WO2007131001A2 - Gestion d'informations relatives à l'emplacement - Google Patents

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WO2007131001A2
WO2007131001A2 PCT/US2007/067966 US2007067966W WO2007131001A2 WO 2007131001 A2 WO2007131001 A2 WO 2007131001A2 US 2007067966 W US2007067966 W US 2007067966W WO 2007131001 A2 WO2007131001 A2 WO 2007131001A2
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    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • location information as it pertains to business activity is looked upon as a consequence of said business activity (when looking at the yellow pages, search by business type first, then find the address and telephone number).
  • business B1 runs a restaurant a location L1
  • business B2 offers wi-fi connectivity at same Location L1
  • the information about L1 is going to be collected and managed separately and for different purposes by B1 and B2.
  • the "place" will be described differently, the street address expressed differently, the name of the business will be described differently (ex: McDonald's #123 vs. McDonald's Washington St vs. MacDonald's Restaurant)
  • location information is used as a semantic construction to describe where a physical place is (postal addressing standards historically derived from necessity to classify, organize and find places) but there is no generally adopted system to describe places which do not have a postal address, although any physical place on earth has a unique combination of latitude and longitude
  • a business activity as a set of attributes specific to an entity performing a business activity at a given location to enable management of location information in an advantageously new way.
  • FIG. 1 which illustrates a conventional product-location specific data collection method
  • entity 1 creates a record of location 1 because of instance of product 1 at location 1 called product-locationi .
  • product-locationi For example, McDonald's (entity) creates a record of a new restaurant (product) at 123 Main street in Oakland, CA (location), resulting in: McDonald's #3487, 123 North Main St, Oakland, CA.
  • entity 2 creates a product-location record 2 at the same location.
  • Wayport entity creates a record of a new wi-fi hotspot (product), resulting in MACDONALDS, 123 MAIN N, OAKLAND, CA (location).
  • the two locations are physically the same or at least they ought to be deemed identical for certain purposes. However, they may well be read as two different locations, e.g., location 1 and location 2, due to their different expressions of the same physical address. It is desired to have a system which puts the location object at the center of the model and system, rather than centralizing an entity or product associated with the location, or a combination of entity or product with the location.
  • a method for managing product-location specific is provided from multiple users at a centralized network hub. The information is transformed and the location data are harmonized to generate location- harmonized data. One or more attributes are attached to the location-harmonized data at least including product data to generate location-harmonized product-location specific data. The location-harmonized product-location specific data and/or content derived therefrom is distributed, and/or other content is distributed based based on the location- harmonized product-location specific data and/or on the location harmonized data, to the same or different users. One or more efficient customer access methods is/are also provided.
  • the location data may be harmonized by converting collected location information to latitude-longitude coordinates and/or geocoding, which may include converting collected location information to latitude-longitude coordinates and/or providing an electronic map and determining latitude-longitude coordinates of a specific location on the map indicated by a user.
  • the location data may also be harmonized by assigning a same location identifier to at least two location data corresponding to a same geographic location.
  • the location-harmonized product-location specific data and/or the location-harmonized data may be translated to one or more specific customer access formats, typologies and/or languages.
  • the one or more attributes may include vendor and/or time data.
  • the method may further include determining that a location of an on-line user is within a geographic region that is sufficiently proximate to the location corresponding to an instance of the location-harmonized product-location specific data.
  • the location-harmonized information may be visualized for the customer by providing a geographical map identifying locations of products.
  • the map may include an interactive component that permits a customer to retrieve product, vendor, time, and/or other attribute relating to a location identified on the map.
  • the location may include a specific point or an area on the map.
  • Activity relating to the handling of the product-location specific information and/or data generated therefrom may be compiled and reported. - A - BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • Figure 1 schematically illustrates a conventional location specific data collection method. Even though LOCATION 1 and LOCATION 2 are the same logical location, they are not harmonized and are managed separately.
  • Figure 2 schematically illustrates a product-location specific data collection method in accordance with a preferred embodiment.
  • Figure 3 schematically illustrates a conventional information sharing method among several business associates.
  • Figure 4 schematically illustrates an information sharing method in accordance with a preferred embodiment.
  • Accuracy and precision are objective measurements of the effectiveness of a location information management system.
  • accuracy does not equate relevance of the information, which is subjective and depends upon the entity and its purpose. If a location comes in as 123 Main street in Oakland, CA, it is accurate, but it may not be relevant if their was a typo in the original input and the actual address for the location in question is 213 Main street. 1020's system, by identifying the uniqueness of a location through the combination of multiple attributes, can offer the user "candidate" locations to chose from that match some of the criteria of the entered record.
  • the system will ask the user if this is the location described by the new record.
  • Figure 2 illustrates how entity 1 and entity 2 provide respective product-location specific information as product-location 1 and product-location 2.
  • the products are different, but the locations are really the same.
  • the location information is harmonized, as product 1 and product 2 are actually available at the same or similar location.
  • the locations could be broader, such as a certain neighborhood in Oakland, or Oakland, CA itself, or just California, or Alameda County.
  • Geocoding is currently performed by comparing an input address with a database of existing addresses (or more often street segments with building number boundaries) which have already been associated with latitude and longitude coordinates.
  • Current geographical information system software calculates the most probable coordinates for the input location by assuming distance from the end points based on the street number given in the input, unless they can use more detailed and complete datasets that already have exact geocode information for each building on a given street.
