Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as social networking, providing demographic information, tracking mobile devices, providing business information, providing an adaptable user interface, remotely effecting a change on a portable electronic device, providing a geofence, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to and from a mobile device, providing location-based alerts, verifying transactions and tailoring information to the behavior of a user.

Location-based services

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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method

A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit updates the paging network with global positioning information. A caller paging a subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit may request the global location of the remote receiving unit. The paging network could divulge or block such information from a caller depending on the requirements of the subscriber.

Location reporting satellite paging system with optional blocking of location reporting

A seamless solution transparently addresses the characteristics of nomadic systems, and enables existing network applications to run reliably in mobile environments. The solution extends the enterprise network, letting network managers provide mobile users with easy access to the same applications as stationary users without sacrificing reliability or centralized management. The solution combines advantages of existing wire-line network standards with emerging mobile standards to create a solution that works with existing network applications. A Mobility Management Server coupled to the mobile network maintains the state of each of any number of Mobile End Systems and handles the complex session management required to maintain persistent connections to the network and to other peer processes. If a Mobile End System becomes unreachable, suspends, or changes network address (e.g., due to roaming from one network interconnect to another), the Mobility Management Server maintains the connection to the associated peer task—allowing the Mobile End System to maintain a continuous connection even though it may temporarily lose contact with its network medium. In one example, Mobility Management Server communicates with Mobile End Systems using Remote Procedure Call and Internet Mobility Protocols.

Method and apparatus for providing mobile and other intermittent connectivity in a computing environment

Sensor data is generated for areas around a vehicle. Any objects detected in the sensor data are identified and a kinematic state for the object determined. The kinematic states for the detected objects are compared with the kinematic state of the vehicle. If it is likely that a collision will occur between the detected objects and the local vehicle, a warning is automatically generated to notify the vehicle operator of the impending collision. The sensor data and kinematic state of the vehicle can be transmitted to other vehicles so that the other vehicles are also notified of possible collision conditions.

Method and apparatus for transferring information between vehicles

The invention provides for conversion of latitude and longitude to an addressing scheme that supports current TCP/IP (v4) and future addressing (v6/ng) requirements. More specifically, it allows a decentralization of the unicast point to device on the hosted network. Geographical Internet Protocol (GeoIP) addressing will facilitate any cast routing schemes where the nearest node has a statically assigned GeoIP. Geo routing, and network management become a function of the GeoIP address.

Geospacial internet protocol addressing

A remote communications apparatus (10) such as a cell telephone is equipped with a satellite position system SPS receiver (26) to acquire location data. The location data is encoded using multiple audio frequency tone encoding (48) such as DTMF for transmission over the voice channel (70) of the telecommunications network (12), including cell CTSS (134) and the PSTN (138) to a call receiver apparatus (14) such as a public safety answering point (PSAP). Location data correction is effected using a fixed antenna (1402) receiving apparatus (1404) and related database (1412), in the network (210) or at the answering point (166) to improve location accuracy. The invention provides advantages of low cost of implmentation, improved location accuracy, and transparent signaling of location data so that simultaneous voice communication is uninterrupted.

System and method to communicate time stamped, 3-axis geo-position data within telecommunication networks

An inband signaling modem (28) communicates digital data (29) over a voice channel (34) of a wireless telecommunications network (12). An input receives digital data. An encoder (18) converts the digital data (29) into audio tones that synthesize frequency characteristics of human speech (22). The digital data (29) is also encoded to prevent voice encoding circuitry in the telecommunications network (12) from corrupting the synthesized audio tones representing the digital data (29). An output then outputs the synthesized audio tones to a voice channel (34) of a digital wireless telecommunications network (12).

In-band signaling for data communications over digital wireless telecommunications networks

A multiprocessor system used in a car, home, or office environment includes multiple processors that run different real-time applications A dynamic configuration system runs on the multiple processors and includes a device manager, configuration manager, and data manager The device manager automatically detects and adds new devices to the multiprocessor system, and the configuration manager automatically reconfigures which processors run the real-time applications The data manager identifies the type of data generated by the new devices and identifies which devices in the multiprocessor system are able to process the data

Dan A. Preston

Papers

Method and apparatus for transferring information between vehicles

Geospacial internet protocol addressing

System and method to communicate time stamped, 3-axis geo-position data within telecommunication networks

In-band signaling for data communications over digital wireless telecommunications networks

Method and apparatus for dynamic configuration of multiprocessor system