Optimization of calendar, itinerary, route plan, and PIM efficiencies according to assimilated wireless service availability conditions

• US 7,809,360 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2006
• Issued: 10/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Agrawal, Kavita, Bodin, William K., Thorson, Derral C., Rybczynski, Gregory W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, PHUOC HUU
• Application Number:
  US11/425,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20070275700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,567 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

Real-time optimization of one or more events in an electronic agenda, an electronic itinerary, an electronic calendar, or an electronic route plan, by receiving an electronic personal plan for a first user having wireless connectivity service need indications during event(s) of the plan; receiving electronic reports from devices operated by users other than the first user indicating actual historical availability conditions of the required wireless connectivity at a location associated with the event of the plan; analyzing the electronic historical reports to find an alternate time, location, route, or combination of time, location, and route, for an event responsive to determining the needed wireless connectivity would not likely meet a service quality preference according to the historical availability; modifying the electronic personal plan to reflect the alternate finding to the first user; and transmitting a communique to said first user containing said alternate findings.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a computing platform having a means for performing a logical process;

a first input portion of the computing platform receiving an electronic plan for a first user, having one or more service need indications that wireless connectivity is required during at least one event of the plan;

a second input portion of the computing platform receiving electronic reports from a plurality of devices operated by one or more users other than the first user, the reports indicating actual historical availability conditions of the required wireless connectivity at a location associated with the event of the plan;

a plan modifier portion of the computing platform analyzing the received electronic historical reports of connectivity, finding an alternate time, location, route, or combination of time, location, and route, for an event responsive to determining that the required connectivity would not likely meet a service quality preference, and modifying the electronic personal plan to reflect the alternate finding to the user; and

a user interface portion of the computing platform causing the modified electronic personal plan to be communicated to the user.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the first input is configured to receive an electronic agenda from a user.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the first input is configured to receive an electronic itinerary from a user.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the first input is configured to receive an electronic calendar from a user.

5. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the first input is configured to receive an electronic route plan from a user.

6. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the modified electronic personal plan comprises a map having one or more service availability icons reflecting said received electronic reports regarding wireless connectivity availability.

7. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the actual availability conditions comprise a signal strength measurement collected from a wireless service consumption device.

8. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the actual availability conditions comprise a data throughput measurement collected from a wireless service consumption device.

9. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the actual availability conditions comprise a channel availability measurement collected from a wireless service consumption device.

10. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the actual availability conditions comprise a service security qualifier collected from a wireless service consumption device.

11. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said modified electronic personal plan comprises a voice message.

12. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said modified electronic personal plan comprises a text message.

13. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said modified electronic personal plan comprises a navigation system instruction.

14. An automated method comprising:

receiving an electronic personal plan for a first user, having one or more service need indications that a wireless connectivity is required during at least one event of the plan;

receiving one or more electronic reports from devices operated by one or more users other than the first user, the electronic reports indicating actual historical availability conditions of the required wireless connectivity at a location associated with the event of the plan;

analyzing the received electronic historical reports to find an alternate time, location, route, or combination of time, location, and route, for an event responsive to determining the needed wireless connectivity would not likely meet a service quality preference according to the historical availability;

modifying the electronic personal plan to reflect the alternate finding to the first user; and

transmitting a communique to said first user containing said alternate findings.

15. The method as set forth in claim 14 wherein the plan comprises an electronic plan selected from the group of an electronic agenda, an electronic itinerary, an electronic calendar, and an electronic route plan.

16. The method set forth claim 14 wherein the communique comprises a communication selected from the group of a voice message, a text message, and email, a web page, and an instruction in a navigational system.

17. The method as set forth in claim 14 wherein the actual availability conditions comprise at least one condition selected from the group of a signal strength measurement collected from a wireless service consumption device, a data throughput measurement collected from a wireless service consumption device, a channel availability measurement collected from a wireless service consumption device, and a service security qualifier collected from a wireless service consumption device.

18. The method as set forth in claim 14 wherein the step of modifying the plan comprises annotating an electronic map to produce a map having one or more service availability icons reflecting said received reports.

19. A computer readable storage memory comprising:

a computer-readable storage memory suitable for storing computer-executable code;

computer-executable code stored in the storage memory configured to cause a computer to;

receive an electronic personal plan for a first user having one or more service need indications that a wireless connectivity is required during at least one event of the plan;

receive one or more electronic reports from devices operated by one or more users other than the first user, the electronic reports indicating actual historical availability conditions of the required wireless connectivity at a location associated with the event of the plan;

analyze the received electronic historical reports to find an alternate time, location, route, or combination of time, location, and route, for an event responsive to determining the needed wireless connectivity would not likely meet a service quality preference according to the historical availability;

modify the electronic personal plan to reflect the alternate finding to the first user; and

transmit a communique to said first user containing said alternate findings.

20. The computer readable storage memory as set forth in claim 19 wherein the plan comprises an electronic plan selected from the group of an electronic agenda, an electronic itinerary, an electronic calendar, an electronic route plan, and a map.