Method and system of automatic generation of travel based action

Abstract

We describe a system that is useful for a traveler to automatically be notified by a portable device when his destination has arrived. Unlike, previous methods that required the traveler to set the alarm each time when he starts the travel and then to turn of the alarm when he reaches the destination, our invention does not require any day intervention by the user. Some simple one time entries, by a commuter for example, will allow the portable device to generate alarms at the proper destination and time without requiring the commuter to enable and disable the alarm. A user defines a travel as a pair of originating and destination location points. A travel Alarm System on a portable device is described which generates an alarm at the predefined destination point only when the portable device automatically detects a travel from the predefined starting point to the predefined destination point. The location information to aid the detection of a travel can be done via GPS on the phone, assists from the wireless carriers or other ways to determine location information. Furthermore, instead of generating a notification to the user of the portable device, a notification can be sent to a third party.

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