System And Method For Providing Personalized Automated And Autonomously Initiated Information Delivery And Chaperone Service

• US 20090291672A1
• Filed: 11/13/2008
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ron Treves
• Original Assignee: Ron Treves
• Inventors: Treves, Ron, Treves, Dina, Schwabsky, Benny, Granot, Haim, Treves, David
• Application Number:
  US12/270,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20090291672A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A system and method for receiving travel information such as flight information, directional guidance to airport gates and facilities, and interacting autonomously with service providers such as airlines and rental car companies without requiring human resources to receive the tickets or car keys. The system devices essentially provide an automatic chaperon which can initiate processes such as querying databases or provide navigation guidance without intervention, setup procedures or any prior knowledge on behalf of the user. It can also access secured databases for retrieving rental car reservation information for automatic rental car checkout, personal health files for emergency cases, flight check-in, connecting flight information and call for emergency staff alerting the staff automatically of the caller'"'"'s location within the compound, as well as recent health history and condition.

Claims

1. A system providing uninitiated wireless access by a client to information of a service provider, comprising:

a subsystem for determining the location of the client;

a subsystem for determining information, based on the determined location of the client, of potential need to the client in respect of procedures which the client is in the process of executing; and

a system for pushing the information to the client.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a subsystem for providing an estimation, based on a procedure the client is currently executing, of at least one next procedure the client is likely to execute; and

said subsystem for determining information using said estimation when determining the information of potential need to the client.

3. A system for providing procedural information to a client, comprising:

at least one wireless network;

at least one server;

at least one client having uninitiated access to the network; and

a subsystem for causing the server to push information to the client without requests for information from the client, said information based upon;

client location; and

time at which the client executes a procedure.

4. The system of claims 3, further comprising:

a subsystem for determining a travel itinerary of the client;

a subsystem for determining the current date and time;

a subsystem for determining the location of the client; and

wherein said information is related to the travel itinerary of the client and further

wherein said at least one server is communicatively connected to a plurality of databases, each said database being a source of said information which may be pushed to the client.

5. The system of claim 3, further comprising a subsystem for providing uninitiated guidance to the client pertaining to its location, the current date and time, and relevant to procedures which the user is in the process of executing.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said guidance is directional, geographic guidance such that the client may navigate from one location to another in the execution of the itinerary.

7. The system of claims 6, further comprising a subsystem for providing knowledge and real-time information and guidance for executing actions without requiring initiation on behalf of the client, and without requiring the client to upload any technical information or program any information or software specific to that itinerary.

8. The system of claims 3, further comprising a subsystem for initiating transmission of information and providing personalized guidance to the client based upon generalized sequences of operations which are customized automatically to fit the itinerary.

9. The system of claim 3, further comprising a subsystem for transmitting a distress call to emergency staff, identifying the location of the client within a bounded area and providing personal medical information related to the client.

10. A system for forecasting the arrival of a client to a location covered by its wireless network, and prepare in advance data and information pertaining to the client'"'"'s schedule and procedures to be executed on location upon arrival, comprising:

a wireless broadcasting facility;

a server containing a travel itinerary of the client;

a subsystem for estimating the future arrival time of the client at a location;

a subsystem for determining the data and information pertaining to the client'"'"'s schedule and procedures to be executed on location upon arrival based upon the itinerary, the estimated future time of arrival, and information relating to characteristics of the client; and

a subsystem for causing said data and information to be sent by said wireless broadcasting facility from said server to said client.

11. A method for providing a virtual chaperone service, comprising:

monitoring the location of a user'"'"'s mobile device within an area covered by a wireless system; and

automatically initiating transmission of information related to the user'"'"'s geographical location to the user'"'"'s mobile device pertaining to a procedure associated with a predefined user'"'"'s profile, to thereby present said information on said user'"'"'s mobile device and offer assistance to the user in executing said procedure.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said predefined user'"'"'s profile is a travel itinerary.

13. The method of claims 11, further comprising the step of providing automatic self served check-in to a service.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the service is an airline flight.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the service is a transaction with a vehicle rental service.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the service is a transaction relating to hospital admittance.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the service is guidance and planning scheduled rides, shows and pass queues of an amusement park customized to a user'"'"'s preferences and limitations.

18. The method of claim 13 wherein the service is guidance, customized planning, and real time updates regarding the status of shows, demonstrations, and speeches in a convention center.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein said system is capable of dynamically changing destinations and routes to destinations based on real time variations of parameters.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said parameters are selected from the group consisting of:

traffic congestion, lengths of queues, changes in airline schedule, and user predefined preferences.

21. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of transmitting a distress call to emergency staff identifying the location of the user within a bounded area and providing personal medical information related to the user.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising the steps of:

determining whether an exception to the execution of the itinerary, procedures, and actions is present; and

when such an exception is present, sending an alert to the user'"'"'s mobile device providing an indication of appropriate actions which need to be taken by the user.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein said exception is a determination that insufficient time is presently allocated for a user to make a connecting flight.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein said exception is a determination that a flight on which a user is presently scheduled to depart is sufficiently late such that the user will not be able to make a connecting flight.