System and Method for Situational Location Proactive Search

• US 20090271271A1
• Filed: 03/07/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Johnson, William J.
• Application Number:
  US12/044,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271271A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.580
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/02 Indoor
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/02 using radio waves using satellite radio beacon systems for determining position G01S19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location where the service is an information service H04M2242/15; services independent of location H04M3/42229
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/15 Information service where the information is dependent on the location of the subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42348 Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 : Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 : Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 : using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 : for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 : Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 : Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 : Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 : Recoverability

Abstract

Situational location dependent information is transmitted from a server data processing system to a receiving data processing system. The server data processing system communicates with the receiving data processing system in a manner by pushing content when appropriate. A candidate delivery event associated with a current positional attribute of the receiving data processing system is recognized and a situational location of the remote data processing system is determined. The candidate delivery event may be a location and/or direction change, device state change, or movement exceeding a movement tolerance. The situational location of the remote data processing system may be its location, direction, location and direction, proximity to a location, state change, or location and/or direction relative to a previous location and/or direction, or combinations thereof. A set of delivery content from a deliverable content database is transmitted from the server data processing system to the receiving data processing system according to the situational location of the receiving data processing system, and according to delivery constraints. The delivery content is configurable by authorized administrators on an instant activation basis for proactive delivery.

Claims

1. A method for providing a search user with search result information, said method comprising the steps of:

presenting a search interface to said search user for user specified interest criteria;

completely terminating said search interface after said search user specifies said interest criteria;

determining a situational location of said search user;

using, asynchronously from any user interface context used by said search user, said interest criteria and said situational location, after the time of said step of completely terminating said search interface, to find said information wherein said information is first made available after the time of said step of completely terminating said search interface and w-herein said information matches said interest criteria and said situational location; and

presenting said information to said search user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of determining a situational location of said search user includes automatically determining said situational location of said search user using global positioning system data.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of determining a situational location of said search user includes automatically determining said situational location of said search user using radio wave signal triangulation.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of determining a situational location of said search user includes automatically determining said situational location of said search user using a network address.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of determining a situational location of said search user includes automatically determining said situational location of said search user using a proximity to a location.

6. The method of claim 1 further including the step of sending said information to said search user.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said information is advertising information.

8. The method of claim 1 further including the step of maintaining a history of said information presented to said search user wherein said history is used to prevent redundantly presenting the same information to said search user.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said search user is seeking a future advertised sale and said information is said advertised sale.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said search interface is presented to a plurality of search users at different types of data processing systems.

11. An internet connected service for providing a search user with search result information, said service comprising:

means for presenting a search interface to said search user for user specified interest criteria;

means for completely terminating said search interface after said search user specifies said interest criteria;

means for determining a situational location of said search user;

means for using, asynchronously from any user interface context used by said search user, said interest criteria and said situational location, after the time of said step of completely terminating said search interface, to find said information wherein said information is first made available after the time of said step of completely terminating said search interface and wherein said information matches said interest criteria and said situational location; and

means for presenting said information to said search user.

12. The service of claim 11 wherein said means for determining a situational location includes means for determining said situational location using global positioning system data.

13. The service of claim 11 wherein said means for determining a situational location includes means for determining said situational location using radio wave signal triangulation.

14. The service of claim 11 wherein said means for determining a situational location includes means for determining said situational location using a network address.

15. The service of claim 11 wherein said means for determining a situational location includes means for determining said situational location using a proximity to a location.

16. The service of claim 11 further including means for sending said information to said search user.

17. The service of claim 11 wherein said information is advertising information.

18. The service of claim 11 further including means for maintaining a history of said information presented to said search user wherein said history is used to prevent redundantly presenting the same information to said search user.

19. The service of claim 11 wherein said search user is seeking a future advertised sale and said information is said advertised sale.

20. The service of claim 11 wherein said search interface is presented to a plurality of search users at different types of data processing systems.