SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE LOCATION-DEPENDENT INFORMATION DURING AN OPTIMAL TIME PERIOD

摘要

Systems and methods to track locations of a mobile device as a function of time and extract routes traversed by the mobile device, frequencies of the routes, and travel time periods of the routes. The route information is organized as a route dictionary. In response to an indication of a recently completed route, the information of the recently completed route is used in the route dictionary to look up a most likely route for the next trip and the predicted time of the next trip. Location-based data items are selected based on the predicted route for the next trip, sorted based on closeness to the route and affinity to the user of the mobile device for transmission to the mobile device. Top selected data items are scheduled to be transmitted to the mobile device in a time window before the predicted time of the next trip to avoid distracting the user (e.g., from driving) while the user is on the trip.

主权项

1. A computing apparatus, comprising:
a portal configured to
receive location data from a mobile device, the location data identifying locations of the mobile device at a plurality of different time instances,extract from the location data routes traversed by the mobile device, andgenerate route words representing the routes, wherein each of the route words has an ordered list of location identifiers, each of the location identifiers representing a defined location; a data storage device configured to store the route words in a route dictionary, wherein for each respective route identified by a respective route word, the route dictionary stores at least a frequency of the mobile device traversing the respective route and a time period during which the mobile device traverses the respective route; wherein in response to the portal receiving an indication of a recently completed route of the mobile device, the portal is configured to
look up a plurality of route words from the route dictionary using at least one of:
a location identifier of a destination of the recently completed route, anda location identifier of the origin of the recently completed route; select a selected route word from the plurality of route words based at least in part on frequencies of the plurality of route words; determine ranks of a plurality of data items based at least in part on distances of locations of the data items to a route represented by the selected route word; select one or more selected data items based on the ranks; look up from the route dictionary a time period of the selected route word during which the mobile device traverses the route represented by the selected route word; and transmit the one or more selected data items to the mobile device a predetermined time period before a next trip of the mobile device traversing the route represented by the selected route word according to the time period of the selected route word.