GEO-FENCING BASED UPON SEMANTIC LOCATION

• US 20140171099A1
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Sydir, Jaroslaw J., Skeba, Kirk W., LaMarca, Anthony G., Agerstam, Mats G.
• Application Number:
  US13/715,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20140171099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Described herein are technologies for geo-fencing based upon semantic locations. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a location-awareness system configured to track semantic locations of the mobile device;

a place manager configured to determine whether a present semantic location has changed so that it differs from a previous semantic location, wherein such determination is based upon the tracked semantic locations;

a geo-fence manager configured to;

determine whether the present semantic location and the previous semantic location are commonly geo-fenced, wherein such determination is in response to the change;

trigger a geo-fence notification in response to a determination that the present semantic location and the previous semantic location are not commonly geo-fenced.

2. A mobile device as recited by claim 1 further comprising an action manager that is configured to, in response to the geo-fence notification, perform a predetermined action.

3. A mobile device as recited by claim 1 further comprising an action manager that is configured to, in response to the geo-fence notification, send a message to one or more predetermined recipients.

4. A mobile device as recited by claim 1 further comprising an action manager that is configured to, in response to the geo-fence notification, launch a predetermined application on the mobile device.

5. A mobile device as recited by claim 1, wherein the location-awareness system is further configured to:

encounter one or more ambient identifiable wireless signal (IWS) sources, wherein upon such an encountering, the location-awareness system is further configured to;

detecting the one or more ambient IWS sources; and

identifying unique identification of the detected ambient IWS sources;

recognize a particular semantic location based at least in part upon the identified one or more ambient IWS sources being associated with the present semantic location in a database of such associations.

6. A mobile device as recited by claim 1, wherein the geo-fence manager is further configured to trigger before the mobile device reaches a predicted destination location of route that the mobile device is traveling along.

7. A mobile device as recited by claim 1, further comprising a route manager configured to recognize a present route being traveled by the mobile device and predict destination location based upon the recognized route, wherein the geo-fence manager is further configured to trigger the geo-fence notification before the mobile device reaches the predicted destination location of the recognized present route.

8. A mobile device as recited by claim 7, wherein the route manager is further configured to recognize the present route by, at least in part, a comparison of a portion of a series of encountered ambient IWS sources with one or more known routes.

9. A mobile device as recited by claim 1, wherein the present or previous location is mobile.

10. A mobile device comprising:

a location-awareness system configured to track semantic locations of the mobile device;

a place manager configured to determine whether a change in semantic locations has occurred so that a present semantic location differs from a previous semantic location, wherein such determination is based upon the tracked semantic locations;

a geo-fence manager configured to;

determine whether the present semantic location is geo-fenced, wherein such determination is in response to the change;

trigger a geo-fence notification in response to a determination that the present semantic location is geo-fenced.

12. A mobile device as recited by claim 10 further comprising an action manager that is configured to, in response to the geo-fence notification, send a message to one or more predetermined recipients.

13. A mobile device as recited by claim 10 further comprising an action manager that is configured to, in response to the geo-fence notification, launch a predetermined application on the mobile device.

14. A mobile device as recited by claim 10, wherein the location-awareness system is further configured to:

encounter one or more ambient identifiable wireless signal (IWS) sources, wherein upon such an encountering, the location-awareness system is further configured to;

detecting the one or more ambient IWS sources; and

identifying unique identification of the detected ambient IWS sources;

recognize a particular location based at least in part upon the identified one or more ambient IWS sources being associated with the present location in a database of such associations.

15. A mobile device as recited by claim 10, wherein the geo-fence manager is further configured to trigger before the mobile device reaches a predicted destination location of route that the mobile device is traveling along.

16. A mobile device as recited by claim 10, further comprising a route manager configured to recognize a present route being traveled by the mobile device and predict destination location based upon the recognized route, wherein the geo-fence manager is further configured to trigger the geo-fence notification before the mobile device reaches the predicted destination location of the recognized present route.

11. (canceled)

17. A method comprising:

tracking semantic locations of a mobile device;

based upon the tracked semantics locations, determining whether a present semantic location has changed so that it differs from a previous semantic location;

in response to the change, determining whether the present semantic location and the previous semantic location are commonly geo-fenced;

triggering a geo-fence notification in response to determination that the present semantic location and the previous semantic location are not commonly geo-fenced.

18. A method as recited by claim 17 further comprising, in response to the geo-fence notification, performing a predetermined action based, at least in part, upon either or both the previous or present semantic location.

19. A method as recited by claim 17 further comprising, in response to the geo-fence notification, sending a message to one or more predetermined recipient, wherein the message sent is based, at least in part, upon either or both the previous or present semantic location.

20. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with processor-executable instructions stored thereon which when executed by one or more processors cause performance of operations comprising:

tracking semantic locations of a mobile device;

based upon the tracked semantics locations, determining whether a present semantic location has changed so that it differs from a previous semantic location;

in response to the change, determining whether the present semantic location or the previous semantic location are geo-fenced;

triggering a geo-fence notification in response to determination that the present semantic location or the previous semantic location are geo-fenced.

21. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 20, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to the geo-fence notification, performing a predetermined action.

22. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 20 wherein the operations further comprise, in response to the geo-fence notification, sending a message to one or more predetermined recipient.

23. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 20 wherein the operations further comprise, in response to the geo-fence notification, launching a predetermined application on the mobile device.

24. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 20, wherein the tracking of the semantic locations includes:

encountering one or more ambient identifiable wireless signal (IWS) sources, wherein the encountering includes;

detecting the one or more ambient IWS sources; and

identifying unique identification of the detected ambient IWS sources;

recognizing a particular semantic location based at least in part upon the identified one or more ambient IWS sources being associated with the present semantic location in a database of such associations.

25. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 20, wherein the triggering occurs before the mobile device reaches a predicted destination location of route that the mobile device is traveling along.

26. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 20, the operations further comprise:

recognizing present route being traveled by the mobile device;

predicting destination location based upon the recognized route,

wherein the triggering of the geo-fence notification occurs before the mobile device reaches the predicted destination location of recognized present route.

27. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 26, wherein the recognizing of the present route includes comparing a portion of a series of encountered ambient IWS sources with one or more known routes.

28. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with processor-executable instructions stored thereon which when executed by one or more processors cause performance of operations comprising:

encountering one or more ambient identifiable wireless signal (IWS) sources, wherein the encountering includes;

detecting the one or more ambient IWS sources; and

identifying unique identification of the detected ambient IWS sources;

defining a particular semantic location based, at least in part upon, the identified one or more ambient IWS sources;

geo-fencing the particular semantic location, wherein the particular semantic location is, at least part of, a geo-fenced place;

storing, in a database, an association between the particular semantic location, the geo-fenced place, and the identified one or more ambient IWS sources.

29. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 28 further comprising sharing the particular semantic location, the geo-fenced place, and the identified one or more ambient IWS sources, and/or the associations therebetween with other mobile devices on a network.

30. One or more computer-readable media as recited by claim 28, wherein the geo-fenced place is associated with multiple semantic locations.