INFORMATION SEARCHING SYSTEM USING LOCATION INFORMATION

• US 20160014220A1
• Filed: 07/07/2015
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyoungseog Kim
• Original Assignee: Hyoungseog Kim
• Inventors: KIM, HYOUNGSEOG
• Application Number:
  US14/792,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20160014220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3407 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3438 Rendez-vous, i.e. searching a destination where several users can meet, and the routes to this destination for these users; Ride sharing, i.e. searching a route such that at least two users can share a vehicle for at least part of the route
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3446 Details of route searching algorithms, e.g. Dijkstra, A*, arc-flags, using precalculated routes
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an information searching system may automatically analyze the location of food trucks located near a user based on location information, allowing the user to easily select a food truck.

Claims

1. A food truck and user searching system using location information, comprising:

a location tracking unit tracking a current location of a user and a current location of a food truck using a communication terminal;

a location displaying unit displaying the current location of the user and the current location of the food truck based on location information obtained through the location tracking unit;

a messaging unit computing a distance between the user and the food truck, and when the distance is within a predetermined distance, sending a notification message;

a travel route and travel means providing unit providing a travel route and a travel means based on the location information between the user and the food truck; and

a schedule storage unit storing a schedule of the food truck, wherein a location of a food truck located within a distance preset by the user based on the current location of the user is displayed, and a notification message is sent, and wherein when there is a food truck predicted to come within the distance preset by the user based on the current location of the user based on the schedule stored in the schedule storage unit, a notification message is sent.

2. The food truck and user searching system of claim 1, wherein the location displaying unit searches and displays the current location of the user to an owner of the food truck based on the current location of the food truck.

3. The food truck and user searching system of claim 1, further comprising a food truck preference storage unit storing an evaluation point of the food truck, wherein information on an evaluation point of the food truck evaluated by the user is stored in the food truck preference storage unit.

4. The food truck and user searching system of claim 3, wherein when the food truck comes within the distance preset by the user based on the current location of the user, the location displaying unit lists food trucks in order of a shortest travel route or travel time considering a travel route, travel time and travel means of the user or lists the food trucks in order of preference of the food trucks.

5. The food truck and user searching system of claim 1, wherein the user may search a food truck and register a particular food truck as a food truck of interest, and wherein when the food truck of interest is located within the distance preset by the user, a location of the food truck of interest is displayed, and a notification message is sent.