  • Geocode information is available in the United States, in part due to public and free datasets made available by the government, but this is not the case in other countries, where alternative methods such as the one described below can be used.
  • the system will additionally allow direct interaction with an electronic map, whereby the user can click on a precise point on the map at the "place" they know corresponds to the proper position of the location they want to geocode.
  • the system will calculate what latitude and longitude coordinates correspond to that "click” and assign those coordinates to the location in the database.
  • FIG 3 schematically illustrates a conventional information sharing method among several business associates, when entity 1 creates a new record about a new location 2 in the system, information about this location 2 is immediately available for other entities to use, either to attach their own product to, or to obtain information about entity 1 's business.
  • Entity 1 may be in business with five other entities 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Entity 1 provides its five partners with a list of its locations every week. Entity 1 therefore sends five lists of the same data to five different partners every week. If the four partners of entity 1 are also partners among themselves, and also send to all their partners a list of their locations every week, then we have the following location data flows. Entity 1 > Entity 2 Entity 3 > Entity 1 Entity 5 > Entity 1
  • Entity 1 Entity 3 Entity 3 > Entity 2 Entity 5 > Entity 2
  • Entity 1 Entity 4 Entity 3 > Entity 4 Entity 5 > Entity 3
  • Entity 1 Entity 5 Entity 3 > Entity 5 Entity 5 > Entity 4
  • Entity 1 Entity 6 Entity 3 > Entity 6 Entity 5 > Entity 6
  • Entity 2 Entity 1 Entity 4 > Entity 1 Entity 6 > Entity 1
  • Entity 2 Entity 3 Entity 4 > Entity 2 Entity 6 > Entity 2
  • Entity 2 Entity 4 Entity 4 > Entity 3 Entity 6 > Entity 3
  • Entity 2 Entity 5 Entity 4 > Entity 5 Entity 6 > Entity 4
  • Entity 2 Entity 6 Entity 4 > Entity 6 Entity 6 > Entity 5
  • Each entity P1 to P6 publishes to each of its partners, and subscribes to each of them as well, through the hub or 1020 exchange platform.
  • the hub serves as a data interface. Entities express their location and product location information in the format, typology and language that suits their business.
  • the hub adapts to the existing raw data coming in whatever format, type and language (vocabulary, spelling, grammar, syntax) and converts it into an unified format, typology and language. Conversely, the hub may translate back into customer language whatever data the customer obtains from the hub's central repository.
  • An access method interfaces may be provided for pushing and/or pulling data. Entities may wish to be sent updates from specific partners at certain times or based upon a quantity of added records. Alternately, they may wish to come get partner records from the repository. The hub configures these access methods for each customer.
  • the hub's location information repository is in constant state of accuracy and freshness.
  • This "product- location specific” information is configured along product types and product classes and results in attributes that accommodate the description of the specific product associated with the location.
  • Instances of a records input by users in the system may be recorded individually. Instances of that record failing a processing step test may be recorded as well. This facilitates auditing of the quality of the record. Instances of records output by users from the system may also be recorded individually.
  • Reports may be provided to the user by volume over time period (year, month, week, day). Reports may also be provided by the nature of the transaction with the system, e.g., upload, download, and/or process error. Reports may also be provided by user type by transaction, e.g., user's own upload and download of data, partner download of user data (partner is subscriber, and user is publisher), and/or user download of partner data (partner is publisher, and user is subscriber).
  • Location data in the system contains precise latitude and longitude for each location. It is therefore possible to represent all locations or any group of location based on any criteria on a geographical map. For example: show all coffee shops in San Francisco to the exclusion of coffee shops with the brand Starbucks.
  • the selection of criteria to display a map can be done via tabular data, as well as by interaction directly with the electronic map, for example by selecting a succession of points to trace a circle, ellipse or other curved planar surface and/or polygonal surface, or non-planar surface such as a 3D surface, or a polyhedron, and show all the locations within the boundaries of this figure, or only those meeting certain other criteria input by the user or programmed into the system.
  • Another feature of the system is the visualization of data changes over a time period.
  • the user can select location data to represent on the map at an initial time, then at intervals until an ending time, in order to create the effect of animation.
  • a location-based service includes distributing the location- harmonized product-location specific data to on-line customers or users (or both).
  • the data is provided in any of multiple formats and delivered using any of various technologies.
  • data is provided in an XML format using SOAP-based web services.
  • Another embodiment includes a location-based content communication system in which location-specific content (that is particularly relevant at or near a certain location) is communicated and delivered to a user.
  • the location-specific content is communicated only to one or more internet protocol-enabled (IP) devices that are accessible by wired and/or wireless access devices located at or near a certain location.
  • IP internet protocol-enabled

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Cette invention concerne un procédé de gestion d'informations spécifiques de l'emplacement d'un produit. Ces informations spécifiques de l'emplacement d'un produit sont recueillies auprès de multiples utilisateurs au niveau d'une plate-forme de réseau centralisée puis transformées en données harmonisées par emplacement comportant un ou plusieurs attributs associés comprenant des données relatives au produit. Les données spécifiques de l'emplacement du produit harmonisées par emplacement et/ou le contenu dérivé à partir de celles-ci sont distribués et/ou un autre contenu est distribué, sur la base des données spécifiques de l'emplacement du produit harmonisées par emplacement et/ou sur la base des données harmonisées par emplacement, aux mêmes utilisateurs ou à des utilisateurs différents. Cette invention concerne également un ou plusieurs procédés d'accès client efficaces.
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