Methods for obtaining a navigation track between a first and a second location at a client device using location information obtained from a server device and related devices and computer program products

• US 9,014,973 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2007
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ruckart, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US11/710,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20080208467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,979 Days
• Field of Search: 701/207, 701/210, 701/201, 701/213, 701/426, 701467-469, 340/988, 340/539.13, 455/404.2, 455/456, 455/457, 455/456.5, 455/422.1, 455/418, 4554561-4563, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/414.1, 342/357.06, 342/357.1, 379/226, 379/229, 725/62, 725/112, 715/864, 715/205, 348/14.02, 726/26, 726/2, 709/219, 709/203
• US Class Current: 701/469
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area

Abstract

A client device is operated to obtain a navigation track between a first location and a second location by establishing a communication connection with a server device and receiving a message that contains information associated with the first location and/or the second location from the server device. The information is associated with a navigation module on the client device. The information associated with the first location and/or the second location is processed using the navigation module to obtain the navigation track between the first location and the second location.

Claims

1. A method of operating a client device, comprising:

establishing a communication connection with a server device;

receiving a message at the client device from the server device, responsive to establishing the communication connection, that contains information that identifies one of a first geographic location and a second geographic location from the server device, the information being associated with a navigation module on the client device;

processing the information that identifies one of the first geographic location and the second geographic location using the navigation module at the client device to obtain processed information; and

determining a geographic navigation track between the first geographic location and the second geographic location based on the processed information without traversing the geographic navigation track;

wherein the message comprises one of a Short Message Service text message and an electronic mail.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, before processing the information:

saving the information at the client device; and

ending the communication connection with the server device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the server device is a Web server device and wherein the communication connection is a HyperText Transfer Protocol communication connection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the information comprises:

accessing a navigation information repository on the client device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the information comprises:

accessing a remote navigation information repository via a communication connection with the remote navigation information repository.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first geographic location is a current geographic location of the client device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

updating the determined navigation track responsive to changes in the current geographic location of the client device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the information that identifies at least one of the first geographic location and the second geographic location comprises an address.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending one of the first geographic location and the second geographic location to the server device before receiving the message.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the information that identifies one of the first geographic location and the second geographic location comprises global positioning system information.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the global positioning system information is encoded in a Global Positioning System eXchange format.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the information that identifies one of the first geographic location and the second geographic location comprises a waypoint between the first geographic location and the second geographic location;

and

wherein the navigation track between the first geographic location and the second geographic location includes the waypoint.

13. The method of claim 1,

wherein the information is an attachment to the message.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the information that identifies at least one of the first geographic location and the second geographic location comprises cellular technology location information.