| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 705323000 | Destination assistance within a business structure or complex | 12 |
| 20100106662 | Method and apparatus for in-store directions using visual or audio cues for current location determination - The present invention relates in general to in-store direction systems, and more specifically to a method and apparatus that determine the current physical location of a given shopper in the store using only visual or audio cues in the store; and then provide a path from the shopper's current location to an item the shopper is looking for, while taking into account commercial objectives of the store in addition to the convenience of the shopper. The apparatus as in this invention comprises just the shopper's mobile terminal and a backend system. This invention avoids the use of radio-frequency based location detectors within the store and hence avoids capital costs associated with those. The interaction between the mobile terminal and the shopper is carried out using one of a plurality of methods including application packets, SMS/MMS, or voice. Once the current location of the shopper and the location of the item to which the shopper wants to go to is determined, the path between the two is selected to include locations where items are being promoted or items that are related to the item the shopper is seeking are located. The path displayed on the mobile terminal is annotated with the location of such promoted and related items. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100262554 | In-store wireless shopping network using hand-held devices - An example system includes a display, a communication circuit, a memory storing a shopping program, and a processor in communication with the display, the communication circuit and the memory. The processor is configured to execute the shopping program to access a product database including product information, to process inputs supplied to the system to generate a shopping list comprising one or more products from the product database and to provide guidance information on the display relating to product location in a store of the products on the shopping list. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100280968 | Interactive Pedestrian Routing Method - The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access permission with respect to the variously ranked regions of a facility; the lower the personal rank, the fewer the regional ranks to which the person is permitted access. The “regional” ranking scheme ranks all accessible regions in terms of the degree of access permission with respect thereto by the variously ranked permitted persons; the higher the regional rank, the fewer the personal ranks that are permitted access to the region. According to typical inventive practice, a permitted person logs in to request directions, within the facility, from an original location to a destination location; the directions given (textual and/or graphical) are the optimal directions that are consistent with the personal rank of the requestor. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20120030129 | HOSPITAL GUIDE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOSPITAL GUIDE SERVICE - Disclosed herein are a hospital guide system for providing guide information to a user in real time through a user terminal in comprehensive consideration of user's position information and user's medical treatment related information and a method for providing a hospital guide service. A hospital guide system includes a user position detecting unit that detects user's position information; a process storing unit that stores user's process information related to a service received by a user in a hospital; a guide information generating unit that decides a user's position-process based situation on the basis of the user's position information and the user's process information and generates guide information suitable for the user's position-process based situation; and a user terminal that provides the guide information to the user. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120310852 | ESTABLISHING AN E-BADGE VIA MOBILE PRE-REGISTRATION FOR A VISITOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for establishing an e-badge via mobile pre-registration for a visitor management system is provided. The method includes receiving a pre-registration request for a future visit to a building, confirming the pre-registration request, and providing an e-badge to a guest mobile device for the future visit to the building. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20160012496 | Providing Navigation Functionality in a Retail Location Using Local Positioning Technology | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160042486 | LOGO-ENABLED INTERACTIVE MAP INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20180025461 | DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION | 01-25-2018 |
| 705324000 | Building evacuation | 4 |
| 20110161239 | PROVIDING EMERGENCY PLANS FOR A FACILITY - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating emergency plans for a facility are provided. In embodiments, an emergency plan is generated for a designated area of a facility. An alert is received that includes an alert type. The alert type is identified and a plurality of emergency plans associated with the alert type are provided. The plurality of emergency plans includes a primary emergency plan and an alternate emergency plan. A determination is made whether any factors that affect the primary emergency plan are present. If no factors that affect the primary emergency plan are present, the primary emergency plan is displayed to a user. If factors that affect the primary emergency plan are present, the alternate emergency plan is displayed to the user. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20150348220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING EVACUATIONS USING POSITIONING SYSTEMS - In a system and method for managing evacuations of buildings, in response to detection of a fire, a control panel initiates an alarm condition and activates annunciation devices to signal that an evacuation of the building is required. A positioning and evacuation system tracks locations of occupants in the building and the progression of the fire. The positioning and evacuation system generates individualized evacuation paths for the occupants, which are transmitted to and displayed on mobile computing devices of the occupants. Additionally, the positioning and evacuation system generates turn by turn directions of the individualized evacuation paths, which are displayed on three dimensional maps or with augmented reality on the mobile computing devices of the occupants. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160110833 | Occupancy Indicator - A count of the occupants of a building is generated at a date and time. As occupants enter the building, a database logs each occupant's entry. The database further logs the current location of each occupant within the building. If an emergency should ever occur, the database reveals an accurate count and listing of the current occupants and their individual locations within the building. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160127878 | Distributed Sensor Network - Distributed sensing is provided. A first node of a plurality of nodes receives a fire status message from a second node of the plurality of nodes. The fire status message indicates a determination by the second node that an environmental condition exceeds a predetermined threshold. Each node of the plurality of nodes is a computing device. The first node estimates an arrival time of a fire based, at least in part, on the fire status message and a geographic location of the second node. The arrival time is a time until the fire arrives at a predetermined geographic location. | 05-05-2016 |
