System and method for application context location based configuration suggestions

• US 9,014,658 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2013
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BillJCo LLC
• Original Assignee: William J. Johnson
• Inventors: Johnson, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Miah, Liton
• Application Number:
  US13/972,014
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/16 Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/20 based on geographic position or location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/244 using a network of reference devices, e.g. beaconing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing Systems (MSs) interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. Data is shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out novel Location Based eXchanges (LBX) of data for new mobile applications. Information transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, is in process at, or is application modified at a mobile data processing system triggers processing of actions in accordance with user configured permissions, charters, and other configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a user configurable platform is provided for quickly building well behaving LBX applications at MSs and across a plurality of interoperating MSs. Tools, triggered interfaces and integrated applications are disclosed for a breadth of MS LBX configurations and functionality.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accepting user input, from a user of a user interface of an application store downloaded mobile application of a phone call capable mobile data processing system, for the user creating in the mobile application a location based event configuration with a location based suggestion selected by the user to form at least a portion of the location based event configuration, the location based event configuration for the mobile data processing system detecting a proximity to a remote data processing system upon the mobile data processing system receiving from the remote data processing system a beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record having no fields containing a finalized physical location useful without conversion for subsequent data processing system mathematical triangulation, the location based suggestion determined by a criteria matching mobile application data in a plurality of application data fields of the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record, the criteria determined relevant to an application context in use of the mobile application at a time of a request of the user input, the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record including;

the plurality of application data fields being hierarchically related to each other by the mobile application data having organization hierarchy meaning recognized by the mobile application wherein the mobile application data is anticipated by the mobile application in the location based event configuration, and

a field containing a signal strength;

inferring, by the mobile application, the criteria determined relevant to the application context in use of the mobile application at the time of the request of the user input;

requesting, by the mobile application, the location based suggestion by requesting the criteria matching the mobile application data in the plurality of application data fields of the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record;

determining the location based suggestion by the criteria matching the mobile application data in the plurality of application data fields of the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record;

presenting the location based suggestion to the user interface of the mobile application of the mobile data processing system, upon the determining the location based suggestion; and

accepting user input after the presenting, from the user interface of the mobile application of the mobile data processing system, to save the location based event configuration with the location based suggestion selected by the user to a memory of the mobile data processing system, the location based event configuration including;

at least one location based condition including a condition for the mobile data processing system detecting the proximity to the remote data processing system upon the mobile data processing system receiving from the remote data processing system the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record including the mobile application data having organization hierarchy meaning recognized by the mobile application wherein the mobile application data is anticipated by the mobile application, and

a location based action processed locally by the mobile data processing system, upon the mobile data processing system determining the at least one location based condition, wherein the location based action causes processing for a notification.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes accessing a cross reference database maintained outside the application context in use.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based suggestion is maintained in an organized group or category.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the processing for the notification occurs through a callback function.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based suggestion is one of a plurality of suggestions presented to the user interface of the mobile application at a time of the presenting.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining a data processing system mathematically triangulated physical location of a specified data processing system.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining a whereabouts of a specified data processing system at a particular time.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining a whereabouts of a specified data processing system at a specified distance.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining an arrival or a departure.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining a location of a specified data processing system being in a vicinity of a plurality of data processing systems.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining a mobile data processing system being in a vicinity of a RFID device.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining a mobile data processing system being in a vicinity of at least one of:

an electrical appliance, a mechanical appliance, an electrical device, or a mechanical device.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining historical input entered by the user.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the location based suggestion includes determining an identity associated to an identified data processing system.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one location based condition includes at least one of:

information for an email application,

information for a messaging application,

information for a calendar application,

information for an address book application,

information for a phone application,

information for a map application,

information for a storage application,

information for a file system application,

information for a database application,

information for a search application,

information for an internet browser application,

information for an emergency application,

information for a RFID application,

information for a hotspot application,

information for a services application,

information for a traffic application,

information for an appliance application,

information for a device application,

information for an account management application,

information for a public transportation application,

information for a carpool application,

information for an advertising application,

information for a news application,

information for a picture application,

information for a video application,

information for a parking lot application,

information for an employment application,

information for a real estate application,

information included in a Whereabouts Data Record received by the mobile data processing system,

information included in a Whereabouts Data Record of the mobile data processing system,

