Mobile device with applications that use a common place card to display data relating to a location

• US 9,706,346 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Rivard, Nathaniel R., van Os, Marcel, Vulcano, Emanuele, Pendyala, Srichand
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US14/292,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20150111603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-457, 4554141-4144, 455566
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a mobile computing device that includes a number of applications having a common display area to display data relating to a location. In some embodiments, the common display area is a unified display area to display different types of data. The different types of data can include information regarding the location, multimedia associated with the location, user feedbacks regarding the location, a catalog associated with the location, social network data, etc. In some embodiments, the unified common display area is also referred to as a place card because it presents data relating to a place.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

at least one processing unit; and

a storage storing a plurality of applications for execution by the at least one processing unit,

wherein each application in the plurality of applications uses a common place card to display different types of data relating to a location,

wherein the common place card is populated with the different types of data from a shared local cache, the different types of data comprising an address of the location and

a food and other tangible goods associated with the location, and an affordance to purchase the goods.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the affordance allows the purchase to be effectuated while the common place card is displayed.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the selection of the affordance directs the mobile device to display another page through which the purchase is completed.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the different types of data further include social network data, including a set of posts regarding the location and multimedia associated with the location.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the different types of data further includes a map showing the location.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of applications includes a contacts applications that uses the common place card as a contact card for the location.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of applications includes a maps application that displays the common place card when a person selects the location from a map.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of applications includes a third-party application that displays the common place card when a person selects a selectable item of the third-party application to view data relating to the location.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of applications includes a message application that displays the common place card when a person selects a representation of the location from a text message.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of applications includes a phone application that displays the common place card when a person selects a recent phone call, associated with the location, made with the mobile device.

11. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein at least one application retrieves data from the local cache using a unique identifier (ID) associated with the location.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the at least one application retrieves data from a data server if the data is not stored in the shared local cache.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the at least one application stores the data retrieved from the data server in the shared local cache.

14. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein at least one application retrieves data from the shared local cache using a phone number associated with the location.

15. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the common place card includes a set of affordances to add or remove one or more of the different types of data from the place card.

16. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a maps application that when executed by at least one processing unit provides a user interface (UI), the UI comprising:

a first display area to display a location as a first selectable item on a map; and

a second display area to display different types of data relating to the location upon selection of the first selectable item, the different types of data comprising an address of the location, contact information for the location,

a food and other tangible goods associated with the location, and an affordance to purchase the goods,

wherein the second display area includes a second selectable item that when selected uses two or more pieces of the different types of data relating to the location to create a common place card that is stored on a shared local cache, the common place card used by a plurality of applications to display the different types of data for the location.

18. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein the plurality of applications includes at least one of a contacts application that uses the place card as a contact card for that location and a maps application that displays the place card when a person selects the location from a map.

19. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein the plurality of applications comprises at least one of a third-party application, a message application, and a phone application that displays the place card when a person selects a selectable item to view data relating to the location.

20. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein at least one application retrieves data from the shared local cache using a unique identifier (ID) associated with the location, wherein the at least one application retrieves data from a data server if the data is not stored in the shared local cache and stores the data retrieved from the data server in the shared local cache.

21. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein at least one application retrieves data from the shared local cache using a phone number associated with the location.

22. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein the second display area includes a third selectable item that when selected uses one or more pieces of the data relating to the location to add data to an existing place card.

23. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein

the first display area further to display another location as a second selectable item on the map;

and

the second display area further to display different types of data relating to the other location upon selection of the second selectable item, the different items of data comprising an address of the other location, contact information for the other location at least one food item sold at the other location, and an affordance to purchase the food item.

17. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by at least one processing unit, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

receiving input of a phone number to place a phone call to a location, wherein the phone number is a phone number that is not stored in a contacts list;

searching a common place card stored in a local shared cache using the phone number, wherein the common place card is populated with different types of data relating to the location, the different types of data comprising the phone number, an address of the location, and a listing of tangible goods, events, or services associated with the location;

if a matching phone number is stored in the common place card, identifying a name associated with the location and displaying the name; and

if the matching phone number is not stored in the common place card, displaying the phone number.

24. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 17, wherein the different types or data further comprises at least one of user reviews, multimedia, social network data, and a map associated with the location.

25. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 17, wherein the common place card includes at least on affordance to effectuate a purchase with respect to a tangible good, event or service associated with the location.