Device, system and method for remotely entering, storing and sharing addresses for a positional information device

• US 9,261,365 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2013
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Social Positioning Input Systems, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Original Assignee: Rothschild Location Technologies LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Inventors: Rothschild, Leigh M
• Primary Examiner(s): Jen, Ian
• Application Number:
  US14/022,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20140012496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3874 Structures specially adapted for data searching and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3896 Transmission of map data from central databases
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096816 where the complete route is transmitted to the vehicle at once
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09685 where the complete route is computed only once and not updated
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096866 where the complete route is shown to the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Devices, systems and methods for remotely entering, storing and sharing location addresses for a positional information device, e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) device, are provided. The present disclosure allows a user to easily and safely enter an address into a GPS device by giving that address to a remote communications link and to have that link automatically program the user'"'"'s GPS device for usage. The device, system and method of the present disclosure further allows the user to use this stored address(es) on multiple GPS devices without having to manually enter the address(es).

Claims

1. A method for receiving location information at a positional information device, the method comprising:

sending a request from a requesting positional information device to a server for at least one address stored in at least one sending positional information device, the request including a first identifier of the requesting positional information device;

receiving at the requesting positional information device, from the server, a retrieved at least one address to the requesting positional information device wherein the server determines a second identifier for identifying the at least one sending positional information device based on the received first identifier and retrieves the requested at least one address stored in the identified at least one sending positional information device.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the first identifier is at least one of a mobile phone number and an IP address.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein the at least one address is transmitted in at least one of longitude and latitude coordinates and an address.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein the at least one address is graphically displayed on a map.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the request is received by voice communication.

6. The method as in claim 1, wherein the second identifier of the sending positional information device is at least one of a mobile phone number and an IP address.

7. The method as in claim 1, wherein the retrieving the at least one address includes retrieving the at least one address from a database residing on a server, the database being associated to the at least one sending positional information device.

8. A requesting positional information device for receiving location information over a communication network, the requesting positional information device comprising:

a locational information module for determining location information of the requesting positional information device;

a communication module for receiving the address of the at least one location from the server;

a processing module configured to receive the address from the communication module and determine route guidance based on the location of the requesting positional information device and the received address; and

a display module for displaying the route guidance; and

wherein the requesting positional information device sends a request to a server for the at least one address stored in the at least one sending positional information device, the request including a first identifier of the requesting positional device, wherein the requesting positional device receives the retrieved at least one address from the server such that the server determined a second identifier for identifying at least one sending positional information device based on the received first identifier, and the server retrieved the requested at least one address stored in the at least one sending positional information device.

9. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the first identifier is at least one of a mobile phone number and an IP address.

10. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the at least one address is transmitted in at least one of longitude and latitude coordinates and an address.

11. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the address is graphically displayed on a map.

12. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the communications network is a telematics network.

13. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the second identifier of the at least one sending positional information device is at least one of a mobile phone number and an IP address.

14. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the server retrieves the coordinates from a database residing on the server, the database being associated to the at least one sending positional information device.

15. The requesting positional information device as in claim 8, wherein the server is operated by a live operator and the request for the at least one location is received by voice communications.