System and Method for Application Context Location Based Configuration Suggestions

• US 20130339498A1
• Filed: 08/21/2013
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BillJCo LLC
• Original Assignee: William J. Johnson
• Inventors: Johnson, William J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,014,658 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/16 Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/20 based on geographic position or location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/244 using a network of reference devices, e.g. beaconing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing Systems (MSs) interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. Data is shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out novel Location Based eXchanges (LBX) of data for new mobile applications. Information transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, is in process at, or is application modified at a mobile data processing system triggers processing of actions in accordance with user configured permissions, charters, and other configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a user configurable platform is provided for quickly building well behaving LBX applications at MSs and across a plurality of interoperating MSs. Tools, triggered interfaces and integrated applications are disclosed for a breadth of MS LBX configurations and functionality.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

maintaining, for a mobile data processing system, location based configuration data including a collection of information from a plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of a particular data processing system, the location based configuration data useful for creating a user configured location based configuration including one or more conditions for being monitored, and one or more actions to be performed upon determining the one or more conditions;

recognizing a request by a user of the mobile data processing system for suggested location based configuration information;

determining an application context of the request;

determining the suggested location based configuration information using the application context and the location based configuration data after recognizing the request, the suggested location based configuration information including the information from the plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of the particular data processing system;

presenting the suggested location based configuration information to the user of the mobile data processing system upon determining the suggested location based configuration information;

accepting user input from the user of the mobile data processing system for configuring the user configured location based configuration using the suggested location based configuration information including the information from the plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of the particular data processing system; and

saving the user configured location based configuration to a memory of the mobile data processing system.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the maintaining, for the mobile data processing system, location based configuration data includes maintaining outside the application context of an installed application of the mobile data processing system the location based configuration data, and wherein the recognizing the request by the user of the mobile data processing system includes recognizing the request within the application context of the installed application, and wherein the determining the application context of the request includes determining the application context of the installed application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the maintaining, for the mobile data processing system, location based configuration data includes maintaining a plurality of categories of the location based configuration data wherein the user can identify the plurality of categories in a user interface of the mobile data processing system.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the maintaining, for the mobile data processing system, location based configuration data includes maintaining data received according to a privilege configured by a particular user.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based configuration data includes a plurality of records, each record including a location based configuration portion and a match criteria for matching to the application context, and wherein the accepting user input from the user of the mobile data processing system includes the user selecting one or more location based configuration portions for forming the user configured location based configuration.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of a specified data processing system.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of a specified data processing system at a particular time.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of a specified data processing system being in a vicinity of a particular location.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of a specified data processing system being in a vicinity of another data processing system.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of a specified data processing system being in a vicinity of a plurality of data processing systems.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of the mobile data processing system being in a vicinity of a RFID device.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with a location of the mobile data processing system being in a vicinity of at least one of:

an electrical appliance, a mechanical appliance, an electrical device, or a mechanical device.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information with input entered by the user to a user interface of the mobile data processing system.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the suggested location based configuration information includes determining the suggested location based configuration information using an identity associated to a specified data processing system.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the suggested location based configuration information includes at least one of:

information for an email application,

information for a messaging application,

information for a calendar application,

information for an address book application,

information for a phone application,

information for a map application,

information for a storage application,

information for a file system application,

information for a database application,

information for a search application,

information for an internet browser application,

information for an emergency application,

information for a RFID application,

information for a hotspot application,

is information for a services application,

information for a traffic application,

information for an appliance application,

information for a device application,

information for an account management application,

information for a public transportation application,

information for a carpool application,

information for an advertising application,

information for a news application,

information for a picture application,

information for a video application,

information for a parking lot application,

information for an employment application,

information for a real estate application,

information included in a Whereabouts Data Record received by the mobile data processing system from a remote data processing system,

information included in a Whereabouts Data Record of the mobile data processing system,

