Location based services virtual bookmarking

• US 7,571,124 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2001
• Issued: 08/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William Kress
• Primary Examiner(s): GORT, ELAINE L
• Application Number:
  US09/961,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20030061110A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,871 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705/27, 705/22, 705/28
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A location based service creates a bookmark to a physical point of interest by detecting a consumer presence at a physical location using a presence detector; determining a physical location and identity of the consumer from an identifier; prior to receiving a selection from the consumer, determining a set of points of interest in the physical vicinity; pushing to a consumer pervasive device the set of points of interest in the vicinity of the consumer; and receiving a selection by the consumer from the pushed set of points of interest; storing on a server the received selection to create a point of interest bookmark associated with the consumer.

Claims

1. A method for providing location based services to create bookmarks to physical points of interest, comprising:

detecting a consumer presence at a physical location using a presence detector associated with said physical location;

determining said physical location and an identity of a consumer from a consumer identifier;

prior to receiving a selection from said consumer, determining a set of points of interest in a physical vicinity of said consumer;

pushing to a consumer pervasive device said set of correlated points of interest in the physical vicinity of said consumer;

receiving at least one selection by said consumer from said pushed set of points of interest; and

storing on a server said at least one received selection to create a point of interest bookmark associated with said consumer and having an indicator of said physical location, a description of said point of interest and zero, one or more information attachments containing information about said point of interest; and

creating a bookmark for points of interest selected from said set, said bookmark providing a user-selectable link to said stored set on said bookmark server for later access by said consumer using a networked computing device.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said step of determining a location and identity of a consumer comprises employing a technology selected from a group comprising Bluetooth and at least one RFID tag associated with said consumer.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said step of pushing further comprises correlating said set of points of interest to one or more consumer preferences.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3 wherein said step of correlating to one or more consumer preferences comprises correlating to a preference selected from a group comprising size, price, style, brand and performance feature.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said step of pushing comprises displaying a list on a wireless telephone.

6. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said step of pushing comprises displaying a list on a networked personal digital assistant.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said step of creating a bookmark comprises creating a hyperlink on a web page on a web server.

8. The method as set forth in claim 1 further comprising the step of transmitting detailed information regarding said selected points of interest to a consumer'"'"'s receiving address.

9. A computer readable memory comprising:

a computer readable memory suitable for encoding computer programs; and

one or more computer programs encoded by said computer readable memory, said programs when executed performing;

detecting a consumer presence at a physical location using a presence detector associated with said physical location;

determining said physical location and an identity of a consumer from a consumer identifier;

prior to receiving a selection from said consumer, determining a set of points of interest in a physical vicinity of said consumer;

pushing to a consumer pervasive device said set of points of interest in the physical vicinity of said consumer;

receiving at least one selection by said consumer from said pushed set of points of interest; and

storing on a server said at least one received selection to create a point of interest bookmark associated with said consumer and having an indicator of said physical location, a description of said point of interest and zero, one or more information attachments containing information about said point of interest; and

creating a bookmark for points of interest selected from said set, said bookmark providing a user-selectable link to said stored information items on said bookmark server for later access by said consumer using a networked computing device.

10. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 9 wherein said determining a location and identity of a consumer comprises employing a technology selected from a group comprising Bluetooth and at least one RFID tag associated with said consumer.

11. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 9 wherein said pushing comprises correlating points of interest to one or more consumer preferences.

12. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 11 wherein said correlating points of interest to one or more consumer preferences comprises correlating to a preference selected from a group comprising size, price, style, brand and performance feature.

13. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 9 wherein said pushing comprises displaying a list on a wireless telephone.

14. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 9 wherein said pushing comprises displaying a list on a networked personal digital assistant.

15. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 9 wherein said storing a bookmark comprises creating a hyperlink on a web page on a web server.

16. The computer readable memory as set forth in claim 9 further comprising computer program encoded by said computer readable memory transmitting detailed information regarding said selected items to a consumer'"'"'s receiving address.

17. A system for providing location based service to create bookmarks to physical points of interest, comprising:

a presence detector detecting a consumer present at a physical location;

a consumer identification and location subsystem when executed performing;

(a) determining a consumer'"'"'s identification and said physical location using a consumer identifier;

(b) prior to receiving a selection from said consumer, determining a set of points of interest in a physical vicinity of said consumer; and

(c) pushing said set of points of interest in the consumer'"'"'s physical vicinity to a consumer pervasive device; and

a server storing in computer memory a consumer'"'"'s selection from said pushed set of points of interest to create a bookmark associated with said consumer and having an indicator of said physical location, a description of said point of interest and zero, one or more information attachments containing information about said point of interest.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein said server transmits one or more electronic documents containing detailed information regarding said selected items.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein said consumer identifier comprises a device selected from a group comprising an RFID tag associated with said consumer, and a Bluetooth-equipped pervasive computing device and receiver.

20. The system of claim 17 wherein said consumer pervasive device is selected from a group comprising a wireless-application protocol enabled cellular telephone, a wireless-network enabled personal digital assistant, and a wireless-network enabled portable computer.