Patent 10237696 was granted and assigned to Intel on March, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for location-based assistance includes maintaining in a personal digital assistant (PDA) (22, 24, 26) a data structure that is indicative of a state of a user (32, 34, 36) of the PDA. Responsively to the state, a map (30) is generated in the PDA indicating targets (42, 44, 46, 48) within an area of relevance surround a present location of the user. Based on the map, the PDA provides a suggestion to the user of an action to be taken by the user with respect to one or more of the targets.