Method and system for communicating by way of a physical location

• US 20070073827A1
• Filed: 12/03/2004
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Viboud, Jean-Paul, Privat, Gilles, Chraiet, Naoufel
• Application Number:
  US10/580,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• 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 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A method for managing information between communicating objects, the information originating from information provider communicating objects and having to be consulted from information display communicating objects, where in a prior step, a system of reference is defined specifically for referencing in a unique manner a set of locations and providing, for each location of the set of locations, an identification. Information data are acquired and are stored, each information datum comprising an item of information to be disseminated provided by an information provider communicating object and a parameter indicating the identification of a location defined at the prior step and associated with the information. Stored information is accessed associated with the location by way of at least one information display communicating object situated at the location.

Claims

1. A method for managing information between communicating objects, said information originating from information provider communicating objects and considered by communicating objects able to deliver information, said method comprising the steps:

acquiring and storing data comprising an item of information to be disseminated by an information provider communicating object and comprising a parameter identifying a location associated with said item of information, the location belonging to a set of locations identified in a unique manner in a system of reference; and

delivering at least one stored item of information associated with said location by way of at least one communicating object able to deliver information and situated at said location.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said communicating object able to deliver information comprises an information delivery device fixed at a location, said information delivery device affording access to stored information associated with said location.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a stored item of information associated with a location is delivered by way of a communicating object able to deliver information and providing the parameter indicating the identification of said location.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

determining a location in which a communicating object able to deliver information is situated, and

delivering stored information associated with said location by way of said communicating object.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

determining a location in which an object providing information is situated, and

acquiring and storing at least one datum comprising an item of information provided by way of said object providing information and a parameter indicating the identification of said location.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

carrying out a step of identification of a user of a communicating object able to deliver information, and

affording access of the user to stored information associated with a location by way of said communicating object as a function of at least the results of this step of identification.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein furthermore a step of authentication of the user is carried out, and access to associated stored information is a function of at least the results of this step of authentication.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information provider communicating object associated with a location comprises an information acquisition device fixed to said location.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the step of:

carrying out at least one step of identification of a user of an information provider communicating object, and

acquiring and storing at least one datum comprising an item of information provided by the user by way of said object as a function of at least the results of this step of identification.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein furthermore a step of authentication of the user is carried out, and the acquisition and the storage of the datum is a function of at least the results of this step of authentication.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the step of triggering, when a communicating object is located for the first time in a location, an operation destined for said communicating object, prompting it to provide an item of information when the communicating object is an information provider, and to have access to stored information associated with said location when the communicating object is able to deliver information.

12. A system for managing information between communicating objects by way of a location, said information originating from information provider communicating objects and considered by communicating objects able to deliver information, said system comprising:

means for acquiring and storing data comprising an item of information to be disseminated provided by an information provider communicating object and comprising a parameter identifying a location associated with said item of information, the location belonging to a set of locations identified in a unique manner in a system of reference; and

means for delivering at least one stored item of information associated with said location by way of at least one communicating object able to deliver information and situated at said location.

13. A platform for managing information comprising at least two information management systems, each information management system comprising:

means for acquiring and storing data comprising an item of information to be disseminated provided by an information provider communicating object and comprising a parameter indicating an identification of a location associated with said item of information, the location belonging to a set of locations identified in a unique manner in a system of reference;

means for delivering at least one stored item of information associated with said location by way of at least one communicating object able to deliver information and situated at said location the platform comprising means specifically for matching up the location identification in the system of reference of one of the two information management systems with the location identification in the system of reference of the other of the two information management systems.