Identifying a resource geographically associated with one or more transceivers

• US 8,971,212 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Tandon, Dhruv, Azzolin, Deny Joao Correa
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Moutaouakil, Mounir
• Application Number:
  US12/887,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20120069771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,624 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/255
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/043 using ambient awareness, e.g. involving buildings using floor or room numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information

Abstract

A method for discovering resources includes identifying one or more geographically fixed transceivers with which a mobile device is in communication and through which the mobile device can communicate with other devices. A resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers is identified. Identification occurs without regard to a signal strength or strengths experienced between the mobile device and the one or more transceivers. The mobile device is caused to display data corresponding to the identified resource.

Claims

1. A method for discovering resources, comprising:

identifying, by at least one processor, one or more geographically fixed transceivers with which a mobile device is in communication and through which the mobile device can communicate with other devices;

identifying, by the at least one processor, a context associated with the mobile device or a user of the mobile device;

identifying, by the at least one processor without regard to a signal strength or strengths experienced between the mobile device and the one or more transceivers, a resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers and contextually associated, based on the identified context, with the mobile device or the user of the mobile device, wherein identifying the resource comprises accessing a data structure including entries each correlating a corresponding transceiver to data of one or more resources; and

causing a display by the mobile device of data corresponding to the identified resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the resource comprises identifying a geographic region corresponding to the identified one or more transceivers and identifying a resource located within the geographic region.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified resource is a print service and the causing comprises causing the mobile device to display content for use in submitting a print job to be produced by the print service.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:

identifying the context comprises identifying at least one of an ability of the mobile device to interact with one or more resource types, a user'"'"'s desire to interact with a given resource type, and requirements of a user'"'"'s desired interaction; and

identifying the resource comprises identifying the resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers and that is at least one of;

a resource with which the mobile device is able to interact;

a resource of a type which a user desire'"'"'s to interact, and

a resource compatible with the requirements of a user'"'"'s desired interaction.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a user'"'"'s desire to interact with a resource of an identified type and wherein:

causing the display comprises automatically causing a display by the mobile device of data corresponding to the identified resource only upon a determination that the identified resource is of the identified type.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising identifying requirements of the user'"'"'s desired interaction, and wherein:

causing the display comprises automatically causing a display by the mobile device of data corresponding to the identified resource only upon a determination that the identified resource is of the identified type and compatible with the requirements of the user'"'"'s desired interaction.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the resource is performed without receiving information of a geographic location of the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a given one of the entries identifies a location of the corresponding transceiver, and wherein identifying the resource further comprises comparing the location of the corresponding transceiver identified in the given entry with one or more locations of the one or more resources associated with the given entry.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:

identify one or more geographically fixed transceivers with which a mobile device is in communication and through which the mobile device can communicate with other devices;

identify a context associated with the mobile device or a user of the mobile device;

identify, without regard to a signal strength or strengths experienced between the mobile device and the one or more transceivers, a resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers and contextually associated, based on the identified context, with the mobile device or the user of the mobile device, wherein identifying the resource comprises accessing a data structure including entries each correlating a corresponding transceiver to data of one or more resources; and

cause a display by the mobile device of data corresponding to the identified resource.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein:

identifying the one or more transceivers comprises receiving data identifying the one or more transceivers; and

identifying the resource comprises receiving from the mobile device data identifying the resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein:

identifying the context comprises identifying at least one of the mobile device'"'"'s ability to interact with one or more resource types, a user'"'"'s desire to interact with a given resource type, and requirements of a user'"'"'s desired interaction; and

identifying the resource comprises identifying a resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers and that is at least one of;

a resource with which the mobile device is able to interact;

a resource of a type which a user desire'"'"'s to interact, and

a resource compatible with the requirements of a user'"'"'s desired interaction.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein identifying the resource is performed without receiving information of a geographic location of the mobile device.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein a given one of the entries identifies a location of the corresponding transceiver, and wherein identifying the resource further comprises comparing the location of the corresponding transceiver identified in the given entry with one or more locations of the one or more resources associated with the given entry, wherein the comparing produces one or more distances between the corresponding transceiver and the one or more resources associated with the given entry.

14. A system for discovering resources, comprising:

a transceiver engine configured to receive data identifying one or more geographically fixed transceivers with which a mobile device is in communication and through which the mobile device can communicate with other devices;

a resource engine configured to;

identify requirements of a user'"'"'s desired interaction with a resource of an identified type, and

identify, without regard to a signal strength or strengths experienced between the mobile device and the one or more transceivers, a resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers, wherein identifying the resource comprises accessing a data structure including entries each correlating a corresponding transceiver to data of one or more resources; and

a display engine configured to cause a display by the mobile device of data corresponding to the identified resource, only upon a determination that the identified resource is of the identified type and compatible with the requirements of the user'"'"'s desired interaction.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the identified resource is a print service and the display engine is configured to cause the mobile device to display content for use in submitting a print job to be produced by the print service.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the resource engine is configured to identify a context associated with the mobile device or a user of the mobile device and the resource engine is configured to identify the resource geographically associated with the identified one or more transceivers and contextually associated, based on the identified context, with the mobile device or the user of the mobile device.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein identifying the resource is performed without receiving information of a geographic location of the mobile device.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein a given one of the entries identifies a location of the corresponding transceiver, and wherein identifying the resource further comprises comparing the location of the corresponding transceiver identified in the given entry with one or more locations of the one or more resources associated with the given entry.