SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING, MANAGING, AND FACILITING LOCATION- AND/OR OTHER CRITERIA-DEPENDENT TARGETED COMMUNICATIONS AND/OR TRANSACTIONS

• US 20140278061A1
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael, Joseph
• Original Assignee: Michael, Joseph
• Inventors: Michael, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US14/292,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20140278061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/423
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

A method for monitoring, managing, and facilitating location- and/or other criteria-dependent targeted communications and/or transactions includes: receiving signals and/or information that include or provide, or facilitate or initiate a process of providing access to, location information and one or more criteria, requirements, preferences, and/or other inputs pertaining to, or initiating or facilitating, one or more desired or requested communications and/or transactions, the information including, or being associated or established in association with, one or more identifiers at least one of which is mobile, floating, or transportable in relation to one or more of a machine, an apparatus, a device, an object, and a sentient entity with which the identifier is associated; and processing the signals and/or information to identify in association with at least one of the one or more identifiers one or more transactions, advertisements, messages, and/or communications that satisfy one or more criteria, requirements, and/or preferences.

Claims

1. A method performed on a vehicle navigation system for facilitating utilization of a transportation infrastructure, the method comprising:

receiving an input specifying a travel destination for the vehicle;

determining a plurality of different possible routes for the travel destination, different toll amounts being assessed on at least some segments of the possible routes;

selecting a route among the plurality of possible routes based at least in part on the toll amount for using the route; and

presenting information relating to the selected route.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of selecting a route includes comparing the toll amount for the route to a maximum amount to be paid.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of selecting a route is further based on the estimated travel time for using the route.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of selecting a route is further based on an amount available on an account.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of selecting a route is further based on a temporal travel budget.

6. A method performed on a vehicle navigation system for facilitating utilization of a transportation infrastructure, the method comprising:

receiving an input specifying a travel destination for the vehicle;

determining different possible routes for the travel destination, different toll amounts being assessed on at least some segments of the possible routes based on current and/or predicted traffic conditions; and

presenting information relating to the plurality of possible routes regardless of the toll amounts or the traffic conditions, the presented information including any tolls to be assessed.

7. A method performed on a vehicle navigation system for facilitating utilization of a transportation infrastructure, the method comprising:

receiving an input specifying a travel destination for the vehicle;

determining a plurality of different possible routes for presentation based at least in part on toll amounts being assessed on at least some segments of the possible routes based on current and/or predicted traffic conditions; and

presenting information related to the plurality of possible routes determined during the determining step.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of determining a plurality of different possible routes includes comparing any tolls to be assessed for a route to a maximum amount to be paid.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of determining a plurality of different possible routes is further based on the estimated travel time for using each route.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of determining a plurality of possible routes is further based on an amount available on an account.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of determining a plurality of possible routes is further based on a temporal travel budget.

12. A method performed on a vehicle navigation system for facilitating utilization of a transportation infrastructure, the method comprising:

receiving an input relating to a travel path for the vehicle;

determining a plurality of different possible routes for presentation based at least in part on toll amounts being assessed on at least some segments of the possible routes based on current and/or predicted traffic conditions; and

presenting information related to the plurality of possible routes determined during the determining step, including the amount of any tolls to be assessed.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of determining a plurality of different possible routes includes comparing any tolls to be assessed for a route to a maximum amount to be paid.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of determining a plurality of different possible routes is further based on the estimated travel time for using each route.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of determining a plurality of possible routes is further based on an amount available on an account.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of determining a plurality of possible routes is further based on a temporal travel budget.