LOCATION STAMPING AND LOGGING OF ELECTRONIC EVENTS AND HABITAT GENERATION

• US 20120032975A1
• Filed: 10/17/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Koch, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 8,521,413 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3874 Structures specially adapted for data searching and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the detection, location stamping, and logging of electronic events and subsequent generation of habitat information. According to implementations, electronic events are detected and location stamped. Associated descriptions and other data corresponding to the electronic events is retrieved and stored along with the geographic locations of the electronic events in an activity log. The information in the activity log is used to generate visual representations of one or more geographic areas in which electronic events that meet user-defined or default criteria occurred within a predetermined frequency.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a user habitat, the computer-implemented method comprising:

retrieving, via a computer, a plurality of entries from within an activity log, wherein each entry comprises a geographic location and an electronic event descriptor corresponding to an electronic event;

positioning, via the computer, a location designator on a map corresponding to the geographic location stored with each of the plurality of entries within the activity log; and

representing, via the computer, a plurality of the location designators as a habitat according to selected activity log entry criteria.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether habitat criteria has been received;

if habitat criteria has not been received, retrieving default habitat criteria and retrieving the plurality of entries from within the activity log according to the default habitat criteria; and

if habitat criteria has been received, retrieving the plurality of entries from within the activity log according to the habitat criteria.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the habitat criteria comprises user-defined criteria.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the habitat criteria comprises a parameter for including only electronic events that occur within a determined frequency.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each electronic event comprises an action recordable by a wireless electronic device associated with a user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic event descriptor corresponding to the electronic event included in each entry of the plurality of entries within the activity log comprises a date and a time that the electronic event occurred and a description of the electronic event.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic event descriptor corresponding to the electronic event included in each entry of the plurality of entries within the activity log comprises an indication as to whether an electronic device associated with a known party was within proximity to a user when the electronic event occurred.

8. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer at least to:

retrieve a plurality of entries from within an activity log, wherein each entry comprises a geographic location and an electronic event descriptor corresponding to an electronic event;

position a location designator on a map corresponding to the geographic location stored with each of the plurality of entries within the activity log; and

represent a plurality of the location designators as a habitat according to selected activity log entry criteria.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, further comprising computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer at least to:

determine whether habitat criteria has been received;

if habitat criteria has not been received, retrieve default habitat criteria and retrieve the plurality of entries from within the activity log according to the default habitat criteria; and

if habitat criteria has been received, retrieve the plurality of entries from within the activity log according to the habitat criteria.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim of claim 9, wherein the habitat criteria comprises user-defined criteria.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the habitat criteria comprises a parameter for including only electronic events that occur within a determined frequency.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein each electronic event comprises an action recordable by a wireless electronic device associated with a user.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the electronic event descriptor corresponding to the electronic event included in each entry of the plurality of entries within the activity log comprises a date and a time that the electronic event occurred and a description of the electronic event.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the electronic event descriptor corresponding to the electronic event included in each entry of the plurality of entries within the activity log comprises an indication as to whether an electronic device associated with a known party was within proximity to a user when the electronic event occurred.

15. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer at least to:

record a plurality of instances of electronic events associated with a mobile computing device;

record a geographic location associated with each instance of the plurality of instances;

correlate the geographic location of each instance with the electronic events on a map to create a habitat; and

display the habitat on the map.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer at least to:

retrieve electronic event information associated with each instance of each electronic event; and

record the electronic event information with the geographic location associated with each instance in an activity log.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein causing the computer to correlate the geographic location of each instance with the electronic events on a map to create a habitat comprises causing the computer to:

receive habitat generating criteria defining parameters for generating the habitat according to the electronic event information and the geographic location associated with each instance in the activity log;

select the electronic events and corresponding geographic locations associated with each instance of the selected electronic events according to the habitat generating criteria; and

designate an area on the map encompassing the selected geographic locations as the habitat.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the habitat generating criteria comprises a frequency threshold of event occurrence.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the habitat generating criteria comprises user-defined habitat generating criteria.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the habitat generating criteria comprises default habitat generating criteria.