Situation information system
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1. A scalable, openly accessible, dispatcher obviating, situation information system comprising:
- a. mobile computers with radios severally operated by users substantially transmitting information including location data, receiving situation information of selectable execution, including audible, visual, and tactile execution, and continually receiving telephone numbers of diverse providers of services and merchandise while obviating the resulting interference imposed by the obligatory answering of a ringing telephone as automated updates occur, and conducting shopping functions in shopping areas including stores and malls,b. radio locating means by which, from said location data including triangulation systems installed within and among buildings, the location of each of said mobile computers is determined and processed into location information including information pertaining to, and derivable from, the change in location of each of said mobile computers, andc. one or more radio sources of said situation information, including said location information, proximate information and other information, for purposes including presenting entertainment, commercial offers, and advertising whereby users of said mobile computers with radios benefit from timely information pertaining to situations within their locus.
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Abstract
A wireless system for providing services and time-critical information about places and events to mobile computers and their users proximate to their current locations or potential destinations within enclosed areas, urban landscapes, and open areas, including travel distances and transit times, entertainment, merchants'"'"' messages, area attractions, communications, current locations of system users, and traffic congestion information and user-generated information from bar-coded objects and digital photographs of scenes and other materials. Included is a combination low-radiation dosage-reception handset for wireless communications which includes bar-code reader and digital camera peripheral devices for mobile computers, a bracket for interfacing a mobile computer with radio to external systems, and methods for improving the operations of computer reception, search, and display of such information for the edification, efficiency, and enjoyment of computer users.
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1. A scalable, openly accessible, dispatcher obviating, situation information system comprising:
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a. mobile computers with radios severally operated by users substantially transmitting information including location data, receiving situation information of selectable execution, including audible, visual, and tactile execution, and continually receiving telephone numbers of diverse providers of services and merchandise while obviating the resulting interference imposed by the obligatory answering of a ringing telephone as automated updates occur, and conducting shopping functions in shopping areas including stores and malls, b. radio locating means by which, from said location data including triangulation systems installed within and among buildings, the location of each of said mobile computers is determined and processed into location information including information pertaining to, and derivable from, the change in location of each of said mobile computers, and c. one or more radio sources of said situation information, including said location information, proximate information and other information, for purposes including presenting entertainment, commercial offers, and advertising whereby users of said mobile computers with radios benefit from timely information pertaining to situations within their locus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for conducting shopping functions in shopping areas including stores and malls wherein information is communicated wirelessly by providers of services and merchandise, including offers pertaining to the buying and selling of said services and merchandise, to potential customers severally using mobile computers with radios substantially continually receiving telephone numbers of said providers and obviating the resulting interference imposed by the obligatory answering of a ringing telephone as automated updates occur, comprising the steps of:
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a. acting substantially simultaneously with receipt of a gating pulse from a transmitter, transmitting customer information, including identification and location information, severally by said mobile computers with radios, and receiving said identification and location information in said situation information system, b. ascertaining subsequently whether said location information of a selected subset of said mobile computers with radios indicates said computers suitably proximate to said offers, or display thereof, presented by said providers, and c. transmitting one or more said offers including by visual, aural, and other data types and other pertinent information, severally to said subset of said mobile computers with radios according to said customers'"'"' selections and contingently dependent on subsequent actions of said customers whereby said customers using said computers with radios can shop more knowledgeably and efficiently. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A method of communicatively executing, including making apparent to the aural and tactile senses of the user, one or more transmittable mappable hypertext items representing people, organisms, and objects, including buildings, roads, vehicles, and signs, on a computer in a manner scalably representing interrelationships of said objects, comprising the steps of:
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a. searching each of one or more unique mappable information code sequences, each of which said code sequences serving to uniquely represent one of said items and copied from the memory of said computer or received from an alternate source, for a field containing geographical coordinates, said each of said code sequences includes an item reference field, a name field, a location field including said geographical coordinates, and a data field, b. converting said coordinates to an appropriately proportionate representation on said computer, and c. displaying selectably scalably said items on said computer whereby said user may quickly receive and display timely situation information mapped in the context of spatial information, including appropriate to a geographical or other area, in which said mappable hypertext items are quickly received, mapped, and optionally executably selected by said user to provide additional of said situation information or received, stored, and transmitted by a provider of said situation information. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A method of receiving in a mobile computer substantially moving relative to locations of timely interest to the user of said computer, including one or more sources of transmitted digital information describing said locations including services and resources currently available at said locations from one or more selectable visit lists of said sources of said information capable of being organized according to said locations'"'"' proximity, timeliness, and other criteria into the memory of said computer, substantially continually receiving telephone numbers of providers of said services and resources and obviating the resulting interference imposed by the obligatory answering of a ringing telephone as automated updates occur, comprising the steps of:
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a. executing information from a selectably precedent source of said digital information on said mobile computer, including being viewed on a display, b. receiving substantially simultaneously information from subsequently selected of the remaining of said sources of said digital information from said organizable sources on said lists, and c. storing said information from said sources in a retrievable manner in said mobile computer memory for execution selectably alternatively and timely, including preemptively or subsequently, to said information from any of said sources whereby time-critical, location-dependent information transmitted comparatively slowly from multiple sources of said digital information can be received by a traveler using said mobile computer in a timely way while information currently executing is utilized. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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Current AssigneeLBS Innovations LLC (Empire IP LLC)
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Original AssigneeDennis D. Hollenberg
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InventorsHollenberg, Dennis D.
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Primary Examiner(s)Vo, Nguyen
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Assistant Examiner(s)Bhattacharya, Sam
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Application NumberUS08/873,965Time in Patent Office1,132 DaysField of Search455/432, 455/433, 455/435, 455/456, 455/556, 455/557, 455/558, 455/566, 455/12.1, 342/357, 342/454, 342/457, 340/825.47, 340/311.1, 340/905US Class Current455/456.5CPC Class CodesG06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation...H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the l...H04W 4/02 Services making use of loca...H04W 4/029 Location-based management o...H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals...
