APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INFORMATION QUERYING AND SERVING ON MOBILE DEVICES BASED ON AMBIENT CONDITIONS
First Claim
1. A processor-implemented method for serving ambient condition sensitive information to a mobile user, comprising:
- accumulating user activity interest information;
accumulating user situational information;
associating the user activity interest information and user situational information with a user profile;
updating the user profile with the associated information in a database;
analyzing accumulated information associated with the user profile;
querying an information database based on the analysis of the user profile;
selecting information based on the user profile and ambient conditions at a user location to include in a message; and
sending the message to a user.
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Abstract
The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for information querying and serving on mobile devices based on ambient conditions. Such conditions may include weather, traffic, market prices, news and events, and/or the like. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information to users via mobile devices. Users, in turn, trigger the provision of information by scanning or observing codes or information. The scans, together with geographic, temporal, and user-specific information, are obtained by the server that receives, processes, and records the message. Based on these messages and a user profile—which may include continuously updated user-specific behavior information, situational and ambient information, an accumulated history of scanned code messages, and integration with outside database information—the server selects information to serve to the users'"'"' mobile devices from an information base. In one embodiment, information may also be served to users based solely on the user profiles and ambient conditions, and without any initiating code scan. This is based on the accumulated history of scanned codes, which yields behavioral information about a user, including user space-time trajectories.
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25 Claims
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1. A processor-implemented method for serving ambient condition sensitive information to a mobile user, comprising:
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accumulating user activity interest information; accumulating user situational information; associating the user activity interest information and user situational information with a user profile; updating the user profile with the associated information in a database; analyzing accumulated information associated with the user profile; querying an information database based on the analysis of the user profile; selecting information based on the user profile and ambient conditions at a user location to include in a message; and sending the message to a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A processor-implemented method for serving ambient condition sensitive information to a mobile user, comprising:
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receiving at a server messages from a user comprised of user identification, mobile device identification, a code image scanned by the mobile device, time of the scan, and user geographic location at the time of the scan, wherein the messages were sent to a short code address via MMS; associating the user identification with a user profile in a database; updating the user profile with the received messages; enhancing the code image scanned by the mobile device; analyzing the accumulated messages in the user profile; determining proper information to serve to the user based on the received message, the user profile, and ambient conditions at a user location; selecting the information to serve to the user from a database; incorporating the selected information into a reply message; and sending the reply message to the user'"'"'s mobile device via MMS.
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23. An apparatus for serving ambient condition sensitive information to a mobile user, comprising:
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a memory; a processor disposed in communication with said memory, and configured to issue a plurality of instructions stored in the memory, wherein the instructions are issuable to; accumulate user activity interest information; accumulate user situational information; associate the user activity interest information and user situational information with a user profile; update the user profile with the associated information in a database; analyze accumulated information associated with the user profile; query an information database based on the analysis of the user profile; select information based on the user profile and ambient conditions at a user location to include in a message; and send the message to a user.
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24. A system for serving ambient condition sensitive information to a mobile user, comprising:
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means to accumulate user activity interest information; means to accumulate user situational information; means to associate the user activity interest information and user situational information with a user profile; means to update the user profile with the associated information in a database; means to analyze accumulated information associated with the user profile; means to query an information database based on the analysis of the user profile; means to select information based on the user profile and ambient conditions at a user location to include in a message; and means to send the message to a user.
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25. A processor-accessible medium for serving ambient condition sensitive information to a mobile user, comprising:
processor readable instructions stored in the processor-accessible medium, wherein the processor readable instructions are issuable by the processor to; accumulate user activity interest information; accumulate user situational information; associate the user activity interest information and user situational information with a user profile; update the user profile with the associated information in a database; analyze accumulated information associated with the user profile; query an information database based on the analysis of the user profile; select information based on the user profile and ambient conditions at a user location to include in a message; and send the message to a user.
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