Traffic-Aware Notification (DEAL 295)

This lot is generally related to mobile notifications and predicting a future destination location of a person. Disclosed are techniques to provide future locations of a person or a celebrity through time and space, generate notifications when potential individuals path crosses and provide up-to date location information in real-time situation-aware data to users. Techniques are disclosed to display future location route about the user’s through time and space by storing the user’s calendar and contact information. The system receives calendar and location data to determine a future location route to be traveled by the user and generate a future location path between a departure time and an anticipated arrival time based on the calendar data. Also disclosed is an user interface for the user to identify a social network relationship to identify a path crossing opportunity with respect to the user’s future location path. Few techniques disclose an alert system for a mobile device user to generate “when to leave” alarm based on start time along selected route. The system uses the user’s personal information manager (PIM) to determine an appointment detail and generate an alert for the user in the form of a display widget by considering the location data, a fastest route from the current location to the destination location based on traffic conditions. The technology may be implemented in mobile APPs, navigation software, organizer software, calendar software, etc.