Method and arrangement relating to location based services for a communication device

• US 8,254,964 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2009
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Linden, Thomas S
• Primary Examiner(s): Pérez-Gutiérrez, Rafael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khan, Suhail
• Application Number:
  US12/391,048
• Publication Number:
  US 20100216490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,282 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

A system and method may include receiving information about a movement of a device from a motion detector of the device, receiving information about ambient sound of the device from a sound receiving portion of the device, receiving information about position of the device, corresponding the movement to a particular type of movement that is distinguished from any and/or all other types of possible movements, corresponding the ambient sound to a specific sound, relating the specific movement and the specific sound to a particular event, and providing a location of the event to a user.

Claims

1. In a first wireless communication device, a method of determining information related to a particular event based on information obtained by a plurality of second wireless communication devices associated with the particular event, the method comprising:

receiving, by the first wireless communication device and from a motion detector of each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, movement information for the plurality of second wireless communication devices;

receiving, by the first wireless communication device and from a sound receiving portion of each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, ambient sound related to the particular event;

determining, by a processor of the first wireless communication device, a position of each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices;

correlating, by the processor of the first wireless communication device, the movement information and the ambient sound to the particular event;

determining, by the processor of the first wireless communication device, a location of the particular event, based on the position of the plurality of second wireless communication devices; and

determining, by the processor of the first wireless communication device, a type of the particular event associated with the movement information and the ambient sound of the plurality of second wireless communication devices occurring at the location, based on the correlating and the location of the particular event.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving information indicative of the position of each of the second wireless communication devices from a positioning portion of each of the second wireless communication devices.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying the ambient sound received from each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices;

relating the identified sound, received from each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, to a particular type of music selected from a plurality of different types of music, and

where the type of the particular event is determined further based on relating the identified sound, received from each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, to the particular type of music.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying the movement information, for the plurality of second wireless communication devices, as corresponding to a dancing movement and not as another type of movement, and

where the type of the particular event is determined further based on identifying the movement information, for the plurality of second wireless communication devices, as corresponding to the dancing movement.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

identifying the ambient sound, received from each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices; and

relating the identified ambient sound, received from each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, to a particular type of music, and

where the type of the particular event is determined further based on relating the identified ambient sound, received from each of the plurality of second communication devices, to the particular type of music.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting the position of the particular event using a graphic representation of the location, where a size of the graphic representation is based on a quantity of second wireless communication devices comprising the plurality of second wireless communication devices.

7. The method of claim 1, where the movement information, for each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, and the ambient sound, received from each of the plurality of second wireless communication devices, are received via a communication network.

8. A computer memory device that stores computer-executable instructions, the computer-readable memory device comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to;

receive, from a motion detector of each of a plurality of wireless communication devices, motion information indicative of a movement of each of the plurality of wireless communication devices;

receive, from a sound receiving portion of each of the plurality of wireless communication devices, sound information indicative of ambient sound related to a particular event;

determine a location of each of the plurality of wireless communication devices;

correlate the movement information and the sound information to the particular event;

determine a location of the particular event, based on a position of the plurality of wireless communication devices;

identify the particular event as comprising a particular type of event associated with the movement information and the sound information of the plurality of wireless communication devices occurring at the location, based on the correlating and the location of the particular event; and

provide, via a network, information identifying the location of the particular event and information identifying the particular type of event to one or more of the plurality of wireless communication devices.