Providing information to a mobile device based on an event at a geographical location

• US 9,094,794 B1
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Philips North America LLC (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: White, James N., Martino, Monica Rose, Smith, M. Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Mahendra
• Application Number:
  US14/586,294
• Time in Patent Office: 210 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3, 455/446, 455/458, 455/426.1, 455/410, 455/404.1, 455/422.1, 342/457, 340/539.13, 340/426.19, 340/988, 340/8.1, 702/3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for receiving information about an event from at least one mobile device, the information comprising location information and event type information and identifying the event based on the information, the event being identified by associating the event type information with a specific event and associating the location information with a particular location associated with the specific event.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

capturing information about an event, that has occurred above a predetermined threshold, by at least one mobile device;

performing a lookup of at least one other mobile device associated with at least one service provider site;

identifying a location of the at least one other mobile device; and

sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device if the at least one other mobile device is within a predetermined distance of the event based on the location associated with a specific event;

wherein the sending of the alert comprises sending at least one of;

a first alert to a first mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving towards the event; and

a second alert to a second mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving away from the event.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising at least one of:

identifying the event, via an event alert server, based on the information, the information comprising location information and event type information; and

sending the information from the at least one mobile device to the event alert server.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving an alert of the event at the least one other mobile device if at least one of a following occurs:

the event is the specific event;

the event occurs at or near a geographical location; and

the at least one other mobile device is located at or near the geographical location.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of:

determining if the event is a specific event; and

if the event occurred at or near a geographical location, comprises at least one of;

processing information related to the event, wherein the processing comprises;

recognizing an image from the information about the event;

identifying the type of the event based on the image; and

identifying the location of the event based on the location of the at least one mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device comprises at least one of:

performing a lookup of the at least one other mobile device associated with at least one service provider site; and

sending the alert to the at least one other mobile device associated with at least one service provider site.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the event comprises associating the event type information with the specific event and associating the location information with a location associated with the specific event.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device comprises at least one of:

sending the alert to at least one service provider site; and

forwarding the alert from the at least one service provider site to the at least one other mobile device associated with the at least one service provider site.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device comprises at least one of:

identifying a location of at least one service provider site from a geographical information system;

sending the alert to the at least one service provider site within a predetermined distance of the event based on the location; and

forwarding the alert from the at least one service provider site to the at least one other mobile device associated with the at least one service provider site.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first mobile device and the second mobile device is the at least one mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device comprises sending the alert to the at least one other mobile device based on a period of time the at least one other mobile device is registered with a service provider site.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform:

capturing information about an event, that has occurred above a predetermined threshold, by at least one mobile device;

performing a lookup of at least one other mobile device associated with at least one service provider site;

identifying a location of the at least one other mobile device; and

sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device if the at least one other mobile device is within a predetermined distance of the event based on the location associated with a specific event;

wherein the sending of the alert comprises sending at least one of;

a first alert to a first mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving towards the event; and

a second alert to a second mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving away from the event.

12. A system, comprising:

an event alert system comprising a network, processor and memory, wherein the processor is configured to;

receive information about an event, that has occurred above a predetermined

threshold, from at least one mobile device;

perform a lookup of at least one other mobile device associated with at least one service provider site;

receive a location of the at least one other mobile device; and

send an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device if the at least one other mobile device is within a predetermined distance of the event based on a location associated with a specific event;

wherein the alert sent comprises at least one of;

a first alert sent to a first mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving towards the event; and

a second alert sent to a second mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving away from the event.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising at least one event monitor operable to perform at least one of a following:

sense an occurrence of the event;

determine if the event is above the predetermined threshold; and

notify the event alert system of the occurrence of the event if the event is above the predetermined threshold.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the event is identified based on the information, the information comprising location information and event type information, by an association of the event type information with the specific event stored in the repository and an association of the location information with a location associated with the specific event.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the event alert system is further operable to perform at least one of a following:

send the alert to at least one service provider site; and

cause the at least one service provider site to forward the alert from the at least one service provider site to the at least one other mobile device associated with the at least one service provider site.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein information about the event is received if at least one of the following occurs:

the event is the specific event;

the event occurs at or near a geographical location; and

the at least one mobile device is located at or near the geographical location.

17. The system of claim 12, further comprising at least one geographical information system, wherein the at least one geographical information system sends the location of the at least one other mobile device.

18. The system of claim 12, further comprising at least one geographical information system, wherein the event alert system is further operable to perform at least one of a following:

identify a location of at least one service provider site from the at least one geographical information system;

send the alert to the at least one service provider site within a predetermined distance of the event based on the location; and

forward the alert from the at least one service provider site to at least one of;

the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one service provider site and the at least one other mobile device.

19. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

at least one image recognition system; and

at least one geographical information system;

wherein the at least one image recognition system is operable to recognize an image from the information about the event;

wherein the event alert system is operable to identify at least one of;

a type of the event based on the image; and

a location of the event based on a location of the at least one mobile device from the at least one geographical information system.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein the event alert system is further operable to perform at least one of a following:

register at least one mobile user associated with the at least one mobile device;

monitor a specific event;

determine if the monitored event is the specific event based on a type of the event and a location of the event; and

send an alert of the event, if the event is the specific event, to at least one of;

the at least one mobile device and the at least one other mobile device.