Method and system for providing a plurality of localized services information to a mobile device

• US 20070077944A1
• Filed: 10/03/2006
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Charles Sacco, Douglas Bellenger, Matthew Pernberton, Nicole Radick
• Original Assignee: Charles Sacco, Douglas Bellenger, Matthew Pernberton, Nicole Radick
• Inventors: Radick, Nicole, Pernberton, Matthew, Sacco, Charles, Bellenger, Douglas
• Application Number:
  US11/542,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20070077944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/50 whereby the position solution is constrained to lie upon a particular curve or surface, e.g. for locomotives on railway tracks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A system and method for providing localized information services to a user of a wireless device. The system and method include a locator that locates the wireless device, a service request receiver, wherein the service request requests a ranking of responsive services based on at least three factors, and wherein at least one of the at least three factors is the location returned by the locator, a user selectable interface presented to the wireless device, wherein the user is allowed to select at least one of the ranked responsive services via the user selectable interface, and a direction presentation, wherein the direction presentation includes geographic directions from the location returned by the locator to the selected at least one of the ranked responsive services. In an embodiment, the ranked services are restaurant services.

Claims

1. A system for providing localized information services to a user of a wireless device, comprising:

a locator that locates the wireless device;

a service request receiver, wherein the service request requests a ranking of responsive services based on at least three factors, and wherein at least one of the at least three factors is the location returned by said locator;

a user selectable interface presented to the wireless device, wherein the user is allowed to select at least one of the ranked responsive services via said user selectable interface; and

a direction presentation, wherein the direction presentation includes geographic directions from the location returned by said locator to the selected at least one of the ranked responsive services.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said locator comprises a GPS locator

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said locator is a triangulating locator.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least three factors comprise ones selected from the group consisting of the location, service ratings, survey responses, and service geographic range.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the ranked services comprise restaurant services.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless device comprises a PDA.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless device comprises a cellular phone.