Multi-level control, variable access, multi-user contextual intelligent communication platform

• US 10,412,210 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2018
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bernt Erik Bjontegard
• Original Assignee: Bernt Erik Bjontegard
• Inventors: Bjontegard, Bernt Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Shen, Qun
• Application Number:
  US15/899,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20180288213A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/216 using geographical information, e.g. location of the game device or player using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/217 using environment-related information, i.e. information generated otherwise than by the player, e.g. ambient temperature or humidity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/32 using local area network [LAN] connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/332 using wireless networks, e.g. cellular phone networks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/044 comprising hierarchical management structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 : WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices

Abstract

An interactive, electronic network that enables multi-level control, variable access, multi-user communications of real-time contextually relevant data or information among network-connected devices, and actions based on those communications, as the network-connected devices move from one location to another and/or the data/information flow among those devices change over time.

Claims

1. A multi-level control, variable access, multi-user computer-implemented system adapted for providing on a network, predictably useful, contextually intelligent information among network-connected devices comprising:

a first control level having a first control level user, first level network-connected devices and the first control level user adapted to control access to said system;

a second control level having N second control level users, where N is an integer, second level network-connected devices, access to the second control level being controlled by said first control level user and each of N second control level users having access to one or more of said second level network-connected devices;

a third control level having M third control level users, where M is an integer, and the third control level being controlled by said first control level user and at least one of M third control level users having access to at least one of said third level network-connected devices;

providing a first user mobile communication device;

associating said first user mobile communication device with a first user;

providing a server that is in communication with said first level network-connected devices;

providing a relationship management system that resides in said server and populating said relationship management system having historical demographic data for said first user;

providing sensor input data from at least one of said first level network-connected devices when said first user is in a first user current context;

said sensor input data including data corresponding to a current location of said first user mobile communication device and at least data corresponding to at least one member of the group consisting of;

current activity of said first user, mental state of said first user, physical state of said first user, mode of travel of said first user, direction of travel of said first user, speed of travel of said first user, level of engagement of said first user in said first user current context, surrounding environment of said first user in said first user current context, identity of one or more persons in addition to said first user and who are nearby said first user in said first user current context, identity of at least one mobile device other than said first user mobile communication device and that is nearby said first user mobile communication device in said first user current context;

providing said sensor input data from said first user mobile communication device to create acquired first user current data;

capturing, by said first user mobile communication device through an image recognition application, real-time image data to create first user captured real-time image data for said first user current context;

generating first user current contextual data for said first user from said acquired first user current data and from said first user captured real-time image data for said first user current context;

gathering said first user current contextual data to create said first user current contextual data corresponding to said first user'"'"'s current context;

uploading said first user current contextual data corresponding to said first user'"'"'s current context via a wide area mobile communication network to said server;

matching said first user current contextual data corresponding to said first user'"'"'s current context with said first user historical, demographic and environmental data;

combining and processing in the relationship management system the first user current contextual data, current environmental data and historical demographic data to define a message relevant to the first user while the first user is in the first user'"'"'s current context;

generating feedback data for said first user that is contextually relevant to said first user'"'"'s current context and that is predictably useful to said first user as said first user enters a new context to form first user useful feedback data; and

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transmitting to and displaying on said first user mobile communication device said first user useful feedback data to provide said contextually intelligent mobile information.

2. A multi-level control, variable access, multi-user communication system for communication of real-time contextually relevant information among network-connected devices when communication of information flowing among the network-connected devices changes, comprising:

multi network-connected devices;

one or more interactive, contextually intelligent computer software implemented electronic network communication applications, each network communication application configured to deliver real-time contextually relevant content to multiple application users, each application user associated with at least one of the multi network-connected devices;

the network communication applications and network-connected devices adapted to simultaneously gather and record real-time performance data for each application user when the application user is connected to the network;

each application user having access to one or more designated application levels and to one or more designated application types of access to the network application;

each network application further including;

a master user control;

x sub-level 1 controls;

where x is a positive integer;

y sub-level 2 controls, where y is a positive integer;

z sub-level 3 controls, where z is a positive integer;

each master user control adapted to control each of the x sub-level 1 controls, each of the y sub-level 2 controls, each of the z sub-level 3 controls, and including control of access to sub-level 1 users of the sub-level 1 controls, to sub-level 2 users of the sub-level 2 controls and to sub-level 3 users of the sub-level 3 controls;

each of the x sub-level 1 controls adapted to control each of the y sub-level 2 controls, each of the z sub-level 3 controls, and including control of access to users of the sub-level 2 controls and the sublevel 3 controls; and

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each of the y sub-level 2 controls adapted to control each of the z sub-level 3 controls and including control of access to users of the sub-level 3 controls;

the communication system further comprising;

a plurality of network-connected devices, at least one of said network-connected devices including a sensor in at least one of sub-level 1, sub-level 2 and sub-level 3, and at least one of said network-connected devices associated with one or more network-connected users;

at least one of said network-connected devices movable from a current context to a new context;

at least one network-connected server in communication with said network-connected devices;

a relationship management system residing in each of said servers and populated with historical demographic data for each of said network-connected users;

each of said sensors adapted to sense at least one condition in said current context, to generate current context data corresponding to said at least one condition and to input said current context data to each of said servers;

said conditions corresponding to at least one member of the group of conditions consisting of;

real-time image data corresponding to images of objects in one or more user'"'"'s current context;

current location of one or more of said network-connected devices;

current activity of one or more of said network-connected users;

mental state of one or more of said network-connected users;

physical state of one or more of said network-connected users;

mode of travel of one or more of said network-connected users;

direction of travel of one or more of said network-connected users;

speed of travel of one or more of said network-connected users;

level of engagement of one or more of said network-connected users in said current context;

surrounding environment of one or more of said network-connected users in said current context;

identity of one or more nearby persons in said current context;

identity of at least one additional; and

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nearby mobile device in said current context;

whereby the relationship management system is adapted to match said historical demographic data with said current context data for each of said one or more network-connected users, and to provide to each of the network-connected devices associated with each of the network-connected users predictably useful, contextually intelligent mobile information as each of the network-connected users enters a new context.