Automatic response to localized input

• US 8,892,082 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2011
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bi, Haifeng
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL
• Application Number:
  US13/097,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20120276919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• Field of Search: 370/395.2, 370/310, 455/435.1, 455/411, 455/415, 455/456.3, 726/3, 726/2
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

The disclosed subject matter provides automatic response to localized input. Where a first user equipment enters a service area, the presence of the first user equipment can be determined from an identification information. The identification information can be employed to access information relating to the identification information. Where either the identification information or the information associated with the identification information satisfy one or more predetermined rules, a response can be determined. The determined response can be made accessible. As such, a second user equipment can receive the response based, at least in part, on the first user equipment entering the service area.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving identification information associated with a user equipment determined to satisfy a boundary condition with respect to a zone corresponding to an extent of wireless coverage for a service area of an access point device;

receiving information associated with the identification information;

determining a notification response based on the identification information and the information associated with the identification information satisfying a first condition of a first rule and a second condition of a second rule, wherein the first rule relates to a configurable notification response preference for satisfaction of the boundary condition and the second rule relates to a temporal condition related to an elapsed time for the satisfaction of the boundary condition; and

facilitating access to the notification response by another user equipment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first rule further relates to radio frequency identification tag information included in the identification information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first rule further relates to a name in the information associated with the identification information.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first rule further relates to a designation of an interpersonal relationship status identifier in the information associated with the identification information.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first rule further relates to government identification information associated with a governmental agency in the information associated with the identification information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second rule further relates to a total elapsed time of the satisfaction of the boundary condition.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the total elapsed time comprises a sum of elapsed times within a defined time window associated with the boundary condition.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise modifying the first rule or the second rule based on an update of the configurable notification response preference.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the modifying the first rule or the second rule is facilitated by a device remotely located from the access point device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein identification information associated with the user equipment is received when the user equipment transitions a boundary edge of the service area of the access point device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein a shape of the service area approximates a spherical ellipsoid.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein a shape of the service area approximates an oblate ellipsoid or prolate ellipsoid.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein a shape of the service area approximates a tri-axial ellipsoid.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system including a processor, identification information from a user equipment determined, by the system, to satisfy a boundary condition by being within a zone based on a service area of an access point device and without reference to a stored definition of the zone;

determining, by the system, a notification response based on the identification information satisfying a condition of a first rule and a second rule, wherein the first rule relates to a configurable notification response preference for satisfaction of the boundary condition and the second rule relates to an elapsed time condition for the satisfaction of the boundary condition; and

facilitating, by the system, access to the notification response by another user equipment.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, information associated with the identification information from a first data store; and

receiving, by the system, rule information representing the first rule and the second rule from a second data store, wherein the determining the notification response is based on the identification information and the information associated with the identification information being determined to satisfy the condition of the first rule and the second rule.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein a shape of the service area approximates a spherical ellipsoid.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein a shape of the service area approximates an oblate ellipsoid or prolate ellipsoid.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein a shape of the service area approximates a scalene ellipsoid.

19. A mobile device, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving a notification response from an access point device, wherein the notification response is based on identification information and information associated with the identification information being determined to satisfy a first rule that relates to a configurable notification response preference based on the mobile device being determined to be within a boundary of a service area of the access point device and a second rule that relates to a total elapsed time, related to a first elapsed time and a second elapsed time, that the mobile device has been determined to be within a boundary of the service area of the access point device, wherein the boundary represents operable limits of the service area and is not explicitly defined by a boundary definition, and wherein the identification information is received at the access point device from the mobile device within the service area associated with the access point device;

generating an alert based on the notification response; and

facilitating access to the alert by way of a user interface of the mobile device.

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the first rule and second rule are modifiable in response to receiving an input from a user equipment located remotely from the access point device.