SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SMS AND TAGGED MESSAGE TO SEND POSITION AND TRAVEL INFORMATION TO SERVER AND/OR PEERS

• US 20120034940A1
• Filed: 10/20/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samir Ismail
• Original Assignee: Samir Ismail
• Inventors: Ismail, Samir
• Granted Patent: US 8,195,211 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

The GPS position or other short information related to a wireless telephone is encapsulated in a tagged protocol such as XML and sent using short message service (SMS) to peers or Internet servers, which can parse the tagged messages and extract, e.g., position information for display on a map.

Claims

1. A wireless telephone, comprising:

at least one wireless telephony transceiver;

at least one position receiver configured for outputting geographic position information; and

at least one processor receiving user-generated signals from the input device and configured for executing logic to encapsulate the geographic position information and/or other information in a message having a tagged protocol, wherein the processor;

receives a user-input speed from the input device;

presents at least a first graphical user interface (U/I) visibly listing items of data from which a user can select an item of data to be sent, an item of data to be sent as selected by the user being transmitted by the wireless telephone, at least a first item on the list being a position of the telephone and at least a second item on the list being an arrival time at a location determined by the processor based at least in part on the speed input by a user.

2. The telephone of claim 1, wherein the geographic position information is encapsulated in the message.

3. The telephone of claim 2, wherein the position information is encapsulated in the message automatically without user action and sent to a server.

4. The telephone of claim 2, wherein the processor presents a user interface to the user from which the user can select to send the position information to a user-selected recipient.

5. The telephone of claim 1, wherein the protocol is extensible markup language (XML).

6. The telephone of claim 1, wherein the recipient is a wireless telephone peer of an end user, and the message is sent directly to the peer without passing through an Internet server.

7. The telephone of claim 1, wherein the recipient is an Internet server.

21. The telephone of claim 1, wherein the processor presents at least a second graphical U/I visibly listing possible recipients for the item of data.

8. A receiver of XML-tagged messages transmitted from wireless telephones using SMS, comprising:

a digital processing apparatus parsing the XML-tagged SMS messages to extract information therefrom; and

an application that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to determine an arrival time at a location designated by a user of the receiver, the processor sending the arrival time to a user-designated recipient.

9. The receiver of claim 8, wherein the receiver is an Internet server.

10. The receiver of claim 8, wherein the receiver is a peer wireless telephone comprising:

at least one wireless telephony transceiver;

at least one position receiver configured for outputting geographic position information; and

the processor being configured for executing logic to encapsulate the geographic position information and/or other information in a message having a tagged protocol, the message being sent using short message service (SMS) to a receiver for display of the geographic position information and/or other information.

11. The receiver of claim 10, wherein the geographic position information is encapsulated in the message.

12. The receiver of claim 11, wherein the position information is encapsulated in the message without the user having to key in position coordinates.

13. The receiver of claim 12, wherein the processor presents a user interface to the user from which the user can select to send the position information to a user selected recipient.

14. The receiver of claim 10, wherein the protocol is extensible markup language (XML).

15. The receiver of claim 13, wherein the recipient is a wireless telephone peer of an end user, and the message is sent directly to the peer without passing through an Internet server.

16. The receiver of claim 13, wherein the recipient is an Internet server.

17. A method, comprising:

encapsulating, at a mobile wireless communication device, position information in a message having a tagged format; and

sending the message using SMS, wherein the encapsulating and sending acts are executed automatically without any user action.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the recipient is another wireless telephone.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the recipient is an Internet server.

18. (canceled)