Apparatus And System For Location Assistance And Providing Other Information

• US 20080201399A1
• Filed: 01/17/2008
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zafrir Kariv
• Original Assignee: Zafrir Kariv
• Inventors: Kariv, Zafrir
• Application Number:
  US12/015,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20080201399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

There is provided an interactive system of an apparatus, possessed by a user, and one or more servers or other computer type devices, for providing information to the apparatus over Local and Wide Area, Public, Cellular networks and other networks. The information may be based on location of the apparatus, as received from a Global positioning system or as data therefrom, or may be information provided based on data received from the apparatus, that was inputted by a user of the apparatus.

Claims

1. An interactive system for providing information comprising:

an apparatus configured for electronic communication with a Global Positioning System, and receiving input from at least one user; and

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at least one server configured for interfacing with a network from which information is obtained, and for receiving data from a Global Positioning System, the at least one server including;

means for sending data to the apparatus;

means for receiving data from the apparatus; and

at least one processor in electronic communication with a network interface, the data sending means and the data receiving means, the processor programmed to;

provide information to the apparatus that is obtained from a network that is coordinated with the position of the apparatus in accordance with data received from a Global Positioning System; and

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provide information to the apparatus that is obtained from a network in response to received data.

2. The system of claim 1, additionally comprising:

means for providing the information to the apparatus in at least one of text in an on-screen display, voice, or tactilely.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the network includes at least one of a Local Area Network or a Wide Area Network.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the Local Area Network includes a private network.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the Wide Area Network includes the Internet.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the means for sending data includes means for sending data to the apparatus such that the apparatus provides the data in at least one form of at least one of voice, text, or tactilely.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the means for receiving data includes means for receiving and processing voice, text, the text being entered in words or via a touch screen, or tactilely entered signals.