DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY ENTERING, STORING AND SHARING ADDRESSES FOR A POSITIONAL INFORMATION DEVICE

• US 20110004401A1
• Filed: 09/15/2010
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Geographic Location Innovations, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Original Assignee: Reagan Inventions L.L.C. (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Inventors: Rothschild, Leigh M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,606,503 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3874 Structures specially adapted for data searching and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3896 Transmission of map data from central databases
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096816 where the complete route is transmitted to the vehicle at once
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09685 where the complete route is computed only once and not updated
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096866 where the complete route is shown to the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Devices, systems and methods for remotely entering, storing and sharing location addresses for a positional information device, e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) device, are provided. The present disclosure allows a user to easily and safely enter an address into a GPS device by giving that address to a remote communications link and to have that link automatically program the user'"'"'s GPS device for usage. The device, system and method of the present disclosure further allows the user to use this stored address(es) on multiple GPS devices without having to manually enter the address(es).

Claims

1. A method for entering location information into a positional information device, the method comprising:

receiving a request for at least one address from a first positional information device;

retrieving the at least one address from at least one second positional information device; and

transmitting the retrieved address to the first positional information device.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the receiving step includes receiving an identifier of the first positional information device device.

3. The method as in claim 2, wherein the identifier is a mobile phone number or an IP address.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein the at least one address is transmitted in longitude or latitude coordinates.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the at least one address is graphically displayed on a map.

6. The method as in claim 1, wherein the request is received by voice communication.

7. The method as in claim 1, wherein the request is received from the first positional information device.

8. The method as in claim 1, wherein the request is received from a remote computer.

9. The method as in claim 8, furthering comprising receiving a first identifier from the remote computer.

10. The method as in claim 9, wherein the first identifier is an Internet cookie.

11. The method as in claim 8, furthering comprising determining a second identifier for the first positional information device based on the received first identifier of the remote computer.

12. The method as in claim 11, wherein the second identifier of the positional information device is a mobile phone number or an IP address.

13. The method as in claim 1, wherein the retrieving step includes retrieving the at least one address from a database residing on a server, the database being associated to the at least one second positional information device.

15. The system as in claim 12, wherein the first positional information device transmits an identifier with the request to the server.

16. The system as in claim 13, wherein the identifier is a mobile phone number or an IP address.

14. A system for entering location information into a positional information device, the system comprising:

a server configured to receive a request for at least one location, determine an address of the least one requested location and to transmit the determined coordinates to a first positional information device;

the first positional information device including

a locational information module for determining location information of the device;

a communication module for receiving the address of the at least one location from the server;

a processing module configured to receive the address from the communication module and determine route guidance based on the location of the device and the received address; and

a display module for displaying the route guidance; and

a communications network for coupling the positional information device to the server,

wherein the server retrieves the address from at least one second positional information device.

17. The method as in claim 14, wherein the at least one address is transmitted in longitude or latitude coordinates.

18. The method as in claim 14, wherein the address is graphically displayed on a map.

19. The system as in claim 14, wherein the communications network is a telematics network.

20. The system as in claim 14, wherein the request is received from the device.

21. The system as in claim 14, wherein the request is received from a remote computer.

22. The system as in claim 21, wherein the remote computer transmits a first identifier with the request to the server.

23. The system as in claim 22, wherein the first identifier is an Internet cookie.

24. The system as in claim 21, wherein the server is configured to determine a second identifier for the first positional information device based on the received first identifier of the remote computer.

25. The system as in claim 24, wherein the second identifier of the device is a mobile phone number or an IP address.

26. The system as in claim 14, wherein the server retrieves the coordinates from a database residing on the server, the database being associated to the at least one second positional information device.

27. The system as in claim 14, wherein the server is operated by a live operator and the request for the at least one location is received by voice communications.