Substantially continuous location logging for geographic-positioning capable devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10028224-B2
Application number	US-201615279228-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2016
Priority date	Mar 9, 2012
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

In one embodiment, a mobile computing device has a first processor and a second processor. The mobile device determines an operating condition of the mobile device, the operating condition being based on at least the current time of day, a current activity of a user associated with the mobile device, or a current proximity of the mobile device to a place connected to the user of the mobile device through an on-line social network. If the operating conditions of the mobile device are satisfied, the first processor of the mobile device sends a message to the second processor of the mobile device, the message causing the second processor to transition from a sleep state to an active state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining, by one or more first processors of a mobile device, an operating condition of the mobile device, the operating condition comprising a current proximity of the mobile device to one or more places of a ranked list of places, the ranked list of places ranked based on a distance from a current location of the mobile device and an activity of one or more of the user's social contacts associated with each place of the ranked list of places accessed from a social-networking system; and
if the operating condition satisfies the operating condition of the mobile device, then sending, by the first processors, a message to one or more second processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the second processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operating condition further comprises:
a current time of day; or
a current activity of a user associated with the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2 , where in the current location is based at least in part on:
a global positioning system (GPS) signal;
a Wi-Fi signal; or
a cellular radio signal.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the operating condition further comprises a predicted trajectory of the mobile device based on the current location and a location history of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the one or more places are associated with one or more entities of the on-line social network.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the user is further associated with the one or more entities through an on-line social network of the social-networking system.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the operating condition comprises:
determining that the current time of day corresponds to a time where a user of the mobile device is sleeping; and
if the current time of day corresponds to a sleeping time of the user, then refraining from sending the message to the second processors.

8. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the current activity of the user comprises determining a relative location of the mobile device to the user.

9. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media within a mobile device, the media embodying logic that is operable when executed to:
determine an operating condition of the mobile device, the operating condition comprising a current proximity of the mobile device to one or more places of a ranked list of places, the ranked list of places ranked based on a distance from a current location of the mobile device and an activity of one or more of the user's social contacts associated with each place of the ranked list of places accessed from a social-networking system; and
if the operating condition satisfies the operating condition of the mobile device, then send a message to one or more second processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the second processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state.

10. The media of claim 9 , wherein the operating condition further comprises:
a current time of day; or
a current activity of a user associated with the mobile device.

11. The media of claim 10 , where in the current location is based at least in part on:
a global positioning system (GPS) signal;
a Wi-Fi signal; or
a cellular radio signal.

12. The media of claim 10 , wherein the operating condition further comprises a predicted trajectory of the mobile device based on the current location and a location history of the mobile device.

13. The media of claim 9 , wherein each of the one or more places are associated with one or more entities of the on-line social network.

14. The media of claim 13 , wherein the user is further associated with the one or more entities through an on-line social network of the social-networking system.

15. The media of claim 10 , wherein the operating condition comprises:
determining that the current time of day corresponds to a time where a user of the mobile device is sleeping; and
if the current time of day corresponds to a sleeping time of the user, then refraining from sending the message to the second processors.

16. The media of claim 10 , wherein determining the current activity of the user comprises determining a relative location of the mobile device to the user.

17. A system comprising:
one or more first processors;
one or more second processors; and
a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
determine an operating condition of the mobile device, the operating condition comprising a current proximity of the mobile device to one or more places of a ranked list of places, the ranked list of places ranked based on a distance from a current location of the mobile device and an activity of one or more of the user's social contacts associated with each place of the ranked list of places accessed from a social-networking system; and
if the operating condition satisfies the operating condition of the mobile device, then send a message to one or more second processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the second processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the operating condition further comprises:
a current time of day; or
a current activity of a user associated with the mobile device.

19. The system of claim 18 , where in the current location is based at least in part on:
a global positioning system (GPS) signal;
a Wi-Fi signal; or
a cellular radio signal.

20. The system of claim 18 , wherein the operating condition further comprises a predicted trajectory of the mobile device based on the current location and a location history of the mobile device.

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Papakipos Matthew Nicholas
• Popov Lev
• Proctor Iain Andrew Russell

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• H04W52/0248 Primary

  dependent on the time of the day, e.g. according to expected transmission activity · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04W4/21

  for social networking applications · CPC title