System, Method, and Computer-Readable Medium for Distribution of Point of Interest Location Information in a Mobile Telecommunication Network

• US 20080158018A1
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David A. Lau
• Original Assignee: David A. Lau
• Inventors: Lau, David A.
• Application Number:
  US11/617,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158018A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/995.24
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/047 Optimisation of routes or paths, e.g. travelling salesman problem
• 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 method and system for user supply of point of interests is provided. User-supplied point of interest information may be maintained in a network storage facility mobile terminal, or other electronic digital storage device. A GPS device or mobile terminal for which location information may be determined may initiate a query of a user-supplied point of interest in conjunction with the location of the mobile terminal. Location or navigation information of the user-supplied point of interest may be retrieved and transmitted to the mobile terminal for display hereby.

Claims

1. A method of distributing location information regarding a point of interest, comprising:

storing a name of a point of interest;

receiving a request for location information regarding the point of interest;

receiving location information associated with a device that issued the request;

querying a location service with a name of the point of interest and the location; and

transmitting location information regarding the point of interest to the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a mobile terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein storing further comprises:

accessing a server by a client system; and

transmitting a name of the point of interest from the client to the server, wherein the name is stored by the server,

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a user of the client system is associated with the device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein transmitting a name further comprises supplying the name to a web page received by the client system from the server.

6. The method of claim 3, herein transmitting a name further comprises supplying the name via a transmission medium selected from the group consisting of a short message service, a text transmission, and voice input using speech-to-text conversion.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein transmitting a name further comprises selecting the name from a set of default names included in a data structure selected from the group consisting of a web page, short message service, or text medium received by the client system from the server.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting further comprises transmitting supplementary information.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting to the device supplementary information selected from the group consisting of product information associated with the point of interest, service information associated with the point of interest, a uniform resource locator associated with the point of interest, a review associated with the point of interest, comments associated with the point of interest, advertisement content associated with the point of interest, a photo associated with the point of interest, and a video associated with the point of interest.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request further comprise receiving a voice signal specifying the point of interest, the method further comprising converting the voice signal to text with a speech-to-text algorithm, wherein the name used to query the location service comprises text output from the speech-to-text algorithm.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving the location information as text-based directions by an interactive voice response system; and

converting the location information to speech using a text-to-speech algorithm, wherein transmitting location information comprises transmitting voice output of the text-to-speech algorithm.

21. A network system for implementing the methods of claims 1-11.

12. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system, the computer-executable instructions for distributing location information regarding a point of interest, comprising:

instructions that store a name of a point of interest;

instructions that receive a request for location information regarding the point of interest;

instructions that receive location information associated with a device that issued the request;

instructions that query a location service with a name of the point of interest and the location; and

instructions that transmit location information regarding the point of interest to the device.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the device comprises a mobile terminal.

14. The computer-readable medium, of claim 12, wherein the instructions that store further comprise:

instructions that access a server by a client system; and

instructions that transmit a name of the point of interest from the client to the server, wherein the name is stored by the server.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein a user of the client system is associated with the device.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions that transmit a name further comprise instructions that supply the name to a web page received by the client system from the server.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions that transmit a name further comprise instructions that supply the name via a transmission medium selected from the group consisting of a short message service, a text transmission, and voice input using speech-to-text conversion.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions that transmit a name further comprise instructions that select the name from a set of default names included in a data structure selected from the group consisting of a web page, short message service, or text medium received by the client system from the server.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions that transmit further comprise instructions that transmit supplementary information.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising instructions that transmit to the device supplementary information selected from the group consisting of product information associated with the point of interest, service information associated with the point of interest, a uniform resource locator associated with the point of interest, a review associated with the point of interest, comments associated with the point of interest, advertisement content associated with the point of interest, a photo associated with the point of interest, and a video associated with the point of interest.