Mobile location and map acquisition

• US 8,185,133 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2007
• Issued: 05/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TurboPatent Corp.
• Original Assignee: TurboPatent Corp.
• Inventors: Billmaier, James A, Billmaier, David P, Kellum, John M
• Primary Examiner(s): Afshar, Kamran
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhang, Edward
• Application Number:
  US11/893,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20080045243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,740 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/414.2, 4554561-4566
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/005 with correlation of navigation data from several sources, e.g. map or contour matching G01C21/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3896 Transmission of map data from central databases

Abstract

Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to the wireless device directions to and/or from the location to a destination within the facility.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system, comprising:

memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

wirelessly communicate a location of the device within a facility to a wireless access point within the facility, the location identified via an RFID reader interface of the mobile device;

wirelessly communicate criteria for filtering a facility directory to the wireless access point within the facility;

wirelessly receive, from the wireless access point within the facility, a directory of the facility that is filtered according to the provided criteria;

a map server, comprising memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

receive via via the internal wireless access point location information for a mobile wireless device located within the facility;

communicate with a wireless service provider to obtain directory information for the facility; and

communicate the directory information for the facility to the mobile wireless device via the internal wireless access point;

a plurality of radio frequency id (RFID) devices located within the facility;

the map server further comprising memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

receive, from the internal wireless access point, information about an RFID device; and

communicate to the wireless mobile device via the wireless access point directions from a location proximate to the RFID device to a location within the facility.

2. A system comprising:

at least one facility comprising at least one internal wireless access point;

a map server, comprising memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

receive via the internal wireless access point location information for a mobile wireless device located within the facility;

communicate with a wireless service provider to obtain directory information for the facility; and

communicate the directory information for the facility to the mobile wireless device via the internal wireless access point;

a plurality of radio frequency id (RFID) devices located within the facility;

the map server further comprising memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

receive, from the internal wireless access point, information about an RFID device; and

communicate to the wireless mobile device via the wireless access point directions from a location proximate to the RFID device to a location within the facility;

the map server further comprising memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

receive filtering criteria for a facility directory from the wireless access point within the facility;

communicate with the wireless service provider to obtain directory information for the facility filtered according to the criteria; and

communicate to the wireless mobile device, via the internal wireless access point within the facility, a directory of the facility that is filtered according to the provided criteria.

3. A system, comprising:

at least one facility comprising at least one internal wireless access point;

a plurality of radio frequency id (RFID) devices located within the facility,

the plurality of radio frequency id (RFID) devices each located proximate to a parking space;

a map server comprising memory and/or circuitry comprising logic to

receive, from the internal wireless access point, information about an RFID device, the information about the RFID device communicated from a wireless mobile device located within the facility; and

communicate to the wireless mobile device via the wireless access point directions from a location proximate to the RFID device to a location within the facility.