DETECTED ARRIVAL AT NAVIGATED DESTINATION AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGERS DELIVERY OF RELEVANT LOCAL INFORMATION TO USER

• US 20120054032A1
• Filed: 08/27/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: KOLODZIEJ, Kris
• Granted Patent: US 9,797,730 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.58
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location

Abstract

A mobile navigation system may include a navigation computer, an arrival detection system, and an information delivery system. The navigation computer may be configured to receive a destination to which a user of the mobile navigation system wishes to travel and to provide guidance to the user about how to navigate to the destination. The arrival detection system may be configured to automatically detect when the mobile navigation system has arrived at the destination. The information delivery system may be configured to provide local information to the user that is tailored to the specific destination in response to detection by the arrival detection system of the arrival of the mobile navigation system at the destination. The local information may not be merely an announcement that the user has arrived at the destination.

Claims

1. A mobile navigation system comprising:

a navigation computer configured to receive a destination to which a user of the mobile navigation system wishes to travel and to provide guidance to the user about how to navigate to the destination;

an arrival detection system configured to automatically detect when the mobile navigation system has arrived at the destination; and

an information delivery system configured to provide local information to the user that is tailored to the specific destination in response to detection by the arrival detection system of the arrival of the mobile navigation system at the destination, the local information not being merely an announcement that the user has arrived at the destination.

2. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the mobile navigation system is part of a cellular telephone.

3. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the local information includes a local map of the destination.

4. The mobile navigation system of claim 3 wherein the destination is an airport and the local map is a map of the airport.

5. The mobile navigation system of claim 3 wherein the destination is a shopping center and the local map is a map of the shopping center.

6. The mobile navigation system of claim 3 wherein the navigation computer is configured to allow the user to select a location on the local map and to provide guidance to the user about how to navigate to the location.

7. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the local information includes promotional information relating to one or more establishments at or near the destination.

8. The mobile navigation system of claim 7 wherein the promotional information includes one or more advertisements.

9. The mobile navigation system of claim 8 wherein the advertisements include one or more coupons.

10. The mobile navigation system of claim 7 wherein the promotional information is about a competitor of an establishment that is near the destination.

11. The mobile navigation system of claim 7 wherein the navigation computer is configured to allow the user to select one of the establishments and to provide guidance to the user about how to navigate to the selected establishment.

12. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the local information includes parking space location information about the location of a vacant parking space.

13. The mobile navigation system of claim 12 wherein the parking space location information is based on a database of notices from vehicles leaving parking spaces.

14. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the local information includes a search function which the user may use to locate a more specific location at the destination.

15. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the local information is based on a profile of the user.

16. The mobile navigation system of claim 15 wherein the profile of the user includes data relating to other destinations to which the navigation computer has guided the user.

17. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the information delivery system is configured to ask the user for permission to provide the local information to the user.

18. The mobile navigation system of claim 1 wherein the information delivery system is configured to automatically provide the local information to the user upon detection by the arrival detection system of the arrival of the mobile navigation system at the destination.

19. The mobile navigation system of claim 18 wherein, at the time the navigation computer receives the destination to which the user wishes to travel, the information delivery system is configured to ask the user whether the user wants the local information to be provided in response to detection by the arrival detection system of the arrival of the mobile navigation system at the destination.

20. The mobile navigation system of claim 18 wherein the information delivery system includes a global user setting which a user may set to automatically receive or not to automatically receive the local information each time the arrival detection system detects the arrival of the mobile navigation system at a destination.