Apparatus, method and medium detecting landmarks with a mobile device

• US 8,442,754 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2007
• Issued: 05/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lea, Jong-ho, Cho, Sung-bae, Lee, Yong-beom, Ryu, Hee-seob
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kim T
• Application Number:
  US11/802,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20070276591A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,182 Days
• Field of Search: 701/200, 701/213, 701/207, 701/211, 701/300, 701/408, 701/426, 706/21, 700/28, 700/30, 700/31, 700/41, 700/44, 700/45
• US Class Current: 701/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An apparatus, method and medium detecting landmarks with a mobile device. The apparatus includes a storage unit to store rules of landmarks that correspond to connection relations among items representing a user'"'"'s living patterns, an analysis unit to statistically analyze the collected log information representing a current living pattern of the user, a landmark probability inferring unit to infer in probability the landmarks according to the analyzed log information based on the stored rules, and a landmark selection unit to select a final landmark by mutually analyzing the stored rules and the inferred landmarks.

Claims

1. A mobile device for detecting landmarks, the mobile device comprising:

a storage unit to store rules of landmarks that correspond to connection relations among items representing a user'"'"'s living patterns and items representing a user'"'"'s position;

an information collection unit to collect log information representing a current living pattern of the user and position information representing a position of the user;

an analysis unit, installed within the mobile device, to analyze the log information and the position information collected using the mobile device; and

a landmark selection unit to select a final landmark by mutually analyzing the stored rules and the log information and the position information.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the log information comprises at least one of internal data generated internally and data being referred to from an external storage place, and the internal data comprises at least one of a call, an SMS message, photographing, playback of a multimedia file, a state of an appliance, and a user'"'"'s profile.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the analysis unit analyzes the collected log information based on pre-processing functions.

4. A method of detecting landmarks with a mobile device, the method comprising:

storing rules of landmarks that correspond to connection relations among items representing a user'"'"'s living patterns and items representing a user'"'"'s position;

collecting log information representing a current living pattern of the user and position information representing a position of the user;

analyzing, by way of a processor installed within the mobile device, the log information and the position information collected using the mobile device; and

selecting, by way of the processor, a final landmark by mutually analyzing the stored rules, the log information and the position information.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the log information comprises at least one of internal data generated internally and data being referred to from an external storage place, and the internal data comprises at least one of a call, an SMS message, photographing, playback of a multimedia file, a state of an appliance, and a user'"'"'s profile.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the collected log information is analyzed based on pre-processing functions.

7. At least one non-transitory medium comprising computer readable code to control at least one processing element to implement a method detecting landmarks with a mobile device, the method comprising:

storing rules of landmarks that correspond to connection relations among items representing a user'"'"'s living patterns and items representing a user'"'"'s position;

collecting log information representing a current living pattern of the user and position information representing a position of the user;

analyzing, by way of an analysis unit installed within the mobile device, the log information and the position information collected using the mobile device; and

selecting a final landmark by mutually analyzing the stored rules, the log information and the position information.

8. The medium of claim 7, wherein the log information comprises at lest one of internal data generated internally and data being referred to from an external storage place, and the internal data comprises at least one of a call, an SMS message, photographing, playback of a multimedia file, a state of an appliance, and a user'"'"'s profile.

9. The medium of claim 7, wherein the collected log information is analyzed based on pre-processing functions.