Integration of location logs, GPS signals, and spatial resources for identifying user activities, goals, and context

A method of operating a GPS-enabled wireless device, the method comprising:

• computing location coordinates of a user using the GPS-enabled wireless device;
• predicting a future activity of the user based on user context at the location coordinates;
• determining a direction in which the wireless device is pointed by the user;
• receiving user input determining dimensions of a field of view to query;
• generating the field of view including the direction;
• searching websites disposed on a network using a search query to identify businesses within the field of view related to the predicted future activity, the search query being based at least on the location coordinates and coordinates for the field of view;
• retrieving a list of links to websites of businesses that satisfy the search query;
• querying the websites on the list of links to find information associated with the businesses an associated business;
• inferring business information obtained from the querying of the websites that is of interest to the user based upon historical data associated with the user and user preferences;
• and
• presenting the inferred business information to the user.

A system that facilitates the identification of user goals, comprising the following computer executable components stored in computer memory and executable by a processor:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions, when executed by the processor, implement components comprising:
• a location component that determines location data of a wireless communications device of a user, wherein the location data comprises location co-ordinates, the location component searches a network of websites and resolves the location co-ordinates into a nearest street address;
• a context component that:
• accesses context data, the context data including location data, includes a directional component that, based on user input, generates a query cone defining dimensions of space to query in a direction pointed by the wireless communications device, obtains a fist list of businesses that are situated in the direction of the query cone based at least on the location data, the direction, and the dimensions of the query cone, predicts a future activity of the user based on the context data, and filters the fist list of businesses, the filtering creating a second list of businesses based at least on the predicted future activity of the user;
• and
• a display component that displays at least a portion of the filtered second list of businesses on the wireless communications device, wherein
• the context data comprises at least one environmental parameter relating to surroundings of the user;
• and
• the system further comprises at least one sensor to determine the at least one environmental parameter.