FACILITATING ENVIRONMENT VIEWS EMPLOYING CROWD SOURCED INFORMATION

• US 20150112773A1
• Filed: 10/21/2013
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shahraray, Behzad, Begeja, Lee, Gibbon, David Crawford, Liu, Zhu, Renger, Bernard S., Zavesky, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/058,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20150112773A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Facilitation of environment views employing crowd sourced information is provided. For example, an apparatus can determine a location of an environment of interest at a first defined time, and identify recording components proximate to the location substantially at the first defined time. The recording components can be communicatively coupleable to the apparatus. The apparatus can also request information from identified recording components, wherein the information is recorded by the recording components substantially at the first defined time, and stored at the recording components. The apparatus can receive the information from the identified recording components, and generate information indicative of a representation of an aspect of the environment substantially at the first defined time based on aggregating the received information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying, by a first device comprising a processor, a second device of devices associated with respective recording components, wherein the identifying is based on geographic locations of the devices and a location of an environment of interest; and

transmitting, by the first device to a recording component of the respective recording components, a message indicative of a request for recorded information representing the location of the environment of interest, wherein the recording component is associated with the second device of the devices.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the message further comprises incentivization information indicative of a reward to provide the recorded information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second device is a mobile device and wherein the reward to provide the recorded information is a function of a travel distance between another location of the second device substantially at a time of the transmitting and the location of the environment of interest.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the second device is a mobile device and wherein the reward to provide the recorded information is a function of an estimated travel difficulty for the second device to obtain the recorded information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, at the time of the transmitting, the second device is at another location remote from the location of the environment of interest.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the first device, from a third device, a request for the recorded information.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

brokering, by the first device, a fee between the second device and the third device for retrieval of the recorded information by the second device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the first device, from the recording component, the recorded information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording component comprises a camera.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording component is configured to perform depth-sensing.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording component comprises a measuring device configured to determine an aspect of weather at the location of the environment of interest.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a first device comprising a processor, from a second device remote from the first device, a request for recorded information about an aspect of an environment, wherein the receiving is based on identification of the first device, by the second device, at a defined geographical location associated with the environment substantially at a defined time of interest; and

transmitting, by the first device, to the second device, the recorded information, wherein the recorded information is stored at the first device.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

recording, by the first device, the aspect of the environment; and

storing, at the first device, the recorded information.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the receiving is further based on a geographical direction of travel of the first device.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the recorded information is generated substantially at the defined time of interest.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the request for recorded information comprises a request to power on a recording component of the first device.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

determining a location of an environment of interest at a first defined time;

identifying recording components proximate to the location substantially at the first defined time, wherein the recording components are communicatively coupleable to the apparatus; and

requesting recorded information from identified recording components, wherein the recorded information is recorded by the identified recording components substantially at the first defined time, and stored at the identified recording components.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the recorded information from the identified recording components; and

generating information indicative of a representation of an aspect of the environment substantially at the first defined time based on aggregating received recorded information.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting information, at a second defined time, to cause the recording components to power on, wherein the transmitting the information to cause the recording components to power on is based on presence of the recording components in the environment substantially at the first defined time.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the second defined time is after the first defined time, and wherein locations of the recording components at times of the transmitting are distinct from the location of the environment of interest at the first defined time.