Internet System for Connecting Client-Travelers with Geographically-Associated Data
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Abstract
A multi-dimensional information repository has a plurality of stored data structures; and one or more tags associated with individual ones of the plurality of data structures. The data structures are tagged according to locations and defined regions relative to the surface of the Earth, and a data retrieval system retrieves information from the data structures according to location data accompanying requests for data. In some cases data structures are also tagged relative to time in addition to location and defined regions, and both tags are used in retrieving data structures. An Internet-connected subscription server system using the data repository has a communication module for receiving data requests accompanied by location data and a code set for managing retrieval of information from the data repository in response to the data requests. The system, receiving a data request, uses the location data accompanying the request to determine location in individual ones of pre-defined regions, and uses the pre-defined region information to access data structures and retrieve information related to the pre-defined regions for transmission in response to the data requests.
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27 Claims
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8. An information delivery system, comprising:
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a GPS-enabled cellular telephone associated with a mobile user and enabled to communicate on a cellular network; and
a server enabled to deliver information on the cellular network to the cellular telephone for the user;
wherein the server delivers different information sequentially regarding a geographically-fixed reference location to the cellular telephone, the information delivered being different according to dynamic repositioning of the cellular telephone as the mobile user travels, and wherein the cellular telephone renders the information as audible voice. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for delivering information, comprising the steps of:
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(a) referencing a geographically-fixed reference location by a network-connected server;
(b) noting location of a GPS-enabled cellular telephone at different points in time;
(c) delivering different information sequentially to the cellular telephone as audible voice regarding the geographically-fixed reference location depending on position and dynamics of change in position of the cellular telephone. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A cellular telephone comprising:
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a GPS-enabled subsystem for reporting on a cellular network a position of the cellular telephone;
executable code enabling receipt of and rendering to a user information regarding a geographically-fixed reference location;
a display apparatus; and
a speaker apparatus;
wherein the cellular telephone reports its position on the cellular network periodically, and receives information sequentially regarding the geographically-fixed reference location, the information received differing depending on the position and dynamics of change in position of the cellular telephone, and wherein the cellular telephone renders the information as audible voice. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A machine readable medium in a GPS-enabled cellular telephone having stored thereon a set of instructions that cause the telephone to perform a method comprising the steps of:
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(a) transmitting periodically on a cellular network position of the cellular telephone;
(b) receiving sequentially on the cellular network differing information regarding a geographically-fixed reference location, the information differing according to position and dynamics of change in position of the cellular telephone;
(c) rendering the received information in audible voice. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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