information associated to an application of a remote data processing system,

information associated to an application of the mobile data processing system,

information for a statistic,

information for historical data,

information for a geofence specification,

information for a nearby specification,

information for a nearness specification,

information for a specification using a distance,

information for a vicinity specification,

information for a situational location specification,

information associated to a file,

information associated to a directory,

information for SQL database data,

information for a group,

information for a plurality of data processing systems,

information for a date specification,

information for a time specification,

information for an arrival,

information for a departure,

information for a profile match percentage,

information for a profile tag match count,

information for a Whereabouts Programming Language specification,

information for an XML specification,

information for an atomic operator,

information for a point,

information for a radius,

information for a perimeter,

information for a sphere,

information for a region,

information for a Boolean value,

information for a physical location address,

information for a two dimensional region specification,

information for a three dimensional region specification,

information for a line,

information for a polygon,

information for a mathematical coordinate system,

information for a specification described by a set of geographical coordinate system points,

information for a specification described by a set of spatial coordinate system points,

a plurality of identifier information for the mobile data processing system,

a plurality of identifier information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system,

geofence information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system,

waymark information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system,

deliverable content information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system,

halo information received in a wireless data record by the mobile data processing system,

information for a direction, or

information for data created by a user of the mobile data processing system with a user interface to a map.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based action causes a processing result of an atomic command paired with an atomic operand and having one or more associated parameters, the atomic command being:

Send, or Notify, or Compose, or Find, or Copy, or Invoke, or Discard, or Move, or Store, or Connect, or Administrate, or Change; and

the atomic operand being;

AUTODIALNUMBER, or WEBLINK, or EMAIL, or SMSMSG, or BRDEMAIL, or BRDSMSMSG, or INDICATOR, or APP, or DOCUMENT, or FILE, or CONTENT, or DBOBJ, or DATA, or SEMAPHORE, or DIRECTORY, or APPCONTEXT, or UIFOBJ, or UIFCTL, or INPUT, or OUTPUT, or ALERT, or PROC, or CONTAINER, or PROGOBJ, or CURSOR, or CALENDAR, or ADDRESSBOOK.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based action causes at least one of:

a content delivery, an alert, a notification, or a user interface presentation.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based action causes processing to be performed by a remote data processing system.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the location based suggestion is a selectable map reference or snippet presented to the user interface of the mobile application at a time of the presenting.

20. The method of claim 1 including providing one or more user interfaces of the mobile data processing system wherein the user can manage the location based event configuration with at least one of:

browse, search, find, delete, alter, enable, or disable.

21. The method of claim 1 including providing one or more user interfaces of the mobile data processing system wherein an administrator can manage the location based suggestion with at least one of:

browse, search, find, delete, alter, enable, or disable.

22. The method of claim 1 including processing of an assigned privilege for governing processing of the location based suggestion.

23. The method of claim 1 including validating the location based event configuration prior to the save of the location based event configuration.

24. A phone call capable mobile data processing system, comprising:

one or more processors;

a user interface; and

at least one memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the at least one memory includes executable instructions which, executed by the one or more processors, results in the mobile data processing system;

accepting user input, from a user of the user interface of an application store downloaded mobile application of the phone call capable mobile data processing system, for the user creating in the mobile application a location based event configuration with a location based suggestion selected by the user to form at least a portion of the location based event configuration, the location based event configuration for the mobile data processing system detecting a proximity to a remote data processing system upon the mobile data processing system receiving from the remote data processing system a beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record having no fields containing a finalized physical location useful without conversion for subsequent data processing system mathematical triangulation, the location based suggestion determined by a criteria matching mobile application data in a plurality of application data fields of the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record, the criteria determined relevant to an application context in use of the mobile application at a time of a request of the user input, the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record including;

the plurality of application data fields being hierarchically related to each other by the mobile application data having organization hierarchy meaning recognized by the mobile application wherein the mobile application data is anticipated by the mobile application in the location based event configuration, and

a field containing a signal strength;

inferring, by the mobile application, the criteria determined relevant to the application context in use of the mobile application at the time of the request of the user input;

requesting, by the mobile application, the location based suggestion by requesting the criteria matching the mobile application data in the plurality of application data fields of the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record;

determining the location based suggestion by the criteria matching the mobile application data in the plurality of application data fields of the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record;

presenting the location based suggestion to the user interface of the mobile application of the mobile data processing system, upon the determining the location based suggestion; and

accepting user input after the presenting, from the user interface of the mobile application of the mobile data processing system, to save the location based event configuration with the location based suggestion selected by the user to the at least one memory of the mobile data processing system, the location based event configuration including;

at least one location based condition including a condition for the mobile data processing system detecting the proximity to the remote data processing system upon the mobile data processing system receiving from the remote data processing system the beaconed unidirectional broadcast wireless data record including the mobile application data having organization hierarchy meaning recognized by the mobile application wherein the mobile application data is anticipated by the mobile application, and

a location based action processed locally by the mobile data processing system, upon the mobile data processing system determining the at least one location based condition, wherein the location based action causes processing for a notification.