US 6,983,139 B2 | ||
Geographical web browser, methods, apparatus and systems | ||
Eric Morgan Dowling, 5107 5th Ave., Holmes Beach, Fla. 34217 (US); Duncan Leo MacFarlane, 6615 Desco Dr., Dallas, Tex. 75225 (US); and Mark Nicholas Anastasi, 405 Copperas Trail, Highland Village, Tex. 75077 (US) | ||
Filed on Sep. 10, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/937,286. | ||
Application 10/937286 is a continuation of application No. 10/294075, filed on Nov. 14, 2002, granted, now 6,873,850. | ||
Application 10/294075 is a continuation of application No. 09/195171, filed on Nov. 17, 1998, granted, now 6,522,875. | ||
Prior Publication US 2005/0032528 A1, Feb. 10, 2005 | ||
Int. Cl. H04M 11/04 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 455—414.2 | 102 Claims |
1. For use in a mobile data network environment comprising a packet switched data network, one or more network servers, a
plurality of broadcast domain entities that are respectively coupled via respective network connections to the packet switched
data network, and a plurality of mobile units, wherein each broadcast domain entity provides low power bi-directional wireless
local area network access connectivity in a respective local coverage area to provide service to local users who may be present
in the respective local coverage area and who carry respective ones of the mobile units, wherein a particular one of the mobile
units comprises a processor, a memory, a user interface, and an air interface comprising a wireless transmitter, a wireless
receiver, and a protocol stack adapted to process wireless local area network packet data transactions, wherein a particular
user operates the particular mobile, unit and wherein the particular mobile unit is in communication with a particular broadcast
domain entity when the particular mobile unit is located in a coverage area of the particular broadcast domain entity, a method
comprising:
receiving a user interest indication associated with the particular user, wherein the user interest indication identifies
one or more user preferences used to determine one or more types of content the user desires to receive via one or more unsolicited
pushed messages at the particular mobile unit;
receiving via the packet switched data network information associated with a wireless communication interaction between the
particular mobile unit and the particular broadcast domain entity, and based upon the information, associating the location
of the particular user with a geographical location associated with the particular broadcast domain entity;
causing a search to be performed over a plurality of sets of content to identify, if present, a resulting content that is
categorized according to the user interest indication and is associated with a point of presence located in a vicinity of
the particular local broadcast domain entity; and
causing information relating to the resulting content to be coupled via the packet switched data network to the particular
broadcast domain entity so that the particular broadcast domain entity can wirelessly transmit the one or more unsolicited
pushed messages using packet headers addressed to the particular mobile unit to automatically notify the particular mobile
unit about the resulting content without the need to continuously maintain an active client-server session between a network
server of the one or more network servers and the particular mobile unit between a first time when the user interest indication
is received and a second time when the particular mobile unit receives the one or more unsolicited pushed messages.
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