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US 8,509,803 B2Granted
System and method for providing territory-based actionable events
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorMarc Gracieux
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Abstract
An approach is provided for territory-based actionable events. Positional information corresponding to a location of a device is received over a communication network. The location is correlated to one or more predefined territories. An alert is selectively generated based on the correlation, wherein an event is performed in response to generation of the alert.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, over a communication network, real-time positional information corresponding to a location of a device;
- correlating the location to one or more predefined territories, the territories are defined based on upon scheduling information, or dynamically defined based on current event information;
- and
- selectively generating an alert based on the correlation,
- wherein an event is performed in response to generation of the alert, and
- wherein the predefined territories include a friendly territory, and an unfriendly territory, the alert being generated if the location is within the unfriendly territory.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface configured to receive, over a communication network, real-time positional information corresponding to a location of a device;
- and
- an alert generation module configured to correlate the location to one or more predefined territories defined based on upon scheduling information, or dynamically defined based on current event information, and to selectively generate an alert based on the correlation,
- wherein an event is performed in response to generation of the alert, and
- wherein the predefined territories include a friendly territory, and an unfriendly territory, the alert being generated if the location is within the unfriendly territory.
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A system comprising:
- a platform configured to
- subscribe a plurality of devices to an alert service, and to define, for each of the devices, an alert territory for triggering an alert upon entry of the device into the alert territory,
- receive real-time positional information corresponding to a location of at least one of the devices, and
- perform, for each of the devices, an actionable event when the location information corresponding to the device correlates with the assigned alert territory for the device,
- wherein the alert territories are defined according to a schedule and the actionable event is executed according to a pre-defined policy, policy, and
- wherein the platform is further configured to define a friendly territory for one or more of the devices, and the one or more devices being configured to receive another alert upon exiting the friendly territory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.