OPTIMIZING BANDWIDTH OF A GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

• US 20080284642A1
• Filed: 05/17/2007
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Seacat, Lisa Anne, Chavez, Timothy R.
• Application Number:
  US11/750,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20080284642A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/42 Determining position
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/017 Detecting state or type of motion

Abstract

A method and system for optimizing a global positioning system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an indication of at least one change in coordinate attributes, determining a plurality of cost and transaction rules based on at least one user preference, and processing a plurality coordinate transactions based on the least one cost and transaction rule.

Claims

1. A method for use in a global positioning system, the method comprising:

receiving an indication of at least one change in coordinate attributes, wherein the coordinate attributes comprise at least one current geographic location, at least one current time, at least one current position relative to at least one second geographic location, at least one past geographic position, at least one time associated with the past geographic position, at least one current orientation, at least one past orientation, at least one current speed, and at least one past speed;

determining a plurality of cost and transaction rules based on at least one user preference, wherein the least one cost and transaction rule controls a type of coordinate transaction, wherein at least one cost and transaction rule controls how often to process coordinate transactions, wherein at least one cost and transaction rule is a monetary-based rule that limits the number of coordinate transactions to as few transactions as possible in order to reduce costs, and wherein the plurality of cost and transaction rules are based on user-defined preferences; and

processing a plurality coordinate transactions based on the least one cost and transaction rule, wherein the plurality of coordinate transactions comprise sending and receiving coordinate information, wherein coordinate information comprises at least one current GPS coordinate, at least one predictive GPS coordinate, and at least one coordinate attribute; and

converting a plurality of GPS coordinates into animation for display on a screen, wherein the converting is based on a tuple of coordinate attributes.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

storing GPS coordinates in a memory; and

sending the GPS coordinates in a cluster of GPS coordinates at a future time.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising one or more of processing, transmitting, receiving, and displaying data that comprises cellular text messages and data transmitted via Internet services.

4. A global positioning system (GPS) comprising:

a GPS application that computes a plurality of coordinate attributes based on a plurality of transaction rules;

a processor that executes the GPS application; and

a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores the plurality of transaction rules, wherein the GPS application is operable to;

receive an indication of at least one change in coordinate attributes, wherein the coordinate attributes comprise at least one current geographic location, at least one current time, at least one current position relative to at least one second geographic location, at least one past geographic position, at least one time associated with the past geographic position, at least one current orientation, at least one past orientation, at least one current speed, and at least one past speed;

determine a plurality of cost and transaction rules based on at least one user preference, wherein the least one cost and transaction rule controls a type of coordinate transaction, wherein at least one cost and transaction rule controls how often to process coordinate transactions, wherein at least one cost and transaction rule is a monetary-based rule that limits the number of coordinate transactions to as few transactions as possible in order to reduce costs, and wherein the plurality of cost and transaction rules are based on user-defined preferences; and

process a plurality coordinate transactions based on the least one cost and transaction rule, wherein the plurality of coordinate transactions comprise sending and receiving coordinate information, wherein coordinate information comprises at least one current GPS coordinate, at least one predictive GPS coordinate, and at least one coordinate attribute; and

convert a plurality of GPS coordinates into animation for display on a screen, wherein the converting is based on a tuple of coordinate attributes.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the GPS application is further operable to:

store GPS coordinates in the memory; and

send the GPS coordinates in a cluster of GPS coordinates at a future time.