Methods and systems for pre-caching information on a mobile computing device

• US 8,769,099 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kalaboukis, Chris, Davis, Marc, Martinez, Ron
• Primary Examiner(s): Joo, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US11/617,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162686A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,742 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

Systems and methods for pre-caching information on mobile computing devices. The system and method include, based upon spatial information or temporal information associated with a user of a mobile computing device, detecting the occurrence of a first user event that precedes an associated second user event that will occur at a known time. The method and system further include identifying information corresponding to the associated second user event that will occur at the known time. The method and system also include, in response to detecting the occurrence of the first user event, transmitting to the mobile computing device the information corresponding to the associated second user event that will occur at the known time.

Claims

1. A method for pre-caching information comprising:

detecting, by a remote computing device, the occurrence of a first user event that precedes an associated second user event, the detecting further comprising detecting a unique identifier corresponding to a user of a mobile computing device;

determining an amount of time between the first user event and the second user event;

identifying, by the remote computing device, information corresponding to the associated second user event;

adjusting the information based on the amount of time; and

in response to detecting the occurrence of the first user event, transmitting to the mobile computing device the adjusted information corresponding to the associated second user event.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying step comprises:

identifying at least one database record associated with the unique identifier corresponding to the user of the mobile computing device, the at least one database record containing information corresponding to the associated second user event.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying step comprises:

identifying information from one or more vendors.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

receiving compensation from the one or more vendors for the transmitting step.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

upon an occurrence of the associated second user event, consuming at the mobile computing device the adjusted information corresponding to the associated second user event.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

receiving compensation from the one or more vendors for the consuming step.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the consuming step comprises:

displaying at the mobile computing device the adjusted information corresponding to the associated second user event.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step comprises:

detecting at least an average speed or instantaneous speed.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step comprises:

detecting at least an average velocity or instantaneous velocity.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step comprises:

detecting a heading or direction of motion.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step comprises:

detecting location data.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the first user event is associated with another user of another mobile computing device.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting the occurrence of a first user event further comprises:

aggregating user event information from a plurality of mobile computing device users.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step comprises:

detecting the consumption of information corresponding to the first user event, the information corresponding to the first user event associated with the user of the mobile computing device.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying step comprises:

identifying information from a past user event corresponding to the associated second user event.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

maintaining a user profile for the user of the mobile computing device.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the user profile includes at least one of spatial information, temporal information, the first user event, the associated second user event, and the information corresponding to the associated second user event.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step is based upon spatial information.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the detecting step is based upon temporal information.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the temporal information is associated with a user of the mobile computing device.

21. The method of claim 1 wherein the second user event will occur at a known time.

22. The method of claim 19 wherein the temporal information corresponds to the first user event.

23. The method of claim 18 wherein the spatial information is associated with a user of the mobile computing device.

24. The method of claim 18 wherein the spatial information associated with the user of the mobile computing device comprises at least one of global positioning system data, Bluetooth data, cellular network data, wireless network data, and wireline network data.

25. The method of claim 19 wherein the temporal data comprises a time or duration.

26. The method of claim 18 wherein the spatial information corresponds to the first user event.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein the spatial information comprises a location corresponding to the first user event or a location of the mobile computing device.

28. The method of claim 19 wherein the temporal information comprises a time corresponding to the first user event.

29. A system for delivering information prior to a user event comprising:

a user event module, in communication with a remote computing device, wherein the user event module maintains user events associated with at least one user of at least one mobile computing device;

an event information module, in communication with a remote computing device, wherein the event information module maintains information corresponding to events associated with the at least one user of the at least one mobile computing device;

a remote computing device configured to execute

a management module for detecting a first user event, determining an amount of time between the first user event and a second user event associated with the first user event, and identifying information corresponding to the second user event, the detecting further comprising detecting a unique identifier corresponding to the at least one user of the at least one mobile computing device; and

a communications module for adjusting the information based on the amount of time and for transmitting, prior to occurrence of the second user event, the adjusted information corresponding to the second user event to the at least one mobile computing device in communication with the remote computing device via a communications network.

30. The system of claim 29 wherein the information corresponding to the second user event comprises information maintained by at least one vendor information module in communication with the remote computing device.