SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING POINTS OF INTEREST BASED ON A LOCATION HISTORY

• US 20150186958A1
• Filed: 03/27/2012
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: JACKSON, Dean Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US13/431,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20150186958A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• 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

Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for rating points of interest (POIs) using a mobile device location history are provided. Multiple location information may be received from a mobile device. For some location information of the multiple location information, POIs associated with the location information may be identified. A location history based on the identified POIs may be generated. The location history may comprise a POI list including one or more POIs visited by a user of the mobile device. A rating interface may be generated based on the location history to enable rating of one or more POIs of the POI list subsequent to a time associated with a received location coordinate for which the at least one POI was identified. The system, in one aspect, may include a communication module, an identification module, a location history module, an interface module, memory, and a display device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server, location information for a plurality of locations from a mobile device associated with a user, the locations being locations at which the mobile device was present;

identifying by the server, using the received location information, points-of-interest (POIs) associated with at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations;

generating, by the server, a location history based on the POIs, the location history comprising data objects identifying the POIs; and

transmitting, by the server, to a device authorized by the user, at least a portion of the location history and instructions for causing the authorized device to display a graphical user interface and prompt the user to provide responses to POIs in the location history.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the received location information comprises at least one of a geographical latitude and longitude, global positioning system (GPS) information, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) or other wireless transmitter source information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the location history further comprises chronological information indicating when the mobile device was present at each of the POIs, the chronological information being received with the location information for at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the location history further comprises chronological information indicating a respective duration of time that the mobile device was present at each of the POIs.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the location history transmitted, by the server, is limited to POIs at which the mobile device was present for at least a threshold duration of time.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the location history transmitted, by the server, is limited to POIs for which the server does not have a response from the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the location history transmitted, by the server, is limited to POIs for which the server does not have at least a threshold number of responses from users.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a map in which POIs are marked or a table including POI identifying information.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the graphical user interface further allows the user of the mobile device to confirm, for each displayed POI, at least one of:

the user has visited that POI or

the user intends to rate that POI.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the graphical user interface comprises, for each displayed POI, a graphical element that permits the user to select a graded rating for the respective POI.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the server receives location information for those locations at which the user has interacted with the mobile device to record the user'"'"'s presence at the respective location, and wherein the location history is limited to POIs corresponding to such locations.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the graphical user interface is initiated by at least one of a push or a pull mode, the push mode comprising receiving from the user of a mobile device a request for an interface to provide user responses to POIs in the location history, and the pull mode comprising sending an electronic message to the mobile device to request the user of the mobile device to provide user responses to POIs in the location history.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the server receives location information from a plurality of mobile devices, each associated with a user, and wherein each location history is stored in a secure format with information associating the location history with the corresponding user.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein each data object identifying the identified POIs comprises a unique identifier referencing the POI in a POI database.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein each data object identifying the identified POIs comprises a descriptive name, a latitude, and a longitude for the respective POI.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorized device to which server transmits at least a portion of the location history and instructions for causing the authorized device to display a graphical user interface is a device other than the mobile device.

17. A method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device from a location service on the device, location information for a plurality of locations, the locations being locations at which the mobile device was present;

identifying, by the mobile device, POIs associated with at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations by at least querying one or more of a database or a remote service;

storing, by the mobile device, a location history based on the POIs, the location history comprising data objects identifying the POIs; and

displaying, the mobile device, a graphical user interface that prompts the user to provide responses to POIs in the location history.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the received location information comprises at least one of a geographical latitude and longitude, global positioning system (GPS) information, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), or other wireless transmitter source information.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the location history further comprises chronological information indicating at least one of when the mobile device was present at each of the POIs or a respective duration of time that the mobile device was present at each of the POIs, and wherein the chronological information is received with the location information for at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the stored location history is limited to POIs at which the mobile device was present for at least a threshold duration of time, and wherein the method further comprises transmitting the responses to the POIs in the location history to a server.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising generating the location history comprising data objects identifying POIs at which the mobile device was present for at least a threshold duration of time.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the graphical user interface comprises at least one of a map in which POIs are marked or a table including POI identifying information, and wherein the graphical user interface further comprises, for each displayed POI, a graphical element that permits the user to select a graded rating for the respective POI.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein the graphical user interface further allows the user of the mobile device to confirm, for each displayed POI, at least one of:

the user has visited that POI or

the user intends to rate that POI.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein each data object identifying the identified POIs comprises a unique identifier referencing the POI in a POI database, and wherein each data object identifying the identified POIs comprises at least one of a descriptive name, a latitude, or a longitude for the respective POI.

25. A system comprising:

a communication module configured to receive location information for a plurality of locations from a mobile device associated with a user, the locations being locations at which the mobile device was present;

memory to store a database of location information, wherein the location information is based on the plurality of location information received from one or more mobile devices;

an identification module configured to identify, using the received location information, POIs associated with at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations; and

a location history module configured to generate a location history based on the POIs, the location history comprising data objects identifying the POIs, and

wherein the communication module is further configured to transmit to a device authorized by the user, at least a portion of the location history and instructions for causing the authorized device to display a graphical user interface and prompt the user to provide responses to POIs in the location history.

