Method and means for browsing by walking

• US 8,838,566 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2012
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Suinno Oy
• Original Assignee: Suinno Oy
• Inventors: Vaananen, Mikko
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruiz, Angelica
• Application Number:
  US13/448,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20120239644A1
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-831, 707/899, 707999201-999206
• US Class Current: 707/706
• 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. An electronic transaction method, comprising:

broadcasting a short range wireless information page signal for one or more information pages from a computer directly to a mobile station;

receiving said short range wireless information signal by the mobile station at a specific location in a range from a specific location of the computer allowing short range direct communication connection between one or more mobile stations and the computer;

searching the one or more information pages provided via the direct wireless short range broadcasted signal with a query term provided to the mobile station by a user with mobile station software or computer software; and

displaying a search result of the searching on a display of the mobile station,

wherein the search result is an electronic form, and the mobile station software automatically fills one or more entries on the electronic form based on data in a memory or a storage area of the mobile station.

2. The electronic transaction method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user enters the query term into the mobile station by text input or speech and search results are provided and ranked based on the user query term.

3. The electronic transaction method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one query term is generated by the mobile station software.

4. The electronic transaction method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user accesses at least one webpage that is listed in the search result.

5. The electronic transaction method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile station stores or prints a file of the search result or the filled electronic form and stores the file.

6. The electronic transaction method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the file is stored or transmitted to a different computer over a network, and data in the file is inputted into a financial or archiving software.

7. The electronic transaction method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, as the mobile station changes location, some short range wireless information page signals come into range and some short range wireless information page signals fall out of range, and

the method further comprises conducting a new search based on changed wireless information page signals, and optionally displaying results of the new search on the display of the mobile station.

8. The mobile station as claimed in claim 1, wherein, as the mobile station changes location, some short range wireless information page signals come into range and some short range wireless information page signals fall out of range,

a new search is conducted based on changed short range wireless information page signals, and

optionally results of the new search are displayed on the display of the mobile station.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising producing one or more of a sound, light and a vibration signal at the mobile station when the search result reaches a specific relevance level.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising storing a click-through rate from one or more of a location of a user and a location of the mobile station for the search result.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising accessing a broadcasted information page of the short range wireless information page signal on the computer listed as the search result, via a short range wireless connection using the mobile station.

12. A mobile station, comprising:

a display; and

a processor, configured to directly receive a broadcasted short range wireless information page signal for one or more information pages from a computer when the mobile station, at a specific location, is in a range from a specific location of the computer allowing short range direct communication connection between one or more mobile stations and the computer,

wherein mobile station software running on the processor of the mobile station or computer software running on the computer is configured to search the one or more information pages provided via the direct wireless short range broadcasted signal with a query term provided to the mobile station by a user, and

a search result of the searching is displayed on the display of the mobile station,

wherein the search result is an electronic form, and the mobile station software automatically fills one or more entries on the electronic form based on data in a memory or a data storage area of the mobile station.

13. The mobile station as claimed in claim 12, wherein the mobile station receives a user-specified term by text input or speech and search results are provided and ranked based on the user-specified term.

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

15. The mobile station as claimed in claim 12, wherein the mobile station stores or prints a file of the search result or the filled electronic form and stores the file.

16. The mobile station as claimed in claim 15, wherein the file is stored or transmitted to a different computer over a network, and data in the file is inputted into a financial or archiving software.

17. The mobile station as claimed in claim 12, wherein a broadcasted information page of the short range wireless information page signal listed as the search result is accessed on the computer via a short range wireless connection using the mobile station.

18. A network server system, comprising:

one or more processors configured to broadcast a short range wireless information page signal directly to a mobile station at a specific location in a range from a network server allowing short range direct communication connection between one or more mobile stations and the network server,

wherein mobile station software running on the mobile station or software running on the one or more processors of a network server is configured to search the one or more information pages provided via the direct wireless short range broadcasted signal with a query term provided to the mobile station by a user, and

a search result of the searching is displayed on a display of the mobile station,

wherein the search result is an electronic form, and one or more of the mobile station software and a network server automatically fills one or more entries on the electronic form based on data in a memory or a data storage area of one or more of the mobile station and a network server.

19. The network server system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the mobile station receives a user-specified term by text input or speech and search results are provided and ranked based on the user-specified term.

20. The network server system as claimed in claim 18, wherein at least one webpage that is listed in the search result is provided to the user for accessing.

21. The network server system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the mobile station stores or prints a file of the search result or the filled electronic form and stores the file in the network server.

22. The network server system as claimed in claim 21, wherein the file is stored or transmitted to a different computer over a network, and data in the file is inputted into financial or archiving software.

23. The network server system as claimed in claim 18, wherein, as the mobile station changes location, some short range wireless information page signals come into range and some short range wireless information page signals fall out of range,

a new search is conducted based on changed short range wireless information page signals, and

results of the new search are optionally displayed on a display of the mobile station.

24. The network server as claimed in claim 18, wherein a broadcasted information page of the short range wireless information page signal listed as the search result is accessed via a short range wireless connection using the mobile station.

25. A software program product embodied on a non-transitory storage medium configured to cause a processor to execute a search method, the search method comprising:

one or more of receiving, at a mobile station, and broadcasting by a computer and a communication link, a broadcasted short range wireless information page signal for one or more information pages, the mobile station having a specific location in a range from a specific location of the computer allowing direct communication connection between one or more mobile stations and the computer, the computer broadcasting the wireless information page signal;

searching the one or more information pages provided via the direct wireless short range broadcasted signal with a query term received from the mobile station and provided to the mobile station by a user; and

displaying a search result of the searching on a display of the mobile station,

wherein the search result is an electronic form, and the software program product causes at least one entry on the electronic form to be automatically filled based on data in a memory or a data storage area of the mobile station.

26. The software program product as claimed in claim 25, wherein the software program product is configured to receive a user-specified term by text input or speech, and search results are provided and ranked based on the user-specified term.

27. The software program product as claimed in claim 25, wherein at least one webpage that is listed in the search results is provided to the user at the mobile station for accessing.

28. The software program product as claimed in claim 25, wherein the software program product causes a file of the search result or the filled electronic form to be stored or the file to be printed and stored.

29. The software program product as claimed in claim 28, wherein the file is arranged to be stored or transmitted to a different computer over a network, and data in the file is inputted into financial or archiving software.

30. The software program product as claimed in claim 25, wherein, as the mobile station changes location, some of the short range wireless information page signals come into range and some short range wireless information page signals fall out of range,

a new search is conducted based on changed short range wireless information page signals, and

results of the new search are optionally displayed on a display of the mobile station.

31. The software program product as claimed in claim 25, wherein the search method further comprises accessing a broadcasted information page of the short range wireless information page signal on the computer listed as the search result, via a short range wireless connection using the mobile station.