Location services
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorNeil Broadbent
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Abstract
A portable device arranged to repeatedly determine its position, determine when it has been in the same location for a predetermined length of time on the basis of the periodically determined positions and, when it determines that it has been in the same location for the predetermined length of time, keep a record of that location. The device being further arranged to perform said determining and recording continuously and independently of a user.
Claims20
A portable device comprising a memory and a processor, the portable device being configured to:
- repeatedly attempt to determine a position of the portable device independently of user requests, to provide a plurality of consecutive positioning attempt results;
- identify a determined location as a location of interest, based on whether the portable device has been in a same location for a predetermined length of time according to the plurality of consecutive positioning attempt results, wherein the predetermined length of time is greater than a length of time between consecutive positioning attempt results, wherein the location of interest is identified independently of user requests;
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- display, on a display, a visual representation of at least one identified location of interest.
A method for a device to record its location, the method comprising:
- repeatedly attempting to determine a position of the device;
- identifying a determined location as a location of interest, based on whether the device has been in the a location for a predetermined length of time according to the plurality of consecutive positioning attempt results, wherein the predetermined length of time is greater than a length of time between consecutive positioning attempt results, wherein the location of interest is identified independently of user requests;
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- displaying, on a display, a visual representation of at least one identified location of interest.
A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions embodied thereon, said instructions adapted to be executed for configuring a portable device to:
- repeatedly attempt to determine a position of the portable device independently of user requests, to provide a plurality of consecutive positioning attempt results;
- identify a determined location as a location of interest, based on whether the portable device has been in a same location for a predetermined length of time according to the plurality of consecutive positioning attempt results, wherein the predetermined length of time is greater than a length of time between consecutive positioning attempt results, wherein the location of interest is identified independently of user requests;
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- display, on a display, a visual representation of at least one identified location of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.