Contextually-based automatic service offerings to users of machine system
First Claim
1. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
- (a) causing an automatically repeated collecting by an automated machine system of automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the machine system having one or more processors, where the automatically updated, collected first user state indicating signals are indicative of at least one of a recent or current state of a first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system, the recent state being one that corresponds to at least one of;
(a.1) a state that was present no more than one month before the current state;
(a.2) a state that was present within a context-dependent temporal range defined by at least one of a currently active profile of the first user and a communal consensus node currently being touched by the first user; and
(a.3) a state that was present within a temporal range defined by a current user setting, the communal consensus node being a system maintained linking node that links to system defined further resources in accordance with consensus of a community of users of the system and is touchable by way of direct or indirect access thereto by the first user;
(b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and of which subset of plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the one or more likely current or recent contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system within a memory of the machine system, the subset of the determined to be currently active profiles being a subset having two or more of a larger set of selectable profiles of the first user that are maintained by the automated machine system;
(b2) causing the determined likely current or recent contextual states and the determined currently active profiles to be automatically repeatedly used as a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next active profiles and/or of next likely current or recent contextual states such that one or more current cognitive states of the first user can be determined with improved resolution;
(c) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of one or more currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user and/or a currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format for presenting at least one of such servicings, tools, offerings or suggestions, said automatically repeated second determining being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are the currently active profiles of the first user for respective ones of the likely current or recent contextual states of the first user; and
(d) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of at least one of the servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user;
wherein said automatically repeated first determining of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user is based on a previous determining by the method of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
wherein said automatically repeated first determining of the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user is based on a current determination of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user, such that said feedback loop is formed; and
further wherein;
said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system are represented within the automated machine system as at least one of first points, nodes and sub-regions (first PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled context space defined within the memory of the machine system, wherein members of at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the context space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of second points, nodes and sub-regions (second PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled topic space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable topic definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the topic space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define context-associated members among the second PNOS'"'"'s;
the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of third points, nodes and sub-regions (third PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled additional space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable additional definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the additional space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s and/or of the second PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define topic-associated members and/or context-associated members among the third PNOS'"'"'s; and
the automatically repeatedly determined as likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user and the corresponding automatic providing thereof to the first user include at least one of;
(d.1) suggestions of topics and/or forums to be investigated by the first user, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, the suggested topics and/or forums being derived from at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system; and
(d.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, wherein identities of the suggested individual users or groups of users are derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system that can inform users of cross-correlations between currently focused-upon topic or other nodes in a corresponding topic or other data-objects organizing space maintained by the system and various social entities monitored by the system. More specifically, one of the cross-correlations may be as between the top N now-hottest topics being focused-upon by a first social entity and the amounts of focus ‘heat’ that other social entities (e.g., friends and family) are casting on the same topics (or other subregions of other cognitive attention receiving spaces) in a relevant time period.
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91 Claims
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1. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
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(a) causing an automatically repeated collecting by an automated machine system of automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the machine system having one or more processors, where the automatically updated, collected first user state indicating signals are indicative of at least one of a recent or current state of a first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system, the recent state being one that corresponds to at least one of;
(a.1) a state that was present no more than one month before the current state;
(a.2) a state that was present within a context-dependent temporal range defined by at least one of a currently active profile of the first user and a communal consensus node currently being touched by the first user; and
(a.3) a state that was present within a temporal range defined by a current user setting, the communal consensus node being a system maintained linking node that links to system defined further resources in accordance with consensus of a community of users of the system and is touchable by way of direct or indirect access thereto by the first user;(b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and of which subset of plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the one or more likely current or recent contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system within a memory of the machine system, the subset of the determined to be currently active profiles being a subset having two or more of a larger set of selectable profiles of the first user that are maintained by the automated machine system; (b2) causing the determined likely current or recent contextual states and the determined currently active profiles to be automatically repeatedly used as a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next active profiles and/or of next likely current or recent contextual states such that one or more current cognitive states of the first user can be determined with improved resolution; (c) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of one or more currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user and/or a currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format for presenting at least one of such servicings, tools, offerings or suggestions, said automatically repeated second determining being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are the currently active profiles of the first user for respective ones of the likely current or recent contextual states of the first user; and (d) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of at least one of the servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user; wherein said automatically repeated first determining of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user is based on a previous determining by the method of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user; wherein said automatically repeated first determining of the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user is based on a current determination of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user, such that said feedback loop is formed; and
further wherein;said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system are represented within the automated machine system as at least one of first points, nodes and sub-regions (first PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled context space defined within the memory of the machine system, wherein members of at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the context space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next; the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of second points, nodes and sub-regions (second PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled topic space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable topic definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the topic space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define context-associated members among the second PNOS'"'"'s;the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of third points, nodes and sub-regions (third PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled additional space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable additional definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the additional space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s and/or of the second PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define topic-associated members and/or context-associated members among the third PNOS'"'"'s; andthe automatically repeatedly determined as likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user and the corresponding automatic providing thereof to the first user include at least one of; (d.1) suggestions of topics and/or forums to be investigated by the first user, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, the suggested topics and/or forums being derived from at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system; and (d.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, wherein identities of the suggested individual users or groups of users are derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82)
