Apprising system for use with a cellular telephone and a method of operation thereof

• US 20040235492A1
• Filed: 05/21/2003
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Poosala, Vishwanath, Chang, Yuh Jye, Srivastava, Anurag, Nagesh, Harsha S.
• Application Number:
  US10/442,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20040235492A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

An apprising system and a method of apprising are set forth for use with a cellular telephone to apprise a user of the cellular telephone of a spontaneous occurrence. In one embodiment, the apprising system includes: (1) a matching subsystem that compares a location of the cellular telephone to an area associated with an occurrence and (2) an informing subsystem that notifies a user of the cellular telephone of the occurrence based on the compares.

Claims

1. For use with a cellular telephone, an apprising system for spontaneous occurrences, comprising:

a matching subsystem that compares a location of said cellular telephone to an area associated with an occurrence; and

an informing subsystem that notifies a user of said cellular telephone of said occurrence based on said compares.

2. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said occurrence is selected from the group consisting of:

a contaminating event,

a traffic disturbance,

a civil disturbance,

a weather disturbance, and

a crime.

3. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said location is provided by a cellular telephone positioning system.

4. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said user selectively disables monitoring of said location.

5. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said matching system performs said comparing based on a present location of said user.

6. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said informing subsystem notifies an entity of said occurrence based on said compares.

7. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said informing subsystem performs said notifies when said location is within a tracking distance of said area.

8. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said informing subsystem employs a signal for said notifies selected from the group consisting of:

a visual signal,

an audible signal,

a vibratory signal, and

a combination including any two of a visual signal, an audible signal and a vibratory signal.

9. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said informing subsystem employs a map on a display of said cellular telephone.

10. The apprising system as recited in claim 1 wherein said informing subsystem performs said notifies dynamically.

11. A method of apprising a user of a cellular telephone of a spontaneous occurrence, comprising:

comparing a location of said cellular telephone to an area associated with an occurrence; and

notifying said user of said occurrence based on said comparing.

12. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said occurrence is selected from the group consisting of:

a contaminating event,

a traffic disturbance,

a civil disturbance,

a weather disturbance, and

a crime.

13. The method as recited in claim 11 further comprising providing said location through a cellular telephone positioning system.

14. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said user selectively disables monitoring of said location.

15. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said comparing is based on a present location of said cellular telephone.

16. The method as recited in claim 11 further comprising notifying an entity of said occurrence based on said comparing.

17. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said notifying is performed when said location is within a tracking distance of said area.

18. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said notifying employs a signal selected from the group consisting of:

a visual signal,

an audible signal,

a vibratory signal, and

a combination including any two of a visual signal, an audible signal and a vibratory signal.

19. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said notifying employs a map on a display of said cellular telephone.

20. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein said notifying is dynamic.