System and method for situational location relevant invocable speed reference

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9317867-B2
Application number	US-201514629401-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2015
Priority date	Jun 7, 2000
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Johnson William J

Classifications

• G01S2205/02

  Indoor · CPC title

• G01S5/02

  using radio waves (using satellite radio beacon systems for determining position G01S19/00) · CPC title

• G06Q30/02

  Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising · CPC title

• H04M2242/14

  with services dependent on location · CPC title

• H04L67/18

  Electricity · mapped topic