information associated to an application of a remote data processing system,

information associated to an application of the mobile data processing system,

information for a statistic,

information for historical data,

information for a geofence specification,

information for a nearby specification,

information for a nearness specification,

information for a specification using a distance,

information for a vicinity specification,

information for a situational location specification,

information associated to a file,

information associated to a directory,

information for SQL database data,

information for a group,

is information for a plurality of data processing systems,

information for a date specification,

information for a time specification,

information for an arrival,

information for a departure,

information for a profile match percentage,

information for a profile tag match count,

information for a Whereabouts Programming Language specification,

information for an XML specification,

information for an atomic operator,

information for a point,

information for a radius,

information for a perimeter,

information for a sphere,

information for a region,

information for a Boolean value,

information for a physical location address,

information for a two dimensional region specification,

information for a three dimensional region specification,

information for a line,

information for a polygon,

information for a mathematical coordinate system,

information for a specification described by a set of geographical coordinate system points,

information for a specification described by a set of spatial coordinate system points,

a plurality of identifier information for the mobile data processing system,

a plurality of identifier information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system from a remote data processing system for the remote data processing system,

geofence information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system from a remote data processing system,

waymark information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system from a remote data processing system,

deliverable content information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system from a remote data processing system,

halo information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system from a remote data processing system,

information for a direction, or

information for data created by a user of the mobile data processing system with a user interface to a map.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the suggested location based configuration information includes a configurable action having a processing result of an atomic command paired with an atomic operand and having one or more associated parameters, the atomic command being:

SEND, or NOTIFY, or COMPOSE, or FIND, or COPY, or INVOKE, or DISCARD, or MOVE, or STORE, or CONNECT, or ADMINISTRATE, or CHANGE; and

the atomic operand being;

AUTODIALNUMBER, or WEBLINK, or EMAIL, or SMSMSG, or BRDEMAIL, or BRDSMSMSG, or INDICATOR, or APP, or DOCUMENT, or FILE, or CONTENT, or DBOBJ, or DATA, or SEMAPHORE, or DIRECTORY, or APPCONTEXT, or UIFOBJ, or UIFCTL, or INPUT, or OUTPUT, or ALERT, or PROC, or CONTAINER, or PROGOBJ, or CURSOR, or CALENDAR, or ADDRESSBOOK.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the user configured location based configuration specifies at least one of:

a content delivery, an alert, a notification, or a user interface presentation.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the user configured location based configuration specifies processing to be performed by at least one of the plurality of data processing systems.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the method is processed entirely by the mobile data processing system, and wherein the location based configuration data and suggested location based configuration information and user configured location based configuration are stored and maintained local to the mobile data processing system, and wherein the user configured location based configuration includes the one or more conditions for being monitored by the mobile data processing system, and the one or more actions to be performed by the mobile data processing system upon the mobile data processing system determining the one or more conditions.

20. The method of claim 1 including providing one or more user interfaces of the mobile data processing system wherein the user can manage the user configured location based configuration with at least one of:

browse, search, find, delete, alter, enable, or disable.

21. The method of claim 1 including providing one or more user interfaces of the mobile data processing system wherein an administrator can manage the location based configuration data with at least one of:

browse, search, find, delete, alter, enable, or disable.

22. The method of claim 1 including interfacing with the user for assigning a privilege to the user configured location based configuration for governing processing to be performed by the user configured location based configuration.

23. The method of claim 1 including validating the user configured location based configuration prior to the saving the user configured location based configuration.

24. A mobile data processing system, comprising:

one or more processors;

a user interface;

at least one memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the at least one memory includes executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, results in the system;

maintaining, for a mobile data processing system, location based is configuration data including a collection of information from a plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of a particular data processing system, the location based configuration data useful for creating a user configured location based configuration including one or more conditions for being monitored, and one or more actions to be performed upon determining the one or more conditions;

recognizing a request by a user of the mobile data processing system for suggested location based configuration information;

determining an application context of the request;

determining the suggested location based configuration information using the application context and the location based configuration data after recognizing the request, the suggested location based configuration information including the information from the plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of the particular data processing system;

presenting the suggested location based configuration information to the user of the mobile data processing system upon determining the suggested location based configuration information;

accepting user input from the user of the mobile data processing system for configuring the user configured location based configuration using the suggested location based configuration information including the information from the plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of the particular data processing system; and

saving the user configured location based configuration to the at least one memory of the mobile data processing system.