PRE-CACHING DATA RELATED TO A TRAVEL DESTINATION

• US 20130344896A1
• Filed: 10/22/2012
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Kirmse, Andrew, Hawkins, Dale, Zhu, Ronghui
• Granted Patent: US 8,954,092 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A computing system extracts, based on one or more electronic messages sent or received by a user of a mobile computing device, travel plan information associated with the user of the mobile computing device. The travel plan information may indicate a destination to which the user is planning to travel. In response to extracting the travel plan information, the computing system may send an instruction to the mobile computing device to cache, in advance of the user arriving at the destination, information associated with the destination. In this way, the mobile computing device may access the information associated with the destination while at the destination, even if the mobile computing device is unable to access the information via a wireless communication channel.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile computing device, and prior to a particular time and date, information associated with a destination, wherein the mobile computing device receives the information from a remote computing system responsive to a determination, based at least in part on text parsed from one or more electronic messages associated with a user of the mobile computing device, that a probability of the user planning to depart for the destination at the particular time and date exceeds a threshold;

storing, by the mobile computing device, and prior to the particular time and date, the information associated with the destination in a memory of the mobile computing device; and

while the mobile computing device does not have network access, outputting, by the mobile computing device and for display, a first graphical element associated with a first application that retrieves the information associated with the destination from the memory of the mobile computing device, and wherein the first graphical element associated with the first application is visually differentiated from a second graphical element associated with a second application that does not retrieve the information associated with the destination from the memory of the mobile computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the mobile computing device, a directive from a server system, the directive instructing the mobile computing device to store the information associated with the destination.

2. (canceled)

4. A method comprising:

parsing, by a computing system, one or more electronic messages to identify text associated with travel, wherein the one or more electronic messages comprise content formatted to be readable by a human;

determining, by the computing system and based at least in part on the text parsed from the one or more electronic messages, a probability of a user of a mobile computing device planning to depart for a destination at a particular time and date;

responsive to determining that the probability exceeds a threshold, extracting, by the computing system and based at least in part on the one or more electronic messages, travel plan information associated with the user, wherein the travel plan information indicates the destination, wherein extracting the travel plan information comprises;

identifying, by the computing system, a template from among a plurality of templates to form an identified template, wherein each template from the plurality of templates describes a respective format of messages associated with travel; and

parsing, by the computing system and based at least in part on the identified template, the travel plan information from the one or more electronic messages; and

responsive to extracting the travel plan information, and prior to the particular time and date sending, by the computing system to the mobile computing device, a directive for the mobile computing device to store, at a local memory of the mobile computing device, information associated with the destination.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the directive comprises at least a portion of the information associated with the destination.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the directive comprises executable instructions for storing the information associated with the destination.

7. The method of claim 4,

wherein the computing system sends the directive to the mobile computing device in response to receiving an indication from the user indicating that the mobile computing device is to store the information associated with the destination.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more electronic messages include one or more of:

an email message, a short message service (SMS) text message, a social networking service post, and an instant message.

9. The method of claim 4,

wherein the one or more electronic messages comprise an email message,

wherein identifying the template from among a plurality of templates comprises identifying, by the computing system, an email template from among a plurality of email templates to form an identified email template, each email template from the plurality of email templates describing a respective known format of email messages associated with travel, and

wherein parsing the travel plan information comprises parsing, by the computing system, and based at least in part on the identified email template, the travel plan information from the email message.

11. The method of claim 4, further comprising providing, by the computing system, a service that enables sending and receiving of the one or more electronic messages.

12. The method of claim 4, wherein the information associated with the destination includes one or more of:

data associated with a map of the destination, data associated with traveler amenities at the destination, and data associated with turn-by-turn directions between particular locations at the destination.

13. The method of claim 4, wherein sending the directive to the mobile computing device comprises sending the directive to the mobile computing device in response to extracting the travel plan information and determining, based at least in part on a data access plan associated with the mobile computing device, to send the directive.

14. The method of claim 4, wherein extracting the travel plan information comprises extracting the travel plan information based at least in part on the one or more electronic messages and one or more items included in an electronic calendar associated with the user.

35. The method of claim 4, wherein while the mobile computing device does not have network access, the mobile computing device is configured to output a first graphical element associated with a first application that retrieves the information associated with the destination from the local memory of the mobile computing device, the first graphical element associated with the first application being visually differentiated from a second graphical element associated with a second application that does not retrieve the information associated with the destination from the local memory of the mobile computing device.

