Patent ID: 9736781
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04M,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A mobile computing device, comprising: a primary processing unit to operate in at least a selected one of a normal mode and a reduced power mode that consumes less power than the normal mode; and a secondary processing unit, coupled with the primary processing unit, to provide, to a remote computing server, location data of the mobile computing device and descriptions of network resources, and to receive, from the remote computing server, one or more points of interest contained within a geofence, identified based on the provided location data and soft information obtained by the remote computing server from the network resources, wherein the network resources include one or more social network servers or one or more calendars used by a user, wherein said provide and receive are performed by the secondary processing unit on behalf of the primary processing unit while the primary processing unit is in the reduced power mode, and wherein operation of the secondary processing unit requires less power than operation of the primary processing unit in the normal mode; wherein the secondary processing unit is to further determine whether the received one or more points of interest satisfy one or more criteria of one or more policies that govern whether a point of interest contained within the geofence is to be presented to the user of the mobile computing device, and transition the primary processing unit from the reduced power mode to the normal mode to present the one or more points of interest that satisfy the one or more criteria of the one or more policies responsive to a determination that at least one or more of the received one or more points of interest satisfy at least one of the one or more criteria of at least one of the policies; wherein the one or more policies that govern whether a point of interest contained within the geofence is to be presented includes at least a policy that specifies intervals or non-distance circumstances under which points of interest are to be presented.