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83. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
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(a) causing an automatically repeated collecting by an automated machine system of automatically updated first user state predicting signals for a corresponding first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system, the machine system having one or more processors and memory, where the automatically updated, collected first user state predicting signals are indicative of at least one of; (a.1) a planned future state of the first user and/or one or more planned future locations of the first user; (a.2) an expected future state of the first user based on recorded habits and/or routines of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the habits and/or routines, said recorded habits and/or routines of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the habits and/or routines being provided in one or more context-dependent first profiles of the first user; and (a.3) an expected future social dynamics state of the first user based on recorded likely social dynamics states of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the likely social dynamics states, said recorded likely social dynamics states of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the likely social dynamics states being provided in one or more context-dependent second profiles of the first user; (b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely future contextual states of the first user and of two or more likely to be active profiles in a machine-predicted future time period for the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state predicting signals, the determined likely future contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined within the memory of and maintained by the automated machine system and the determined likely to be active profiles being a subset of a larger set of more than two selectable profiles of the first user that are stored within the memory of and maintained by the automated machine system, the two or more likely to be active profiles including at least one of said context-dependent first and second profiles; (b2) causing the determined likely future contextual states and the determined likely to be active profiles to be automatically repeatedly used as a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next likely to be active profiles and/or of next likely future contextual states such that one or more likely future cognitive states of the first user can be determined with improved resolution; (c) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of one or more in the future likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user and/or in the future likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format for presenting at least one of such servicings, tools, offerings or suggestions based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely future contextual states of the first user and based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely to be active profiles in the machine-predicted future time period for the first user; and (d) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of at least one of the one or more in the future likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be in the future likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user; wherein said automatically repeated first determining of which subset of the two or more profiles of the first user are likely to be active profiles of the first user is based on a previous determining by the method of one or more likely future contextual states of the first user; wherein said automatically repeated first determining of the one or more likely future contextual states of the first user is based on a current determination of which two or more of the plural profiles of the first user are likely to be active profiles of the first user, such that said feedback loop is formed; and
further wherein the in the future likely welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions that are determined and presented to the first user include at least one of;(c.1) suggestions of topics and/or forums to be investigated by the first user in predetermined future time periods, the topics and/or forums being derived from a communally-controlled topic space maintained within the memory of and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system; (c.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with in predetermined future time periods, identities of said individual users or groups of users being derived from a communally-controlled cognitions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system, the cognitions-representing space being defined in the memory of the machine system and having at least one of respective points, nodes and sub-regions (respective PNOS'"'"'s), where the cognitions-representing space can be one of said communally-controlled topic space or another communally-controlled space maintained within the memory of the automated machine system; (c.3) suggestions of events the first user may desire to participate in predetermined future time periods, identities of said events being derived from the communally-controlled cognitions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system; (c.4) information about predicted contextual states and/or predicted focused-upon topics of other users of the machine system, the predicted contextual states and/or predicted focused-upon topics being derived from a communally-controlled hybrid topic-context space maintained within the memory of and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system; (c.5) information about promotional goods and/or services planned or predicted to become available in predetermined future time periods; and (c.6) an associated person or associated group investigating tool to be used in predetermined future time periods. - View Dependent Claims (84, 85)
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86. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
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(a) causing an automatically repeated collecting of automatically updated first user state indicating signals by an automated machine system, the machine system having one or more processors and a memory, where the collected first user state indicating signals are indicative of at least a current state of a first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system; (b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely current contextual states of the first user based on the automatically repeatedly collected and updated first user state indicating signals, the determined likely current contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined within a communally-controlled contextual states representing space maintained within the memory of and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system and the set of selectable contextual states being distinct from a set of more than two different and selectable user profiles further maintained within the memory of and by the automated machine system; (b2) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of which at least two of the more than two different and selectable user profiles are currently active profiles based on said first determining by the automated machine system of the one or more likely current contextual states of the first user and using the currently active profiles to select next one or more likely current contextual states of the first user thus defining a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next likely to be active profiles and/or of next likely further contextual states such that one or more likely future cognitive states of the first user can be determined with progressively improving resolution; (c) causing an automatically repeated third determining by the automated machine system of one or more currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely current contextual states of the first user; (d) causing an automated providing to the first user of the at least one of the automatically determined to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions; and
further wherein the caused automated providing provides at least one of;(c.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with, identities of said individual users or groups of users being derived from a communally-controlled cognitions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system; (c.2a) suggestions for the first user corresponding to tracking, following, or observing respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys of one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria, the respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys occurring within at least one of the communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces maintained within the memory of the automated machine system, identities of the touched or heat-cast upon forums and/or touched or heat-cast upon resources being derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces of the automated machine system, where touchings are due to focus by the other users or entities onto the corresponding points, nodes or subregions (PNOS'"'"'s) of the at least one of the communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces and heat castings are due to overlap of cast and respective system-defined halos of the respective other users or entities onto the corresponding PNOS'"'"'s; (c.2b) suggestions for the first user corresponding to following and/or joining in on forums, resources or events which have had heat cast on them or have been touched by the one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria; (c.2c) suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings on one or more of respective forums, nodes, cognitive subregions and resources; and (c.2d) suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings by one or more tracked entities. - View Dependent Claims (87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
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