Patent ID: 8682363

Claim:
A system for providing a notification to a recipient associated with an impending arrival of a movable entity comprising: a location status module that determines a movable entity's location; an appointment module that determines a movable entity's estimated time to a destination, determines if the movable entity's estimated time to destination corresponds to a recipient-defined pre-arrival notification interval, in response to determining that the movable entity's estimated time to destination corresponds to the recipient-defined pre-arrival notification interval, causes an estimated arrival notification to be sent to the recipient; wherein the appointment module is further configured to: determine if the movable entity has arrived at the destination at an instant when the pre-arrival notification interval has lapsed since the pre-arrival notification was sent to the recipient; in response to determining that the movable entity has not arrived at the destination, determine an updated estimated time to the destination based on a new current location of the movable entity; and cause a subsequent pre-arrival notification to be sent to the recipient indicating the updated estimated time to destination in response to determining that the updated estimated time to destination exceeds a second pre-arrival notification interval.