Location aware multi-modal multi-lingual device

• US 20070005363A1
• Filed: 06/29/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sinclair, Michael, Cucerzan, Silviu-Petru, Kong, Yuan, Zhang, Zhengyou, Williams, David, Kurlander, David, Brill, Eric
• Application Number:
  US11/169,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20070005363A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/256
• 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 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

Location-based technologies (e.g., global position system (GPS)) can be employed to facilitate providing multi-modal, multi-lingual location-based services. Identification of location can provide significant context as to identifying user state and intentions. Thus, location identification can facilitate providing/augmenting data and services (e.g., location-aware based suggestions, truncating contact lists based upon location, location-based reminders as a user approaches a predetermined location, truncating pre-loaded tasks, suggesting routes to accomplish pre-loaded tasks in a PIM). Still other aspects can augment GPS location identification with a compass, accelerometer, azimuth control, cellular triangulation, SPOT services of telephone, etc. Effectively, these alternative aspects can facilitate determination of a target location by detecting movement and direction of a user and/or portable device.

Claims

1. A multi-language system that facilitates providing location-based information, comprising:

a location context component that provides content based at least in part upon a location of a portable device; and

a multi-language component that converts the content into a language comprehendible by a user of the portable device.

2. The multi-language system of claim 1, the location context component comprises:

a location detection engine that determines the location of the portable device; and

a location analyzer component that determines the content based at least in part upon the location, the content includes at least one service.

3. The multi-language system of claim 2, further comprising a personal information manager (PIM) component, the location analyzer component queries the PIM component based at least in part upon the location and determines location-based data.

4. The multi-language system of claim 2, the location detection component comprises a positioning engine and a movement detector.

5. The multi-language system of claim 4, the movement detector is at least one of an accelerometer, a compass, an azimuth control and a cellular triangulation component.

6. The multi-language system of claim 2, the service is at least one of providing location-based data, providing a location-based suggestion, providing a location-based reminder, providing a set of location-based directions, providing a location-based traffic alert, providing a location-based weather forecast and providing a route suggestion based at least in part upon one of a task pre-loaded in a PIM and the location-based suggestion.

7. The multi-language system of claim 6, the location-based data is filtered PIM data based at least in part upon the location.

8. The multi-language system of claim 2, further comprising a portable communications device that comprises the location detection engine and the location analyzer component.

9. The multi-language system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence (AI) component that infers a target location, the location context component provides additional content based at least in part upon the target location.

10. The multi-language system of claim 1, further comprising a rules-based logic component that facilitates automatic implementation of an action based at least in part upon a rule.

11. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for carrying out the multi-language system of claim 1.

12. A computer-implemented method of communicating location-based information, comprising:

determining a location of a portable device;

querying electronic information based at least in part upon the location;

establishing a service based at least in part upon a result of the act of querying electronic information;

formatting the service in a language comprehendible to a user; and

communicating the formatted service to the user.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising detecting a movement direction of the portable device and incorporating the movement direction into the act of querying electronic information.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, the electronic information is PIM data maintained in the portable device.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, the electronic information is maintained in a remote data store.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising filtering the electronic information based at least in part upon the location.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, the act of generating the service further comprises inferring a movement of the portable device based at least in part upon one of a historical and a statistical criterion.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, the act of establishing the service further comprises applying a rule that defines a user criterion.

19. A multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device that facilitates generation of a location-based service, comprising:

means for determining a current location of the multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device;

means for inferring a target location of the multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device based at least in part upon the current location of the multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device;

means for analyzing data based at least in part upon the inferred target location;

means for augmenting a service based at least in part upon an output of the act of analyzing data; and

means for communicating the augmented service in a language comprehendible by the user.

20. The multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device of claim 19, comprising means for augmenting the current location with at least one of a compass, an accelerometer, an azimuth control and a cellular triangulation.