SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ACTING UPON STATES AND STATE CHANGES

• US 20130122928A1
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mark Oliver Pfluger
• Original Assignee: Mark Oliver Pfluger
• Inventors: Pfluger, Mark Oliver
• Application Number:
  US13/662,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20130122928A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00

Abstract

Systems and methods for determining states and state changes on a personal wireless device, and triggering actions upon these state changes. The personal wireless device includes at least a user interface, a positioning system and a system to determine the device acceleration. Examples of these systems are an accelerometer to determine the device acceleration and GPS (Global Positioning System) to determine the device position. States incurred from user movement include, but are not limited to: walking, driving, stationary. In one embodiment, the location of a parked vehicle is automatically saved, and a user interface to display past parking locations and guide the user to one of these parking locations, is offered.

Claims

1. A method for testing for a state change of a user, comprising:

(a) receiving, from a first sensor of an electronic device of said user, a plurality of signals;

(b) determining from said plurality of signals a change of mobility state of said user, said mobility state selected from walking, driving and stationary; and

(c) verifying said change in mobility state of said user using a second sensor of said electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said first sensor is an inertial motion sensor.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said inertial motion sensor is an accelerometer.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said inertial motion sensor is a gyrometer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said first sensor is a geolocation system.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said geolocation system is a global positioning system or a system based on triangulation of wireless senders, e.g. cell towers or Wi-Fi access points.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said first sensor is a magnetometer or a humidity sensor or a illuminance sensor or an ambient pressure sensor or an ambient temperature sensor.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said second sensor is a magnetometer or a humidity sensor or a illuminance sensor or an ambient pressure sensor or an ambient temperature sensor.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said second sensor is a geolocation system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said geolocation system is a global positioning system or a system based on triangulation of wireless senders, e.g. cell towers or Wi-Fi access points.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein verifying said change in mobility state comprises measuring or estimating a speed of said user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said speed estimation is based on data from an inertial motion sensor.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said inertial motion sensor is either an accelerometer or a gyrometer.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises aggregating signals from multiple sensors.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises aggregating signals from multiple sensors.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said multiple sensors are a magnetometer and a geolocation system.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein upon verifying said change of mobility sate of said user, receiving, from a geolocation system of said electronic device, a geographic location of said user,

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said geographic location corresponds to a location of said change of state of said user.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising recording said geographic location in a memory location of said electronic device.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein said electronic device is a portable electronic device.