Location Based Personal Organizer
Present invention discloses a location specific personal organizer system for communication devices. Personal organizer, as a combined application with contact list of communication device or as a stand alone application; is provided with means to link task with anticipated location and corresponding GPS coordinates. Means is provided in GPS enabled communication device to determine if any task in personal organizer is due at its current location. Task due at current location is displayed on communication device. According to another aspect of the invention means is disclosed to auto fill information into data fields of contact list entry in communication device in response to information provided in a unique identifier data field of contact list entry.
This application is a continuation application claiming priority under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to currently pending U.S. Non-provisional patent application Ser. No. 12/046,358, filed on Mar. 11, 2008. The entire disclosure of the aforesaid prior application is hereby incorporated by reference.
FIELD OF INVENTIONThe present invention relates to personal organizer system and contact list of communication devices.
BACKGROUND AND PRIOR ARTAddress book and personal organizer are two most common features used in personal communication devices such as mobile phones. Address book provides users means to store contact information of businesses and individuals. Usually address book provides users means to store contact information such as name, address, phone, fax, email, web site etc. In addition most modern personal communication devices enable speed dial of phone numbers contained in entry of address book. Personal organizer provides users means to enter planned tasks according to anticipated time of execution of corresponding tasks. Usually users are able to enter anticipated tasks into the personal organizer according to anticipated time of task i.e. date, day of the week, year, hour and minute etc. Most personal organizer systems have alarm feature to remind users of a task at a time prior to entered time of task as selected by user. However, another important feature applicable to any task i.e. location of anticipated task is not incorporated in any personal organizer system currently in use. Although personal organizer systems currently in use are able to remind users of tasks as a function of time, this sometimes is not useful as user is not present at the location of task at the time of reminder and hence is unable to execute said task. Moreover, many tasks are location critical as opposed to time critical. For example, user may want to be reminded to purchase milk when user is in a grocery store, irrespective of the time. Hence there remains a need for personal organizer system that enables user to be reminded of task as a function of location of user.
SUMMARYPresent invention discloses a GPS enabled contact list for communication devices. Means is provided in communication device to integrate GPS coordinates corresponding to physical address contained in its contact list. Personal organizer, as a combined application with contact list or as a stand alone application; is provided with means to link task with its anticipated location and corresponding GPS coordinates. Means is provided in GPS enabled communication device to determine if any task in personal organizer is due at its current location. Task due at current location is displayed on communication device. According to another aspect of the invention means is disclosed to auto fill information into data fields of contact list entry in communication device in response to information provided in a unique identifier data field of contact list entry.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods, and systems for carrying out one or several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Many personal communication devices, such as cellular phones come equipped with global positioning system (GPS) receiver which enables users determine their location. The location of communication device is determined by GPS via communication link with GPS Satellite and is represented as GPS coordinates. Additionally, by means of geo-coding, physical address corresponding to GPS coordinates can easily be determined. Other means of determining location of communication devices is also available, such as cellular tower location determination. As shown in
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The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out one or several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Some variations of the invention may include: 1) In addition to GPS coordinates, other method of localization of communication device, such as determination of location of cellular tower can be used; 2) although in description cellular phone has been illustrated as an example of communication device, other forms of communication device such as PDA, pager, landline phone, personal computer and other GPS enabled devices should also be considered inclusive; 3) In addition to task list being textual, it can also be in image, audio and video formats. The above list is for illustration purposes only and should in no way be considered all inclusive or limiting.
Claims
1. A method for providing location-based notifications using a mobile communication device equipped with an on-board GPS device and a remote server having access to a remote geo-code database, the remote geo-code database storing contact information linked to geographical locations such that each set of GPS coordinates corresponding to a respective geographical location is mapped to a set of contact information corresponding to the respective geographical location, the mobile device configured to be communicable to and from the remote server, the mobile device configured to store and display a reminder collection of one or more reminder entries, each said reminder entry configured to store a respect set of reminder information including a respective entity-representing text representing a respective entity corresponding to a respective geographical location, a respective set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the respective geographical location, and a respective reminder text denoting a respective task linked with the respective geographical location, each said reminder entry configured to have a respective set of user interfaces which, when selectively displayed on the mobile device, at least enable the user to view at least a subset of the respective set of reminder information of the respective reminder entry and enable to user to input data used to derive specific information subsequently stored as a subset of the respective set of reminder information of the respective reminder entry, the method comprising:
- the mobile device displaying a first user interface enabling the user to input a first input text so that the mobile device receives and subsequently stores the first input text as the respective reminder text of a first reminder entry of the reminder collection viewable through the respective set of user interfaces of the first reminder entry;
- the mobile device displaying a second user interface enabling the user to input a second input text intended by the user as identifying information calculated to be specific enough to be used to identify and locate the respective entity of the first reminder entry, the second user interface included in the respective set of user interfaces of the first reminder entry;
- the mobile device receiving the second input text and sending to the remote server the input second text;
- the mobile device receiving from the remote server a first set of geo-data including both a first location-representing text of a first entity corresponding to a first geographical location and a first set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the first geographical location, as a result of the remote server, upon receiving the second input text, retrieving from the remote geo-code database, based on the second input text, the first set of geo-data;
- the mobile device storing the received first location-representing text of the first geographical location and the received first set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the first geographical location as the respective location-representing text of the first reminder entry and the respective set of GPS coordinates of the first reminder entry, respectively; and
- the mobile device displaying an indication indicating a presence of the respective reminder text of the first reminder entry so as to remind of performing of the respective task denoted by the respective reminder text when a set of contemporaneous GPS coordinates of the mobile device corresponding to a contemporaneous geographical location of the mobile device, as captured by the on-board GPS device, correspond to the stored respective set of GPS coordinates of the first reminder entry.
Type: Application
Filed: Nov 6, 2018
Publication Date: Nov 19, 2020
Inventor: Nitesh Ratnakar (Wheeling, WV)
Application Number: 16/182,598