DISTRIBUTION OF LOCATION AND MOVEMENT INFORMATION OF MEETING PARTICIPANTS

摘要

Location information of each participant in a carpool or other event may be automatically collected at a central server. The location information may be collected based on an ascertained location of a mobile computing device carried by a participant. The location of each participant's mobile computing device may be obtained through the use of location based services. Each participant's device may push geographic location, speed, and/or movement type information (such as whether the participant is walking or driving) to a central system. The pushed data may then be pulled from the central system by the devices of other interested participants. Methods, computer readable media, and devices are provided.

主权项

1. A method for dynamically distributing location information between carpool participants comprising:
ascertaining a location of different mobile computing devices of different carpool participants at a predetermined time with respect to a scheduled carpool time; calculating a speed of each respective carpool participant based on a measured change in location of their mobile computing device over a known time period; classifying the calculated speed of each respective carpool participant relative to a stationary, a walking, or a driving speed; calculating an expected arrival time of each respective carpool participant at their scheduled carpool meeting location based on their classified speed and a distance between their ascertained location and their scheduled carpool meeting location; comparing the expected arrival time of each respective carpool participant to their scheduled arrival time; and transmitting over a communications network to at least one computing device a scheduled arrival time update based on the comparing.