System and method for location based exchanges of data facilitating distributed locational applications

摘要

Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing systems (MSs) interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. Data is shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out novel Location Based eXchanges (LBX) of data for new mobile applications. Information which is transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, or is in process at, a mobile data processing system, is used to trigger processing of actions in accordance with user configured permissions, charters, and other configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a user configurable platform is provided for quickly building well behaving LBX applications at MSs and across a plurality of interoperating MSs.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
maintaining in local memory of a receiving mobile data processing system a location based configuration anticipating receiving a broadcast unidirectional wireless data record, the broadcast unidirectional wireless data record including:
a field containing web site identifying information for describing a web site associated with a beaconing data processing system, anda field containing a signal strength of the beaconing data processing system; receiving, in the receiving mobile data processing system, the broadcast unidirectional wireless data record directly from the beaconing data processing system in a wireless vicinity of the receiving mobile data processing system, the broadcast unidirectional wireless data record periodically beaconed by the beaconing data processing system for direct receipt by any of a plurality of receiving mobile data processing systems in a wireless vicinity of the beaconing data processing system; and processing, in the receiving mobile data processing system, the broadcast unidirectional wireless data record for operations including:
determining the web site identifying information for describing the web site associated with the beaconing data processing system wherein the identity web site identifying information is for an alert that the receiving mobile data processing system is in the wireless vicinity of the beaconing data processing system;determining location based data using the web site associated with the beaconing data processing system wherein the location based data is for use when the receiving mobile data processing system is in the wireless vicinity of the beaconing data processing system; andcommunicating the location based data to provide the alert that the receiving mobile data processing system is in the wireless vicinity of the beaconing data processing system.