MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20160025500A1
• Filed: 10/05/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blanding Hovenweep LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Blanding Hovenweep LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hoffberg, Steven M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,551,582 B2
• 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 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/093 Data selection, e.g. prioritizing information, managing message queues, selecting the information to be output
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

a map information database;

a memory configured to store a plurality of dynamically changeable conditions and at least respective locations and expiration information associated with respective dynamically changeable conditions from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions;

a geospatial position determining system;

a radio transceiver configured to transmit a dynamically changeable condition provided by a user and to receive at least one dynamically changeable condition not entered by the user; and

a user interface controlled by a microprocessor, the user interface configured to receive the dynamically changeable condition provided by the user, and to present map information from the map information database associated with a position determined by the geospatial position determining system, together with at least one dynamically changeable condition associated with the position determined by the geospatial position determining system and further dependent on a relation of a current time and the expiration information associated with the respective dynamically changeable conditions from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.

2. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the expiration information comprises a time.

3. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the expiration information is calculated.

4. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions are sorted in an order dependent on an importance of the respective dynamically changeable conditions.

5. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions are sorted in an order dependent on a proximity of a respective location of a respective dynamically changeable condition to the position determined by the geospatial position determining system.

6. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions are sorted in an order dependent on both an importance of the respective dynamically changeable conditions and a proximity of a respective location of a respective dynamically changeable condition to the position determined by the geospatial position determining system.

7. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the geospatial position determining system is mounted in a vehicle, wherein at least one dynamically changeable condition from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions is defined based on at least an automatically-determined speed pattern of other vehicles at a respective location from among the respective locations.

8. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein at least one dynamically changeable condition from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions is defined based on at least a comparison of an automatically-determined speed pattern of other vehicles at a respective location from among the respective locations with a historical average speed at the respective location.

9. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein at least one dynamically changeable condition from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions comprises a traffic jam.

10. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the geospatial position determining system is mounted in a vehicle, and the user interface is configured to provide an advance warning of a traffic disruption to a user in the vehicle dependent on a direction of travel of the vehicle.

11. The navigation system according to claim 1, further comprising a routing system configured to determine a most efficient route to a destination location based on at least the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.

12. The navigation system according to claim 1, further comprising a routing system configured to determine a most efficient itinerary to a destination location based on at least the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.

13. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the radio transceiver comprises a digital packet data cellular transceiver.

14. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is further configured to communicate information between the radio transceiver and a corresponding radio transceiver of another navigation system.

15. The navigation system according to claim 14, wherein the user interface is further configured to automatically communicate digital information dependent on the position determined by the geospatial position determining system to the corresponding radio transceiver of the other navigation system.

16. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the radio transceiver is configured to communicate with a central database through the Internet.

17. A navigation method comprising:

receiving map information from a database;

storing a plurality of dynamically changeable conditions and at least respective locations and expiration information associated with respective dynamically changeable conditions from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions;

determining a geospatial position of an antenna based on radio frequency signals;

transmitting, through a radio transceiver, a dynamically changeable condition provided by a user;

receiving, through a radio transceiver, at least one dynamically changeable condition not entered by the user;

receiving the dynamically changeable condition provided by the user through a user interface; and

presenting the map information from the database associated with the position determined by the geospatial position determining system, together with at least one dynamically changeable condition associated with the position determined by the geospatial position determining system and further dependent on a relation of a current time and the expiration information associated with the respective dynamically changeable conditions from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the expiration information comprises a time.

19. The method according to claim 17, further comprising calculating the expiration information.

20. The method according to claim 17, further comprising sorting the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions in an order dependent on an importance of the respective dynamically changeable conditions.

21. The method according to claim 17, further comprising sorting the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions in an order dependent on a proximity of a respective location of a respective dynamically changeable condition to the position determined by the geospatial position determining system.

22. The method according to claim 17, further comprising sorting the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions in an order dependent on both an importance of the respective dynamically changeable conditions and a proximity of a respective location of a respective dynamically changeable condition to the position determined by the geospatial position determining system.

23. The method according to claim 17, wherein the geospatial position determining system is mounted in a vehicle, at least one dynamically changeable condition from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions being defined based on at least an automatically-determined speed pattern of other vehicles at a respective location from among the respective locations.

24. The method according to claim 17, further comprising defining at least one dynamically changeable condition from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions based on at least a comparison of an automatically-determined speed pattern of other vehicles at a respective location from among the respective locations with a historical average speed at the respective location.

25. The method according to claim 17, wherein at least one dynamically changeable condition from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions comprises a traffic jam.

26. The method according to claim 17, wherein the geospatial position determining system is mounted in a vehicle, further comprising providing an advance warning of a traffic disruption to a user in the vehicle through the user interface dependent on a direction of travel of the vehicle.

27. The method according to claim 17, further comprising determining a most efficient route to a destination location based on at least the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.

28. The method according to claim 17, further comprising determine a most efficient itinerary to a destination location based on at least the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.

29. The method according to claim 17, wherein the radio transceiver comprises a digital packet data cellular transceiver.

30. The method according to claim 17, further comprising communicating information between the radio transceiver and a corresponding radio transceiver of another navigation system.

31. The method according to claim 30, further comprising automatically communicating digital information through the radio transceiver to the corresponding radio transceiver of the other navigation system selectively dependent on the position determined by the geospatial position determining system.

32. The method according to claim 17, further comprising automatically communicating, through the radio transceiver and through the Internet, with a central database.

33. A navigation system comprising:

a navigational information processing system configured to determine a transit route to a destination;

a memory configured to store a plurality of dynamically changeable conditions and at least respective locations and temporal information associated with respective dynamically changeable conditions from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions;

a geospatial position determining system configured to determine a physical location;

a radio transceiver configured to communicate information using retransmitted data packets, the information comprising (a) a dynamically changeable condition entered by a user and (b) at least one dynamically changeable condition not entered by the user; and

a microprocessor-controlled user interface configured to;

receive the dynamically changeable condition entered by the user, and

present a map comprising the transit route from the navigational information processing system, with a position on the map determined by the physical location, together with at least one dynamically changeable condition associated with the physical location and further dependent on a relation of a time and the temporal information associated with the respective dynamically changeable conditions from among the plurality of dynamically changeable conditions.