Location-based mobile application and service selection

• US 9,247,386 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2013
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Pierce, Jeffrey S., Robson, Christine M., Schoudt, Jerald T., Kau, Christian
• Primary Examiner(s): Magloire, Vladimir
• Assistant Examiner(s): HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA
• Application Number:
  US14/132,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20150172862A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A method, mobile device, application server, and computer program product, for requesting a geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that are both specific to a geospatial location corresponding to a current geospatial location of the mobile device. The mobile device determines a current geospatial location of the mobile device and sends a request message to an application server. The request message includes the current geospatial location of the mobile device and a request to receive a geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service. The mobile device receives a response message including identification of a candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service, specific to a geospatial location within a defined nearby vicinity area of the current geospatial location of the mobile device. The mobile device displays a list of selectable choices prioritized by proximity of geospatial location associated with each candidate geospatial-location-specific application.

Claims

1. A method, with a mobile device including a processor coupled to a memory, the mobile device being communicatively coupled with an application server, the method comprising:

determining a current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of a plurality of overlaid geospatial maps where each of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps corresponds to a different context for a request message to send to an application server, each context being different from the context of the other of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps;

storing a representation of the current geospatial location in the memory;

sending a request message, from the mobile device to the application server, the request message including a representation of the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps and a request for receiving at the mobile device at least one geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that are both specific to the current geospatial location of the mobile device;

receiving, from the application server, a response message including identification of at least one candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that is specific to a geospatial location that is within a defined nearby vicinity area of the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps; and

presenting at a user interface associated with the mobile device a list of user selectable choices prioritized by proximity of geospatial location associated with each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service relative to the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the response message includes identification of at least one candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that are both specific to the current geo spatial location of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting comprises:

displaying the list of user selectable choices at the user interface, the list being further prioritized by at least one of;

popularity of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service; and

public rating of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location- specific service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting comprises:

displaying the list of user selectable choices at the user interface, the list being further prioritized by

a favorite ranking of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application for a user of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting comprises:

displaying the list of user selectable choices at the user interface, the list being further prioritized by

frequency of access to each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application by a user of the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting comprises:

displaying the list of user selectable choices at the user interface, the list being further prioritized by

recency of access to each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application by a user of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the response message including:

a uniform resource locator (URL), lower than a top level domain uniform resource locator (TLD URL), associated with a network location of an instance of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one user-selectable choice in the list being selectable by a user of the mobile device to request receiving from an application server a copy of an identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with the one user-selectable choice.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining comprises:

receiving, with the processor, sensor information from at least one sensor associated with the mobile device, the determining of the current geospatial location of the mobile device being based at least on the sensor information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one sensor is a component of the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one sensor is external to the mobile device, the sensor information from the at least one sensor transmitted to the mobile device contemporaneous with the mobile device being located at the current geospatial location.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the response message including a description of at least one of a use of each candidate geospatial-location-specific application and a use of the geospatial-location-specific service associated with the each candidate, the presenting including displaying at the user interface the description of the use.

13. A method, with an application server that is communicatively coupled with a mobile device, comprising:

receiving a request message from the mobile device, the request message including;

indication of a current geospatial location of the mobile device determined by the mobile device with respect to one of a plurality of overlaid geospatial maps where each of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps corresponds to a different context for a request message to send to an application server, each context being different from the context of the other of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps, and

a request for receiving at the mobile device at least one geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that are both specific to a geospatial location corresponding to the current geospatial location of the mobile device;

searching, based on the indication of the current geospatial location of the mobile device and the request received in the request message, in a geospatial application and service database to find search results that include identification of at least one candidate geospatial-location- specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that matches the request in the request message; and

sending a response message destined for reception by the mobile device, the response message including identification of a candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that is specific to a geospatial location that is within a defined nearby vicinity area of the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the response message including:

a copy of the candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with the geospatial-location-specific service.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

filtering the searching to find at least one candidate geospatial-location-specific application and associated geospatial-location-specific service based on at least one of;

popularity of a candidate geospatial-location-specific application by users of the candidate geospatial-location-specific application;

public rating of a candidate geospatial-location-specific application by users of the candidate geospatial-location-specific application;

a favorite ranking of a candidate geospatial-location-specific application for a user of the mobile device;

frequency of access to a candidate geospatial-location-specific application by a user of the mobile device; and

recency of access to a candidate geospatial-location-specific application by a user of the mobile device.

16. A computer program product for a mobile device, the computer program product comprising:

a storage medium readable by a processing circuit of a mobile device and storing instructions which, responsive to being executed by the processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to perform operations comprising;

determining a current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of a plurality of overlaid geospatial maps where each of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps corresponds to a different context for a request message to send to an application server, each

context being different from the context of the other of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps;

storing a representation of the current geospatial location in memory;

sending a request message from the mobile device to an application server, the request message including a representation of the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps and a request for receiving at the mobile device at least one geospatial-location-specific application associated with at least one geospatial-location-specific service that are both specific to a geospatial location corresponding the current geospatial location of the mobile device;

receiving, from the application server, a response message including identification of at least one candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial- location-specific service that is specific to a geospatial location that is within a defined nearby vicinity area of the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps; and

presenting at a user interface associated with the mobile device a list of user selectable choices prioritized by proximity of geospatial location associated with each candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service relative to the current geospatial location of the mobile device with respect to one of the plurality of overlaid geospatial maps.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the response message includes a copy of at least one candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service that are both specific to the current geospatial location of the mobile device.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the response message including:

a uniform resource locator (URL), lower than a top level domain uniform resource locator (TLD URL), associated with a network location of an instance of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein at least one user-selectable choice in the list being selectable by a user of the mobile device to request receiving from an application server a copy of an identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with the one user-selectable choice.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the presenting comprises:

displaying the list of user selectable choices at the user interface, the list being further prioritized by at least one of;

popularity of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service;

public rating of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application associated with a geospatial-location-specific service;

a favorite ranking of each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application for a user of the mobile device;

frequency of access to each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application by a user of the mobile device; and

recency of access to each identified candidate geospatial-location-specific application by a user of the mobile device.