26. The system of claim 25, further comprising;

a POI database including location information of a number of POIs,

wherein the location history module is further configured to retrieve location information for at least a portion of the number of POIs and generate, based on the location information for the portion of the number of POIs, the location history, wherein the location history includes chronological information indicating when the mobile device was present at the POIs, the chronological information being received with the location information for at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein the location history module is further configured to generate the location history comprising chronological information indicating the duration that the mobile device was present at the POIs.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein the portion of the location history transmitted is limited to at least one of POIs for which the system does not have a response from the user or POIs for which the server does not have at least a threshold number of responses from users.

29. The system of claim 25, further comprising an interface module configured to generate the graphical user interface comprising a map in which POIs are marked or a table including POI identifying information and a graphical element that permits the user to select a graded rating for the respective POI, and wherein the graphical user interface allows the user of the mobile device to confirm, for each displayed POI, at least one of:

the user has visited that POI or

the user intends to rate that POI.

30. The system of claim 25, wherein the communication module is configured to receive location information for those locations at which the user has interacted with the mobile device to record the user'"'"'s presence at the respective location, and wherein the location history is limited to POIs corresponding to such locations.

31. The system of claim 25, wherein the communication module is configured to receive location information from a plurality of mobile devices, each associated with a user, and wherein the memory is configured to store each location history in a secure format with information associating the location history with the corresponding user.

32. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a server, cause the server to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at the server, location information for a plurality of locations from a mobile device associated with a user, the locations being locations at which the mobile device was present;

identifying by the server, using the received location information, POIs associated with at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations;

generating, by the server, a location history based on the POIs, the location history comprising data objects identifying the POIs; and

transmitting, by the server, to a device authorized by the user, at least a portion of the location history and instructions for causing the authorized device to display a graphical user interface and prompt the user to provide responses to POIs in the location history.

33. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by the mobile device from a location service on the device, location information for a plurality of locations, the locations being locations at which the mobile device was present;

identifying, by the mobile device, POIs associated with at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations by at least querying one or more of a database or a remote service;

storing, by the mobile device, a location history based on the POIs, the location history comprising a data objects identifying the POIs; and

displaying a graphical user interface that prompts the user to provide responses to POIs in the location history.

34. A mobile device comprising:

a location manager configured to receive, from a location service on the device, location information for a plurality of locations, the locations being locations at which the mobile device was present;

a processor configured to identify, by querying a database or a remote service, POIs associated with at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations;

memory to store a location history, wherein the location history is determined based on the identified POIs, the location history comprising data objects identifying the identified POIs; and

a display to display a graphical user interface that prompts the user to provide responses to POIs in the location history.

35. The mobile device of claim 34, wherein the received location information comprises at least one of a geographical latitude and longitude, global positioning system (GPS) information, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), or other wireless transmitter source information.

36. The mobile device of claim 34, wherein the memory is further configured to store the location history further comprising chronological information indicating at least one of when the mobile device was present at each of the POIs or a respective duration that the mobile device was present at each of the POIs, the chronological information being received with the location information for at least some of the locations of the plurality of locations.

37. The mobile device of claim 36, wherein the memory is further configured to store location history limited to POIs at which the mobile device was present for at least a threshold duration of time.

38. The mobile device of claim 34, further comprising:

a communication module configured to transmit to a server the responses to the POIs in the location history, receive, from the server, one or more location histories comprising data objects identifying POIs at which the mobile device was present for at least a threshold duration, wherein the one or more location histories received from the server is limited to at least one of POIs for which the user of the mobile device has not transmitted any response or POIs for which the user of the mobile device has not transmitted a threshold number of responses.

39. The mobile device of claim 34, wherein the display is further configured to display a graphical user interface comprising at least one of a map in which POIs are marked or a table including POI identifying information, and wherein the graphical user interface further comprises, for each displayed POI, a graphical element that permits the user to select a graded rating for the respective POI.

40. The mobile device of claim 34, wherein the display is further configured to display the graphical user interface that allows the user of the mobile device to confirm, for each displayed POI, at least one of:

the user has visited that POI or

the user intends to rate that POI.

41. The mobile device of claim 34, wherein each data object identifying the identified POIs comprises a unique identifier referencing the POI in a POI database, and wherein each data object identifying the identified POIs comprises at least one of a descriptive name, a latitude, or a longitude for the respective POI.

42. A method comprising:

receiving location information from each of the plurality of mobile devices, the location information from each mobile device comprising a plurality of locations at which the mobile device was present;

identifying, for each of the plurality of mobile devices, points of interest (POIs) associated with at least some of the locations identified in the received location information;

storing, for each of the plurality of mobile devices, a location history comprising a POI list including at least one POI of the one or more POIs;

sending, to at least some of the mobile devices, a respective prompt to elicit a user rating for one or more POIs associated with locations at which the mobile device was present, the POIs being identified by the stored location history; and

providing, to each of the plurality of mobile devices, a respective rating interface determined based on the location history for the corresponding mobile device, the respective rating interface enabling rating of at least one POI of the POI list and being provided at a time subsequent to a time when the device was present at the at least one POI.

43. The method of claim 42, further comprising aggregating ratings received from multiple devices of different users.

44. The method of claim 43, further comprising providing an overall rating of a POI based on the aggregated ratings to a user of a mobile device located near the POI.

45. The method of claim 42, further comprising generating a user interface that shows on a map location information of a number of POIs and allows the user to rank each POI by clicking on a number of stars shown for that POI.