CREATING A DYNAMIC GROUP CALL THROUGH SIMILARITY BETWEEN IMAGES

• US 20080055395A1
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mock, Von A., Lee, Yong C.
• Application Number:
  US11/467,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20080055395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2547 Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A method (300, 400) for identifying an entity of interest to a user of a communication device (110). The method can include receiving an image (115) from the communication device and processing the image to identify at least one feature of the image. The method also can include, based on the identified feature, selecting at least one business entity that is associated with the identified feature and that is located in a geographic region in which the communication device is located. In another arrangement, at least one user or user group associated with the identified feature can be selected based on the identified feature. A communication group can be created that includes the selected user. The communication group can be a call group. In another arrangement, a text chat session that includes the selected user can be created.

Claims

1. A method for identifying an entity of interest to a user of a communication device, comprising:

receiving an image from the communication device;

processing the image to identify at least one feature of the image; and

based on the identified feature, selecting at least one business entity that is associated with the identified feature and that is located in a geographic region in which the communication device is located; and

communicating an identifier associated with the selected business entity to the communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the image comprises receiving a photograph.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the business entity comprises selecting the business entity from a list of advertisers.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating to the communication device identifiers associated with a plurality of the selected business entities, the identifiers being presented in an order based on rankings of the business entities.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising ranking the business entities based on advertising fees received from the business entities.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising ranking the business entities based on their distance from the communication device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the business entity comprises:

selecting at least one attribute that is associated with the identified feature; and

selecting at least one business entity to which the attribute has been associated.

8. A method for identifying an entity of interest to a user of a communication device, comprising:

receiving an image from the communication device;

processing the image to identify at least one feature of the image; and

based on the identified feature, selecting at least one user associated with the identified feature; and

creating a communication group that includes the selected user.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein selecting the user comprises selecting a user group.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein creating the communication group comprises creating a call group.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein creating a communication group comprises creating a push-to-talk over cellular dynamic call group.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein creating the communication group comprises establishing a text chat session that includes the selected user.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein creating the communication group comprises receiving a user selection to broadcast a push-to-talk over cellular message to the selected user.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein creating the communication group comprises receiving a user selection identifying the selected user to include in the communication group.

15. A server, comprising:

a network adapter that receives an image from the communication device; and

a processor that processes the image to identify at least one feature of the image and, based on the identified feature, selects at least one business entity that is associated with the identified feature and that is located in a geographic region in which the communication device is located;

wherein the network adapter further communicates an identifier associated with the selected business entity to the communication device.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the image comprises a photograph.

17. The server of claim 15, wherein the business entity is selected from a list of advertisers.

18. The server of claim 15, wherein the network adapter communicates to the communication device identifiers associated with a plurality of the selected business entities, the identifiers being presented in an order based on rankings of the business entities.

19. The server of claim 15, wherein the business entities are ranked based on advertising fees received from the business entities.

20. The server of claim 15, wherein the business entities are ranked based on their distance from the communication device.