a route, a route optimization, and a traffic jam report.

19. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the digitally controlled process includes controlling at least one of a heating or air-conditioning system at the starting point and/or the end point, a telephone system, and a home-security system.

20. The method as recited in claim 19 wherein the telephone system includes at least one of a call forwarding and an answering machine.

21. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the recording is performed by entering the route information manually or by recording the route information automatically during a movement of the user, the automatic recording being controllable by the user.

22. The method as recited in claim 13 further comprising controlling at least one of a user entry for the digitally stored event, a localization control, and the route information via a web/WAP interface.

23. The method as recited in claim 13 further comprising using a cell phone number of a user as an identification for the route information so as to enable digital data management.

24. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the recording route information includes storing geographic intermediate points, a tracking interval of the intermediate points being manually or automatically specifiable, and further comprising designating an intermediate point as the end point when a certain period of time of geographic inactivity has been exceeded.

25. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the using the route information is performed at an early point in time.

31. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the using the route information is performed at an early point in time.

26. A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable process steps operative to perform a method for controlling digitally storable events on a computer system that can be accessed via the Internet, the events being predefinable by a user, the method comprising:

receiving movement information of a user;

recording route information digitally in a user-specific manner so as to save a starting point and an end point;

associating a digitally stored event, user-specifically, with at least one item of route information that determines a digitally controlled process; and

using the route information to determine which of a plurality of routes is being traveled so as to determine the digitally stored event and start the digitally controlled process.

27. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 26 wherein the method further comprises transmitting the movement information to a computer system via GPS using a mobile terminal device.

28. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 26 wherein the method further comprises digitally saving respective times of day and a recording frequency corresponding to the recording route information.

29. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 26 wherein the method further comprises tracking the mobile terminal device by ground stations using geographic coordinates and then transmitting the geographic coordinates.

30. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 26 wherein the method further comprises:

carrying out, using information previously collected and stored, statistical computations so as to recognize at the early point in time which of the plurality of routes will be selected; and

determining a tracking interval using the information from the past.

32. A computer system medium controlling even digitally storable that can be accessed via the Internet, the events being predefinable by a user, the computer system comprising:

a memory configured to store, in a user-specific manner, route information and to store an event associated with an item of the route information that determines a digitally controlled process, the route information including a starting point and an end point; and

a processor configured to use the route information to determine which of a plurality of routes is being traveled by the user so as to determine the stored event and start the digitally controlled process.