Apparatus and method for targeted acquisition

• US 9,460,578 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Victor A. Grossman
• Original Assignee: Victor A. Grossman
• Inventors: Grossman, Victor A.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL
• Application Number:
  US11/999,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20090149155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,224 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 455/456.2, 455/456.3, 455/457, 235/386, 705/2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A mobile station, system, and method for collecting information. The mobile station including a controller which can determine a current location of the mobile station, output the name of one or more selected persons corresponding to a predetermined geographic area (such as a current location of the mobile station), and receive an identifier corresponding to the selected person via an input device. The mobile station may also communicate, via wired and/or wireless communication means, with a system for uploading/downloading and/or processing information such as petition signatures.

Claims

1. A mobile station comprising:

a controller which;

determines a present location of the mobile station, determines a street address corresponding to the present location, and renders a name of one or more selected persons that are registered to the street address;

calculates expectation data which indicates likelihood of success; and

renders information related to the expectation data associated with at least one of the street address and the one or more selected persons.

2. The mobile station according to claim 1, further comprising a display, wherein the controller outputs the determined street address on the display.

3. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the controller uses the determined present location of the mobile station to determine guidance information corresponding to an other street address, the other street address corresponding to an address of another person of the one or more selected persons.

4. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the controller outputs map data corresponding to a present location of the mobile station, the map data including route data.

5. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the controller selects the one or more selected persons from a compilation of registered voters.

6. The mobile station according to claim 5, wherein the compilation of registered voters consists of members of a single political party.

7. The mobile station according to claim 2, wherein the controller:

receives a verification identifier corresponding to a use of the mobile station who is other than one of the one or more selected persons; and

saves the verification identifier in association with identifiers corresponding to the one or more selected persons.

8. The mobile station according to claim 1, further comprising an act of rendering a request to receive the identifier on a display of the mobile station.

9. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the controller outputs information related to candidate information (CI) in accordance with the person of the one or more selected persons.

10. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the expectation data is based upon at least one of signature information, time information, vote information, and contribution information.

11. The mobile station according to claim 1, further comprising an input device having an entry area for receiving an identifier, wherein the identifier is entered at the mobile station by a person that identifies them self as one or more selected persons and comprises one comprises one or more of a signature, biometric data, and an identification code related to the person;

and processing the identifier corresponding to the person.

12. A method for collecting information using a mobile station including at least one controller, the method performed by at least one controller and comprising the acts of:

determining a present location of the mobile station;

determining a street address corresponding to the present location;

rendering a name of one or more selected persons that are registered to the street address;

calculating expectation data which indicates likelihood of success; and

rendering information related to the expectation data associated with at least one of the street address and the one or more selected persons.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising an act of outputting on a display a street address corresponding to one or more of the one or more selected persons.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising an act of outputting guidance information corresponding to an other street address, the other street address corresponding to a street address of at least one other person of the one or more selected persons.

15. The method according to claim 12, further comprising an act of outputting map data corresponding to the determined present location of the mobile station, the map data including route data corresponding to a route having a plurality of street addresses, each street address corresponding to one or more other persons of the one or more selected persons.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein the one or more the selected persons are selected from a voter registration database.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the one more selected persons are selected from a group consisting of members of a single political party.

18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising acts of:

receiving a verification identifier corresponding to a user of the mobile station other than one of the one of the one or more selected persons; and

saving the verification identifier in association with the information related to the identifiers corresponding to the one or more selected persons.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein the expectation data is based upon least one of signature information, time information, vote information, and contribution information.

20. A method for collecting information using a mobile station having at least one controller, the method performed by the at least one controller and comprising acts of:

determining a present location of the mobile station;

determining a street address corresponding to the present location;

rendering a name of one or more selected persons that are registered to the street address;

calculating expectation data which indicates likelihood of success; and

rendering information related to the expectation data associated with at least one of the street address and the one or more selected persons.

21. The method according to claim 20, further comprising an act of:

determining whether the selected person is registered to vote in a predetermined geographic area.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein the identifier corresponds to a petition.