Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information

• US 20090063675A1
• Filed: 03/20/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gregory Hamlin, James P. Flannery, Sadeg M. Faris
• Original Assignee: Gregory Hamlin, James P. Flannery, Sadeg M. Faris
• Inventors: Hamlin, Gregory, Flannery, James P., Faris, Sadeg M.
• Application Number:
  US12/077,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063675A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols
• 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 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

An Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information and biophysiological state information collected from an animate object moving along a course through the space-time continuum. The Internet-based system comprise a wireless GSU-enabled client network device affixed to the body of an animate object. The wireless device includes a global synchronization unit (GSU) for automatically generating time and space (TS) coordinate information corresponding to the time and space coordinate of the animate object with respect to a globally referenced coordinate system, as the animate object moves along a course through the space time continuum. The device also includes biophysiological state sensor affixed to the body of the animate object, for automatically sensing the biophysiological state of the animate object and generating biophysiological state information indicative of the sensed biophysiological state of the animate object along its course. The wireless device also includes a wireless date transmitter for transmitting the TS coordinate information and the biophysiological state information through free-space. A TS-stamping based tracking server receives the TS coordinate information and the biophysiological state information through in a wireless manner, and stores the same as the animate object moves along its course. An Internet information server serves Internet-based documents containing the collected TS coordinate and biophysiological state information. An Internet-enabled client system enables authorized persons to view the served Internet-based documents and monitor the collected TS coordinate and biophysiological state information, for various purposes.

Claims

1. An Internet-based method and system for enabling location-and-time based decryption of messages comprising:

a GSU-enabled client computing device, the GSU-enabled client computing device configured for generating a time and space stamp corresponding to the time and space coordinates of the GSU-enabled client computing device;

a TS-stamping tracking server to decrypt certain messages stored on a computer network only at certain times and places and at no others, the TS-stamping tracking server configured to receive said time and space stamp, wherein the certain times and places are constraints predetermined at the GSU-enabled client computing device.

2. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of a time constrained competition.

3. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of a financial or commodity trading system.

4. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of an online contest or game.

5. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of an auction.

7. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of a time constrained competition.

8. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of a financial or commodity trading system.

9. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of an online contest or game.

10. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of an auction.

12. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of a time constrained competition.

13. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of a financial or commodity trading system.

14. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of an online contest or game.

15. The Internet-based method and system as in claim 1, wherein said message is part of an auction.

6. An Internet-based method and system for enabling the embedding of a message with a digital signature within a transportable GSU-enabled computing device so that the message can only be decrypted in a specific location at a specific time period, wherein said specific location and said specific time period are predetermined at said GSU-enabled computing device, said GSU-enabled computing device configured for generating a time and space stamp corresponding to the time and space coordinates of the GSU-enabled computing device.

11. An Internet-based method of and system for enabling the reception of secure radio communications comprising:

a GSU-enabled client computing device equipped, with radio communications capabilities;

a TS-stamping based tracking receiver for enabling the GSU-enabled client computing device to only decrypt a particular incoming radio message or messages at a particular location at a particular period of time, and no other space-time instant, wherein said particular location and said particular period of time are predetermined at said GSU-enabled client computing device.