March 9th, 2007
Google Phone patent?
The rumored "Google Phone" could know exactly what you want before you even do — this patent filed in 2005 by Google may give us some hints as to what functionality might be present in the Google Phone. The main component of the patent application deals with predicting what the user wants based on time of day, location, and various other variables.
Mad4MobilePhones outlines a scenario that may be possible one day with the Google Phone:
"This patent is truly groundbreaking in what the application could do. Imagine that you are planning a night out in London. At 6pm Google could predict you are looking for a restaurant and, given your history of looking for directions to Chinese restaurants every week, would select an array of suitable places for you to eat.
At 9pm you would turn your phone on again and Google would know you wanted bars near the restaurant. At 11pm Google again predicts you need a list of local taxi firms."
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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