10. (canceled)

15-23. -23. (canceled)

24. A computing system comprising:

a memory that stores instructions; and

one or more processors that execute the instructions, execution of the instructions configuring the computing system to;

receive one or more electronic messages comprising content formatted to be readable by a human;

parse the one or more electronic message to identify text associated with travel;

determine, based at least in part on the text parsed from the one or more electronic messages, a probability of a user of a mobile computing device planning to depart for a destination at a particular time and date;

responsive to determining that the probability exceeds a threshold, extract, from the one or more electronic messages, travel plan information associated with the user, the travel plan information indicating the destination and a date of departure to the destination, wherein extracting the travel plan information comprises;

identifying a template from among a plurality of templates to form an identified template, wherein each template from the plurality of templates describes a respective format of messages associated with travel; and

parsing, based at least in part on the identified template, the travel plan information from the one or more electronic messages; and

responsive to extracting the travel plan information, and prior to the particular time and date, send to the mobile computing device a directive for the mobile computing device to store information associated with the destination.

25. The computing system of claim 24, wherein the directive comprises at least a portion of the information associated with the destination.

26. The computing system of claim 24, wherein the directive comprises executable instructions for storing the information associated with the destination.

27. The computing system of claim 24, wherein the computing system sends the directive to the mobile computing device in response to receiving an indication from the user indicating that the mobile computing device is to store the information associated with the destination.

28. The computing system of claim 24, wherein the one or more electronic messages include one or more of:

an email message, a short message service (SMS) text message, a social networking service post, and an instant message.

29. The computing system of claim 24,

wherein the one or more electronic messages include an email message, and

wherein execution of the instructions by the one or more processors configuring the computing system to identify the template from among the plurality of templates and to parse the travel plan information further configures the computing system to:

identify an email template from among a plurality of email templates to form an identified email template, each email template from the plurality of email templates describing a respective known format of email messages associated with travel; and

parse, based at least in part on the identified email template, the travel plan information from the email message.

30. The computing system of claim 24, wherein execution of the instructions by the one or more processors configures the computing system to provide a service that enables sending and receiving of the one or more electronic messages.

31. The computing system of claim 24, wherein the information associated with the destination includes one or more of:

data associated with a map of the destination, data associated with traveler amenities at the destination, and data associated with turn-by-turn directions between particular locations at the destination.

32. The computing system of claim 24, wherein execution of the instructions by the one or more processors configures the computing system to send the directive to the mobile computing device in response to extracting the travel plan information and determining, based at least in part on a data access plan associated with the mobile computing device, to send the directive.

33. The computing system of claim 24, wherein execution of the instructions by the one or more processors configures the computing system to extract the travel plan information based at least in part on the one or more electronic messages and one or more items included in an electronic calendar associated with the user.

36. The computing system of claim 24, wherein while the mobile computing device does not have network access, the mobile computing device is configured to output a first graphical element associated with a first application that retrieves the information associated with the destination, the first graphical element associated with the first application being visually differentiated from a second graphical element associated with a second application that does not retrieve the information associated with the destination.

34. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a computing system to:

receive one or more electronic messages comprising content formatted to be readable by a human;

parse the one or more electronic messages to identify text associated with travel;

determine, based at least in part on the text parsed from the one or more electronic messages, a probability of a user of a mobile computing device planning to depart for a destination at a particular time and date;

responsive to determining that the probability exceeds a threshold, extract, from the one or more electronic messages, travel plan information associated with the user, the travel plan information indicating the destination and a date of departure to the destination, wherein extracting the travel plan information comprises;

identifying a template from among a plurality of templates to form an identified template, wherein each template from the plurality of templates describes a respective format of messages associated with travel; and

parsing, based at least in part on the identified template, the travel plan information from the one or more electronic messages; and

responsive to extracting the travel plan information, and prior to the particular time and date, send to the mobile computing device a directive for the mobile computing device to store information associated with the destination.

37. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 34, wherein while the mobile computing device does not have network access, the mobile computing device is configured to output a first graphical element associated with a first application that retrieves the information associated with the destination, the first graphical element associated with the first application being visually differentiated from a second graphical element associated with a second application that does not retrieve the information associated with the destination.