LOCATION-BASED TASK ACTIVATION

• US 20140032728A1
• Filed: 07/30/2012
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: O'NEIL, JOHN CONOR, McIntyre, Nathan Alan
• Application Number:
  US13/561,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20140032728A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4893 taking into account power or heat criteria power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206
• 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 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system includes a network device to process a request to perform a task, wherein the request specifies location data for an entity generating the request. A distance manager, corresponding to instructions executable by a processor, can determine an activation time for the task by the network device based on the location data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a network device to process a request to perform a task, wherein the request specifies location data for an entity generating the request; and

a distance manager, corresponding to instructions executable by a processor, to determine an activation time for the task by the network device based on the location data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the activation time includes the time to complete the task.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the distance manager is a third party component that communicates with the network device or is integrated within the network device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network device performs the task or submits an activation message to a task fulfillment component to perform the task.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the distance manager computes a distance time variable to complete the task based on the location data.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the distance manager computes the distance time variable utilizing a time estimate for the network device to become ready to begin the task, a time estimate based on task specifications, or an estimated distance based on a point of origin of the request.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the distance manager determines the estimated distance based on a static parameter specified in the request or a dynamic parameter based on coordinates that are generated by a requesting device that generates the request.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the dynamic parameter is updated over the course of time to cause the distance time variable to be recomputed.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the dynamic parameter or the static parameter is updated from data generated from a geo-positioning system (GPS), a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, a user specification, a device parameter, a network address, a task parameter, or a biological detection system.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the network device is a printer, a copier, a fax machine, an appliance, a vehicle, a computer, a wireless control device, or an environmental control system.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a policy that controls how the distance manager determines the activation time for the task.

12. A method comprising:

analyzing, by a processor, location data specified with a request for a task,

determining, by the processor, a distance time to complete the task based on the location data; and

executing the task, by the processor, based on an estimate for the distance time.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the determining the distance time includes computing a time estimate for a device to become ready to begin the task, computing a time estimate based on task specifications, or computing an estimated distance based on a point of origin of the request.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed, cause a processor to:

process a request to perform a task, wherein the request specifies location data for an entity generating the request; and

determine a distance time variable to execute the task by the network device, wherein the distance time variable includes a time estimate for a device to become ready to begin the task, a time estimate based on task specifications, and an estimated distance based on the location data specified in the request.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to process the location data as a static parameter in the request or process the location data as a dynamic parameter in the request that is periodically updated over the course of time.