Method and means for browsing by walking

• US 8,527,483 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2011
• Issued: 09/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Suinno Oy
• Original Assignee: Mikko Vaananen
• Inventors: Vnnen, Mikko
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruiz, Angelica
• Application Number:
  US13/021,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20120203750A1
• Time in Patent Office: 942 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-831, 707/899, 707999001-999206
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0619 Neutral agent
• 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

A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen.

Claims

1. A mobile search method, comprising:

providing at least one mobile station with a communication network connection;

determining an initial location of the mobile station;

connecting said mobile station to at least one communication network of at least one computer;

receiving, by a user, an input query;

having at least one search engine conduct at least one initial search in at least one mobile station file system, the Internet or a file system in the network based on the input query with the initial location as a search parameter and continuously automatically conducting, without receiving another input query from the user, at least one subsequent search based on the input query and a subsequent location of the mobile station, the search engine being a computer program embodied on a non-transitory medium; and

producing, by the mobile station, a light, a sound or a vibration alarm when at least one search result of the subsequent search reaches a certain relevance threshold, the search result relevance threshold being a measurement of a match between the location of the mobile station in relation to a location of said search result.

2. The mobile search method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

automatic transition from at least one of determining the location of the mobile station to comparing the location to street addresses, from comparing the location to street addresses to inputting at least one term to the search engine, from inputting the at least one term to the search engine to the search engine searching at least one of the file system or the internet, from searching at least one of the file system or the internet to displaying at least one search result on a screen, or from displaying the at least one search result on the screen to updating parameters to refresh search results as location and time change.

3. The mobile search method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a user may enter a term into the mobile station by text input or speech and said search results are searched or ranked based on said at least one user term.

4. The mobile search method as claimed in claim 1, wherein as at least one of the mobile station changes location or time goes by, at least one of location data or time are updated automatically and the subsequent search is conducted automatically based on at least one of the changed location data or time.

5. The mobile search method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one search result is a webpage with an electronic form and the mobile station software automatically fills one or more entries on an electronic form based on data in a memory or storage of the mobile station.

6. The mobile search method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile station at least one of stores or prints at least one of a file of the search result or a file of a filled electronic form and stores said file.

7. The mobile search method as claimed in claim 6, wherein said file is at least one of stored or sent to a different computer over the network, and data in said file is inputted into at least one of a financial or archiving software.

8. A mobile station, comprising:

a screen; and

one or more processors configured to determine an initial location of the mobile station, configured to receive, by a user, an input query, and configured to connect to a communication network of at least one computer,

wherein at least one search engine is configured to conduct at least one initial search in at least one mobile station file system, the Internet or a file system in the network based on the input query with the initial location as a search parameter and to continuously automatically conduct, without receiving another input query from the user, at least one subsequent search based on the input query and a subsequent location of the mobile station, the search engine being a computer program embodied on a non-transitory medium,

at least one search result is displayed to the user on the screen of the mobile station, and

when the at least one search result of the subsequent search reaches a certain relevance threshold, the search result relevance threshold being a measurement of a match between the location of the mobile station in relation to a location of said search result, the mobile station is configured to produce at least one of a sound, a light or a vibration alarm.

9. The mobile station as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

automatic transition from at least one of determining the location of the mobile station to comparing the location to street addresses, from comparing the location to street addresses to inputting at least one term to the search engine, from inputting the at least one term to the search engine to the search engine searching at least one of the file system or the internet, from searching at least one of the file system or the internet to displaying at least one search result on a screen, or from displaying the at least one search result on the screen to updating parameters to refresh search results as location and time change.

10. The mobile station as claimed in claim 8, wherein the mobile station is arranged to receive at least one user specified term by text input or speech and said search results are ranked based on said at least one user term.

11. The mobile station as claimed in claim 8, wherein at least one webpage that is listed in said search results is provided to a user for accessing.

12. The mobile station as claimed in claim 9, wherein at least one webpage that is listed in said search results is provided to the user for accessing.

13. The mobile station as claimed in claim 8, wherein the mobile station is arranged to at least one of store or print a file of at least one of the search result or a filled electronic form and store said file.

14. The mobile station as claimed in claim 13, wherein said file is at least one of stored or sent to a different computer over the network, and data in said file is inputted into at least one of a financial or archiving software.

15. The mobile station as claimed in claim 8, wherein as at least one of the mobile station changes location or time goes by, at least one of location data or time are updated automatically and the subsequent search is conducted automatically based on at least one of changed location data or time.

16. A software program product embodied in a non-transitory storage medium and configured to cause a processor to execute a mobile search method, the mobile search method comprising:

determining an initial location of at least one mobile station;

receiving, by a user, an input query;

conducting, by at least one search engine, at least one initial search in at least one mobile station file system, the Internet or a file system in the network based on the input query with the initial location as a search parameter and continuously automatically conducting, without receiving another input query from the user, at least one subsequent search based on the input query and a subsequent location of the mobile station; and

producing at least one of a sound, a light or a vibration alarm when at least one search result of the subsequent search reaches a certain relevance threshold, the search result relevance threshold being a measurement of a match between the location of the mobile station in relation to a location of said search result.

17. The software program product as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

automatic transition from at least one of determining the location of the mobile station to comparing the location to street addresses, from comparing the location to street addresses to inputting at least one term to the search engine, from inputting the at least one term to the search engine to the search engine searching at least one of the file system or the internet, from searching at least one of the file system or the internet to displaying at least one search result on a screen, or from displaying the at least one search result on the screen to updating parameters to refresh search results as location and time change.

18. The software program product as claimed in claim 16, wherein the software program product is arranged to receive a user specified term by text input or speech and said search results are ranked based on said user term.

19. The software program product as claimed in claim 17, wherein the software program product is arranged to receive a user specified term by text input or speech and said search results are ranked based on said user term.

20. The software program product as claimed in claim 16, wherein the software program product is arranged to at least one of store or print a file of at least one of the search result or a filled electronic form and store said file.

21. The software program product as claimed in claim 20, wherein said file is at least one of stored or sent to a different computer over a network, and data in said file is inputted into at least one of financial or archiving software.