Method and system for using device states and user preferences to create user-friendly environments

• US 10,701,165 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2016
• Issued: 06/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sensoriant, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sensoriant, Inc.
• Inventors: Naqvi, Shamim A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mirza, Adnan M
• Application Number:
  US15/761,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20180288176A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0252 based on events or environment, e.g. weather or festivals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• 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: H04W 4/35 for the management of goods or merchandise
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A user device containing sensors is delivered customized services without utilizing private user data or while only using it in highly constrained ways. This is accomplished by sending one or more queries to the user device. Each query requests a binary response and each query inquires whether or not the user device has obtained one or more specified parameter values, or range of parameter values, from one or more sensors incorporated in or in communication with the user device. For each query a binary response is received, which indicates that the user device has or has not obtained the one or more specified parameter values, or the range of parameter values, about which the respective query is inquiring.

Claims

1. A method for delivering at least one service to a user device over one or more communications network, comprising:

sending to a user device one or more queries each requesting a binary response, each query inquiring whether or not the user device has obtained one or more specified parameter values, or range of parameter values, from one or more sensors incorporated in or in communication with the user device;

receiving, for each query a binary response indicating that the user device has or has not obtained the one or more specified parameter values, or the range of parameter values, about which the respective query is inquiring;

defining one or more user device states based on the queries and the binary responses thereto, each of the user device states being a function of the one or more of the specified parameter values, or the range of parameter values, that the user device has indicated as being obtained from the one or more sensors;

selecting a service to be delivered to a designated user device over the one or more communication networks based at least in part on the one or more user device states that have been defined; and

delivering the selected service to the designated user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein defining the one or more user device states includes defining a plurality of sequential user device states, a first and last of the user device states in the sequence following and preceding, respectively, a dormant device state in which there is no change in one or more specified parameters in the user device states for at least a prescribed amount of time, the plurality of sequential user device states between the dormant device states defining a journey.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting one of the plurality of sequential user device states in which the user device is to reside when the selected service is delivered.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected one of the sequential user device states is a user device state satisfying a metric indicating that a user of the user device is most likely to be responsive to the selected service when the user device is in the selected one of the sequential user device states.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the service to be delivered to the designated user device includes selecting a manner in which the selected service is to be delivered to the user device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the manner in which the service is to be delivered includes selecting a time and place at which the service is to be delivered to the user device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the designated user device is the user device from which the binary responses are received.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a binary response is not received in response to at least one of the queries that requests one or more specified parameter values, or the range of parameter values, a user of the user device has previously designated as being private.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein selecting the manner in which the selected service is to be delivered to the user device is based at least in part on a model constructed from the binary responses.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the query interrogates logic residing in the user device that aggregates sensor data from the one or more sensors to generate the parameter values or range of parameter values.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the designated user device is a user device that, when the selected service is to be delivered, is in a user device state that is within a specified distance in state space of the state in which resides the user device from which the binary responses are received.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the queries inquires whether or not a user of the user device has a specified preference, the binary response indicating that the user does or does not have the specified user preference.

13. A system for delivering at least one service to a user device over one or more communications network, comprising:

a response management module configured to send to a user device one or more queries each requesting a binary response, each query inquiring whether or not the user device has obtained one or more specified parameter values, or range of parameter values, from one or more sensors incorporated in or in communication with the user device, the response management module being further configured to receive, for each query a binary response indicating that the user device has or has not obtained the one or more specified parameter values, or the range of parameter values, about which the respective query is inquiring;

an analysis engine configured to define one or more user device states based on the queries and the binary responses thereto, each of the user device states being a function of the one or more of the specified parameter values, or the range of parameter values, that the user device has indicated as being obtained from the one or more sensors, the analysis engine being further configured to select a service to be delivered to a designated user device over the one or more communication networks based at least in part on the one or more user device states that have been defined; and

a delivery engine configured to deliver the selected service to the designated user device.