Mobile communication device

• US 8,629,789 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2013
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Steven Mark Hoffberg
• Original Assignee: Steven Mark Hoffberg
• Inventors: Hoffberg, Steven M.
• Primary Examiner(s): BLOUNT, ERIC
• Application Number:
  US13/764,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20130165070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 336 Days
• Field of Search: 340/988, 340/905, 340/990, 340/995.1, 340/995.14, 340/539.13, 340/995.13, 455/404.1, 455/456.1, 455/404.2, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 340/995.13
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/093 Data selection, e.g. prioritizing information, managing message queues, selecting the information to be output
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof.

Claims

1. A method for issuing an alert to a mobile system, comprising:

receiving environmental data for a set of locations at specified times;

determining spatial-temporal characteristics of the environmental data;

determining a location of the mobile system; and

issuing an alert based on the determined location, determined spatial-temporal characteristics, and a time.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the alert comprises a hazard alert.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental data comprises weather data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental data comprises traffic data.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental data comprises impending collision data.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising predicting an importance to a user of the environmental data.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising prioritizing a plurality of alerts in dependence on at least the predicted importance of the environmental data to the user.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the predicted importance of the environmental data to a respective user differs from the predicted importance of the environmental data to another respective user.

9. The method according to claim 1, the environmental data is received through a cellular communication system.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location is determined based on at least one signal received from an earth orbiting satellite.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting environmental data relating to the determined location of the mobile system through a cellular communication system.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising communicating the environmental data through the Internet.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising presenting the issued alter through at least a voice interface.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental data is communicated through a channel which at least one of a secure encrypted communications channel and a cryptographically authenticated communications channel.

15. The method according to claim 1, further comprising presenting at least one of commercially sponsored information and advertising information to the user in dependence on at least one of the environmental data, the determined location, and the issued alert.

16. The method according to claim 1, further comprising retrieving information referenced to the determined location from a database.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental data comprises an image representing at least one object at the determined location.

18. A mobile system for issuing an alert, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive environmental data for a set of locations at specified times;

a location determining system configured to determine a location of the mobile system; and

at least one processor configured to;

determine spatial-temporal characteristics of the environmental data; and

issuing an alert based on the determined location, a time, and the determined spatial-temporal characteristics.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the alert comprises to least one of a hazard alert, weather data, traffic data, and collision data.

20. The system according to claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to predict an importance to a user of the environmental data in user-dependent manner and to prioritize a plurality of alerts in dependence on at least the predicted importance of the environmental data to the user.

21. The system according to claim 18, further comprising a cellular communication system configured to communicate the environmental data.

22. The system according to claim 18, further comprising a global position system configured to determine the location based on at least one signal received from an earth orbiting satellite.

23. The system according to claim 18, wherein the receiver is configured to communicate with the Internet.

24. The system according to claim 18, wherein the at least one processor is configured to interact with the user through at least a voice interface.

25. The system according to claim 18, wherein the at least one processor is configured to present at least one of commercially sponsored information and advertising information to the user in dependence on at least one of the environmental data, the determined location, and the issued alert.

26. A mobile system, comprising:

a cellular communication transceiver configured to receive environmental data associated with a set of specified locations at specified times, the transceiver communicating through the Internet;

a geographic positioning system configured to determine a location of the mobile system; and

at least one processor configured to issue an alert dependent on at least spatial-temporal characteristics of the environmental data and the determined location.