Vaping heat map system and method for electronic vapor provision systems
AssigneeNicoventures Holdings Limited
InventorsDarryl BAKER, Ross OLDBURY
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Abstract
A method of generating of a map of vaping action events includes receiving respective notifications of a vaping action for each of a plurality of electronic vapor provision systems, logging GPS coordinates in response to detection of the vaping action, transmitting one or more logged sets of GPS coordinates to a vaping heat map server, and updating a vaping action count in one or more map regions in the map of vaping action events responsive to the transmitted GPS coordinates.
Claims10
A method of providing a map of vaping action events, comprising:
- receiving from a remote device a request for the map, the request comprising data indicating a location of interest;
- identifying one or more map regions in the map within a predetermined distance of a map position corresponding to the location of interest;
- retrieving a respective vaping action count corresponding to the one or more identified map regions;
- and
- transmitting data indicative of the respective vaping action count to the remote device.
A mobile communication device, comprising:
- a transmitter arranged to transmit a request for a map of vaping action events to a vaping map server, the map request specifying a location of interest;
- a receiver arranged to receive data indicative of an amount of previous vaping activity within a predetermined range of the location of interest;
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- a processor arranged to generate a display representative of the data on a display of the mobile communication device.
A vaping map server, comprising:
- a receiver arranged to receive:
- respective notifications of vaping action events and corresponding GPS coordinates from respective mobile communication devices, and
- a map request from a mobile communication device, the map request comprising data identifying a location of interest;
- a memory adapted to store a map of vaping action events comprising one or more map regions;
- a processor arranged to:
- update a vaping action count in the one or more map regions in the map responsive to the received GPS coordinates,
- identify one or more map regions within a predetermined distance of a map position corresponding to the location of interest, and
- retrieve the vaping action count corresponding to the identified one or more map regions;
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- a transmitter is arranged to transmit data indicative of the vaping action count to the mobile communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.