Facilitating access to location-specific information using wireless devices
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsImran A. Chaudhri, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicholas V. King, Daniel T. Preston, Anton M. Davydov
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Abstract
A host device (e.g., mobile device) and a wearable device can cooperate to provide location-specific information to a user. For example, a host device can maintain a store of location-specific information records. When the host device detects that its current location corresponds to a relevant location for one of the records, the host device can send the record (or a portion thereof) to a paired wearable device. The wearable device can present information content from the record to a human user and/or to a machine such as a scanner or wireless communication terminal.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a wearable device, information content for a location-specific information record from a mobile host device, the location-specific information record being associated with a relevant location of the mobile host device;
- determining, by the wearable device, whether to provide at least a portion of the information content;
- detecting, by the wearable device, one or more communication modes for providing the information content;
- determining, by the wearable device, a communication mode of the one or more communication modes based at least in part on a third device detected to be proximate to the wearable device;
- and
- providing, by the wearable device, at least the portion of the information content via an interface of the wearable device according to the determined communication mode.
A wearable device, comprising:
- a non-transitory memory configured to store computer-executable instructions;
- and
- a processor in communication with the non-transitory memory configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least:
- receive information content for a location-specific information record from a host device, the location-specific information record being associated with a relevant location of the host device;
- identify one or more communication modes for communicating the information content;
- determine a communication mode of the one or more communication modes based at least in part on a third device detected to be proximate to the wearable device, the one or more communication modes for providing at least a portion of the information content;
- and
- provide at least the portion of the information content via an interface of the wearable device according to the determined communication mode.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a wearable device, configure the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving information content for a location-specific information record from a mobile host device, the location-specific information record being associated with a relevant location of the mobile host device;
- determining whether to provide at least a portion of the information content;
- determining a communication mode for providing at least the portion of the information content when it is determined to present at least the portion of the information content, the communication mode determined based at least in part on a third device detected to be proximate to the wearable device;
- and
- providing at least the portion of the information content via an interface of the wearable device according to the determined communication mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.