PERMISSION MODULE ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE

• US 20100010740A1
• Filed: 07/13/2009
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Palm, Inc. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Haitani, Robert Y., Nachman, George L., Kowalczyk, Krzysztof J., Champlin, David G., Kansal, Sachin S.
• Application Number:
  US12/502,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20100010740A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/214
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• 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: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• 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

A system, apparatus, and method for techniques to retrieve and process information from communication networks on a mobile computing device are described. The apparatus may include a first interface module to receive a query and to display results of said query. The results include location information of at least one entity associated with the query. The apparatus may include a second interface module to transfer the query to a data source server, receive the results from the data source server, and transfer the results to said first interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1-44. -44. (canceled)

45. A mobile computing device for operating an application using position data, comprising:

a position data source module configured to generate position data representing a position of the mobile computing device;

a user interface module configured to receive a search query;

a client application operable on the mobile computing device; and

a permission module configured to transfer position data from the position data source module to the client application if the client application has permission to receive the position data.

46. The mobile computing device of claim 45, wherein the client application is a third party application.

47. The mobile computing device of claim 46, wherein the position data source module is configured to use an assisted global positioning system to generate the position data.

48. The mobile computing device of claim 47, further comprising a location information source module configured to provide location information to a plurality of client applications including the third party application in a manner irrespective of positioning technology.