ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,983, issued on May 13.
"System and method for determining activities of a user based on location" was invented by Joseph Alan Epstein (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for influencing or forming a list of activities of a user from the location of the user. In one embodiment, a user is tracked with a GPS mobile tracker. The list of locations the user was present at is correlated with a known locations database to produce a list of user activities, with the type of activity designated by the name of the establishment at the location of the user. A further embodiment cross-references the establishmen...