System and method for situational location relevant invocable speed reference

• US 9,317,867 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2015
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Johnson, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): MULLEN, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US14/629,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20150178764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 340/8.1, 340/539.13, 340/995.24, 455/456.3, 701/426, 709/219
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/02 Indoor
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/02 using radio waves using satellite radio beacon systems for determining position G01S19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location where the service is an information service H04M2242/15; services independent of location H04M3/42229
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/15 Information service where the information is dependent on the location of the subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42348 Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 : Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• 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 4/024 : Guidance services
• 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 4/33 : for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 : Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 : Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 : Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 : Recoverability

Abstract

Situational location dependent information is transmitted from a server data processing system to a receiving data processing system. A candidate delivery event associated with a current positional attribute of the receiving data processing system is recognized and a situational location of the remote data processing system is determined. The candidate delivery event may be a location and/or direction change, device state change, or movement exceeding a movement tolerance. A set of delivery content from a deliverable content database is transmitted from the server data processing system to the receiving data processing system according to the situational location of the receiving data processing system, and according to delivery constraints.

Claims

1. A speed reference invocation method in a handheld device, said method comprising:

determining, by the handheld device, a situational location of a user associated with a content delivery event, the situational location being proximate to at least one antenna station of a local area network, where the at least one antenna station is registered in an overlay map of a grid of cells; and

responsive to said determining, invoking an invocable speed reference,

wherein said invocable speed reference is a web address and wherein said step of invoking said invocable speed reference includes invoking a browser to enable said user to browse said content on a webpage associated with said web address.

2. The method of claim 1, where said invocation of the web address results in a graphical map being delivered to said handheld device, said graphical map showing a location of an establishment associated with said web address.

3. The method of claim 2, where said graphical map shows the location of said handheld device in relation to said establishment.

4. The method of claim 1, where said antenna station is located in an indoor environment.

5. The method of claim 4, where said indoor environment is a store and said user is a shopper in said store.

6. The method of claim 5, where said content is an advertisement or coupon.

7. The method of claim 1, where invoking said web address is automatic.

8. The method of claim 1, where at least a portion of said content is cached in the handheld device.

9. The method of claim 1, where said content is filtered at said handheld device by user-configurable filters.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

delivering said content to said handheld device according to a delivery constraint.

11. A handheld device comprising:

one or more processors;

memory coupled to the one or more processors and configured for storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

determining a situational location of a user associated with a content delivery event, the situational location being proximate to at least one antenna station of a local area network, where the at least one antenna station is registered in an overlay map of a grid of cells; and

responsive to said determining, invoking an invocable speed reference,

wherein said invocable speed reference is a web address and wherein said step of invoking said invocable speed reference includes invoking a browser to enable said user to browse said content on a webpage associated with said web address.

12. The handheld device of claim 11, where said invocation of the web address results in a graphical map being delivered to said handheld device, said graphical map showing a location of an establishment associated with said web address.

13. The handheld device of claim 12, where said graphical map shows the location of said handheld device in relation to said establishment.

14. The handheld device of claim 11, where said antenna station is located in an indoor environment.

15. The handheld device of claim 14, where said indoor environment is a store and said user is a shopper in said store.

16. The handheld device of claim 15, where said content is an advertisement or coupon.

17. The handheld device of claim 11, where invoking said web address is automatic.

18. The handheld device of claim 11, where at least a portion of said content is cached in said handheld device.

19. The handheld device of claim 11, where said content is filtered at said handheld device by user-configurable filters.

20. The handheld device of claim 11, further comprising:

delivering said content to said handheld device according to a delivery constraint.