METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION AWARE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

• US 20100017482A1
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Secchi, Marco, Pichetti, Luigi, Piccinini, Sandro
• Application Number:
  US12/175,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20100017482A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding

Abstract

A method and system for location aware electronic communication. One implementation involves receiving an electronic communication at a receiving client, upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieving criteria for processing the communication from a location profile, and automatically processing the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based information from the communication.

Claims

1. A method for location aware electronic communication, comprising:

receiving an electronic communication at a receiving client;

upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieving criteria for processing the communication from a location profile; and

automatically processing the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based information from the communication.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the location profile includes location information of the receiving client.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the location-based information includes location information of a sender of the communication.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication includes one or more of:

electronic mail, meeting request, calendar invitation, chat, instant message.

5. The method of claim 1 further including:

upon detecting that the communication does not include location-based information, providing the communication for manual handling.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein automatically processing the communication further includes triggering a software agent client that selectively processes the communication based on the location-based information according to the retrieved processing criteria.

7. The method of claim 1 further including maintaining a location profile and dynamically updating the location profile based on events that indicate location preference of a user of the recipient.

8. A location aware electronic communication system, comprising:

a sender module configured for sending a location-based communication over a communication link;

a receiving module configured for receiving an electronic communication from the sender module;

a client module configured for retrieving criteria for processing the received communication from a location profile; and

an agent module configured for automatically processing the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based information from the communication.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the location profile includes location information of the receiving client.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the location-based information includes location information of a sender of the communication.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the communication includes one or more of:

electronic mail, meeting request, calendar invitation, chat, instant message.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein the client module is further configured for:

detecting if the communication includes location-based information, upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieving criteria for processing the communication from a location profile, and upon detecting that the communication does not include location-based information, providing the communication for manual handling.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein the agent module is further configured for selectively processing the communication based on the location-based information according to the retrieved processing criteria.

14. The system of claim 8 wherein the client module is further configured for maintaining a location profile and dynamically updating the information in the location profile.

15. A computer program product for location aware electronic communication, comprising a computer usable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

receive an electronic communication at a receiving client;

upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieve criteria for processing the communication from a location profile; and

automatically process the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based information from the communication.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the location profile includes location information of the receiving client.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the location-based information includes location information of a sender of the communication.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the communication includes one or more of:

electronic mail, meeting request, calendar invitation, chat, instant message.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the leverage said class method further causes the computer to:

for fields of an object type, for all class methods that have a return type and do not take parameters, derive a pseudo-field name from each class method name, execute the class method to obtain a pseudo-field value, and use the class method names and values as if they were the names and values of a regular field.

20. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the computer program further causes the computer to:

maintain a location profile and dynamically update the location profile based on events that indicate location preference of a user of the recipient; and

selectively process the communication based on the location-based information according to the retrieved processing criteria.