Situation-aware personal information management for a mobile device

摘要

A technique for providing a mobile device user with a “when to leave” alarm on his or her mobile device. The user has scheduled an appointment at a given time and location in the user's personal information manager (PIM) executing on the mobile device. A representative PIM is a calendar on the mobile device. The “when to leave” alarm is provided to the end user in the form of a display widget (or “countdown alarm”) that automatically activates a given time (e.g., 30 minutes) before a latest departure time for an event in the user's PIM.

主权项

1. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program, the program being executed by a computing device to perform a method to provide situation-awareness to a user of the computing device, the computing device having a display associated therewith, the method comprising:
for a given vehicle route having a starting location and an ending location, generating at least two departure options; predicting a carbon footprint value associated with travel along the given vehicle route at each of the two departure options; and displaying information associated with the predicted carbon footprint values to enable a user to make an informed decision with respect to the departure options.