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Geographical web browser, methods, apparatus and systems
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Inventors: Dowling, Eric Morgan; MacFarlane, Duncan Leo; Anastasi, Mark Nicholas;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Appiah; Charles N.
Assistant Examiner: Contee; Joy
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Dowling; Eric M.
A geographical web browser allows a user to navigate a network application such as the Word Wide Web by physically navigating in geographical coordinates and roaming through coverage areas of cellular base stations, wireless LANs, microcells, and other such broadcast domains. A mobile unit communicates with a network server via an air interface that supports wireless packet data. A network server uses a set of user preferences to filter a set of server-side information in accordance with a user's interest and the user's present location. A content-selective information filter performs a network server-side search to identify content that matches the user's preferences and the user's location and selectively generates an unsolicited push message at a later time to notify the user of relevant results when the user enters a geographical area where the search is satisfied. In some embodiments, the push message is used to notify the user that information is available for download, and in other embodiments the push message provides the content directly to the user. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG.
1 is a block diagram representing an illustrative embodiment 100 of a system configuration used to support the present invention.
A vehicle 102 includes a mobile unit 105.
The mobile unit 105 may be designed similarly to the remote unit in the Dowling reference.
The architecture of the mobile unit 105 is also discussed in more detail in connection with FIG.
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The mobile unit 105 is connected to a first antenna 110 which is used to maintain a first network connection 112.
The first network connection 112 is preferably a wireless network connection and may be implemented in several ways.
For example the wireless network connection may employ an air interface and protocol stack to interface with an IPDN, a CDPD network, a wideband CDMA data network, or a virtual session oriented network.
The antenna 110 is operatively coupled to an air interface and switching module 115.
In many applications, the air interface and switching module 115 is provided by a telephone company which provides mobile communication services.
In the illustrative embodiment 100, the air interface and switching module 115 is coupled via a communications interface to a virtual session server 120.
The virtual session server 120 is discussed in more detail in the Dowling reference.
In other embodiments, the virtual session server 120 may be replaced with any available network technology used to provide a network connection to a mobile unit via an air interface.
The virtual session server 120 is preferably coupled to a network such as the Internet 122.
A network server 125 is coupled to the virtual session server 120.
The network server 125 may be co-located with and directly coupled to the virtual session server 120 as an application program 130, or may be coupled across a network such as the Internet 122 as shown in the illustrative embodiment 100.
That is, in any of the embodiments as discussed herein, the network server 125 may be optionally implemented as the application program 130
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