US 8,942,733 B2Granted

System and method for location based exchanges of data facilitating distributed location applications

OwnerWilliam J. Johnsoninventor

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Abstract

Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing systems (MSs) interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. Data is shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out novel Location Based eXchanges (LBX) of data for new mobile applications. Information which is transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, or is in process at, a mobile data processing system, is used to trigger processing of actions in accordance with user configured permissions, charters, and other configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a user configurable platform is provided for quickly building well behaving LBX applications at MSs and across a plurality of interoperating MSs.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

presenting, by a mobile data processing system with phone call capability, a configuration user interface to a user of the mobile data processing system for configuring search criteria and an associated action, the search criteria used by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system for searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
storing, by the mobile data processing system, the associated action and the search criteria for the searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, wherein the search criteria includes a condition for detecting environmental condition information within a vicinity of a specified data processing system;
completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface after the user specifies the search criteria and the associated action with the configuration user interface;
comparing, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria including the condition for detecting environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system to the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system upon the comparing;
and
invoking the associated action upon the detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system.

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A mobile data processing system with phone call capability, comprising:

one or more processors;
a user interface;
and
memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory includes executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, results in the system:
presenting, by the mobile data processing system, a configuration user interface to a user of the mobile data processing system for configuring search criteria and an associated action, the search criteria used by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system for searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
storing, by the mobile data processing system, the associated action and the search criteria for the searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, wherein the search criteria includes a condition for detecting environmental condition information within a vicinity of a specified data processing system;
completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface after the user specifies the search criteria and the associated action with the configuration user interface;
comparing, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria including the condition for detecting environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system to the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system upon the comparing;
and
invoking the associated action upon the detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system.

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A programmed product comprising:

a memory storing instructions that, when executed, causes operations comprising:
presenting, by a mobile data processing system with phone call capability, a configuration user interface to a user of the mobile data processing system for configuring search criteria and an associated action, the search criteria used by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system for searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
storing, by the mobile data processing system, the associated action and the search criteria for the searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, wherein the search criteria includes a condition for detecting environmental condition information within a vicinity of a specified data processing system;
completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface after the user specifies the search criteria and the associated action with the configuration user interface;
comparing, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria including the condition for detecting environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system to the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system upon the comparing;
and
invoking the associated action upon the detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system.

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A storage device storing instructions for execution by one or more processors, wherein the instructions cause operations comprising:

presenting, by a mobile data processing system with phone call capability, a configuration user interface to a user of the mobile data processing system for configuring search criteria and an associated action, the search criteria used by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system for searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
storing, by the mobile data processing system, the associated action and the search criteria for the searching information detected by the mobile data processing system, wherein the search criteria includes a condition for detecting environmental condition information within a vicinity of a specified data processing system;
completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface after the user specifies the search criteria and the associated action with the configuration user interface;
comparing, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria including the condition for detecting environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system to the information first made available after completely terminating, by the mobile data processing system, the configuration user interface;
detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system upon the comparing;
and
invoking the associated action upon the detecting, by the mobile data processing system asynchronously and independently from the any active user interface context of the mobile data processing system, the search criteria and the environmental condition information within the vicinity of the specified data processing system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/087,353Filed 22 Nov 2013 · continuation
Priority: 14 Mar 2008
Published: US 2014/0080522 A120 Mar 2014
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…
G06F 16/24
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: querying
G06F 16/284
Databases characterised by their database models, e.g. relational or object models: relational databases
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network

Family

Application12/077,041Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 14 Mar 2008
Application12/287,064Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Oct 2008
US 2014/0080522 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Mar 2014
US 8,639,267 B2Parent of this continuation
US 8,600,341 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application12/287,064Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2009/0233622 A1Published application
US 2009/0233623 A1Published application
US 8,942,733 B2This patent

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