Predictive services for devices supporting dynamic direction information

• US 10,057,724 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2015
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Khosravy, Moe, Novik, Lev
• Primary Examiner(s): Li, Sun M
• Application Number:
  US14/934,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057581A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 705 1441, 701412
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3811 Point data, e.g. Point of Interest [POI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

With the addition of directional information in the environment, a variety of service(s) can be provided on top of user identification or interaction with specific object(s) of interest by pointing at the objects. Sometimes either the device user and/or the publishers of content cannot complete a content exchange associated with a point of interest (POI) fast enough for the content to remain relevant. Thus, POIs and content for POIs can be predicted for users based on a variety of factors, such as an analysis of their present path and directional changes, rates of changes, or other factors, such that there is no noticeable, or minimal, latency between information being available with respect to such POIs and a request made via the user'"'"'s device for such POI information.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a location subsystem that includes a GPS subsystem;

a processor;

a memory component, and

a data store having stored instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the mobile device to manage the memory component and point of interest information stored on and removed from the memory component, the stored instructions further being configured to cause the mobile device to perform the following;

the mobile device detecting direction information obtained from a directional subsystem based on an orientation associated with the mobile device, the directional subsystem including a digital compass;

the mobile device detecting position information with the location subsystem as a function of a position of the mobile device;

the mobile device storing, in the memory component, point of interest information for one or more points of interest that was previously received by the mobile device;

the mobile device identifying a region of real space that the mobile device is unlikely to encounter in the future based at least in part on the direction information and the position information; and

the mobile device aging out and automatically removing, from the memory component, point of interest information for at least one of the points of interest in the identified region that the mobile device is unlikely to encounter based at least in part on the detected direction and position information, freeing up space in the memory component.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the direction subsystem is detachably connected to the mobile device through an extension slot of the mobile device.

3. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein the mobile device comprises a vehicle GPS device.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a vehicle computer.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a bike computer.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured as a visor or glasses.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is further based at least in part on an age of the point of interest information.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is further based at least in part on a time of the day.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is further based at least in part on an amount of unused space in the memory component.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is based at least in part on a determined distance of the mobile device from the one or more points of interest corresponding to the point of interest information and a motion of the mobile device.

11. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the memory component comprises a local cache of the mobile device.

16. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the direction subsystem is detects first position information from a digital compass that is detachably connected to the computing system through an extension slot of the computing system.

17. The computing system of claim 16, wherein the computing system is integrated into a vehicle.

12. A computing system comprising:

a mobile device having a processor and a memory component,

the computing system being configured to detect first direction information based on an orientation of the mobile device;

the computing system detecting first position information as a function of a position of the mobile device;

the computing system being configured to obtain and store, in the memory component of the mobile device, point of interest information for one or more points of interest based at least in part on the first direction information and the first position information;

the computing system being configured to identify a region of real space that the mobile device is unlikely to encounter in the future based at least in part on at least new direction information or new position information; and

the computing system being configured to selectively and automatically remove, from the memory component of the mobile device, point of interest information for at least one of the points of interest in the identified region that the mobile device is unlikely to encounter based at least in part on the new detected direction information or the new position information, freeing up space in the memory component.

13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is further based at least in part on an amount of unused space in the memory component.

14. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is further based at least in part on an age of the point of interest information that is removed.

15. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the removal of the point of interest information from the memory component is based at least in part on a determined distance of the mobile device from the one or more points of interest corresponding to the point of interest information that is removed.

18. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the computing system is integrated into a visor or glasses.

19. A method of managing a memory component of a mobile device and storage of point of interest information which is selectively stored on and removed from the memory component, the method comprising:

determining direction information based on an orientation for the mobile device;

determining position information as a function of a position for the mobile device;

storing, in the memory component of the mobile device, point of interest information for one or more points of interest, the point of interest information having been previously received at the mobile device;

identifying a region of real space that the mobile device is unlikely to encounter in the future based at least in part on the direction information or the position information; and

aging out and automatically removing, from the memory component of the mobile device, point of interest information for at least one of the points of interest in the identified region that the mobile device is unlikely to encounter based at least in part on the direction or position information, freeing up space in the memory component.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further includes deleting the aged out point of interest information upon determining both (1) that the aged out point of interest information is a particular age and (2) that the mobile device is a particular distance from the one or more points of interest corresponding to the aged out point of interest information.