Sending location-relevant data to a user device for predicted locations of interest

摘要

A network server determines locations of interest for the user of a user device based on analysis of one or more factors including analysis of one or more of: (i) details of contacts of the user, and (ii) event details in an electronic calendar of the user. The server determines location-relevant data for the determined locations of interest. Whilst the user device is connected to the network, the server automatically sends the determined location-relevant data over the network to the user device for storage therein, such that the cached location-relevant data is subsequently available at the user device when the user device is not connected to the network. Contact details may be used to access associated social networking data to identify locations of interest in which clusters of contacts may be based. The pre-fetched data may include details of local wireless access points (eg SSIDs, MAC addresses etc. of WiFi RTM hotspots) thereby saving power in the device by removing the need for it to continually search for them.