Information processing apparatus and method

• US 20020032875A1
• Filed: 07/13/2001
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: New Age Utilities, S.A.
• Original Assignee: New Age Utilities, S.A.
• Inventors: Kashani, Mehdi
• Granted Patent: US 7,032,115 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/325 Power saving in peripheral device

Abstract

An information processing apparatus and method consisting of the modules 1) peripheral control including power management resulting in increased battery life where a plurality of peripherals use a single power source to eliminate external power supplies, 2) universal conversion, an extensible system for taking any information as input and converting to any desired feasible output, 3) virtual user production, which creates a digital representation of a user through constant recording and analysis of completed work, which is disintegrated and stored in lists comprising tasks and related options. A list captures and represents the user'"'"'s preferences. Dynamic and evolving lists define a virtual user capable of repeating any previously recorded task. A corresponding Web based communication provider automatically feeds additional tasks and options to the invention, which can grow substantially unassisted by the user.

Claims

3-1. The method of claim 3 wherein said offering step further comprises all possible values for the at least one task component known to the at least one operational model.

11. A method of universal conversion of one format of communication to at least one other format of communication requiring at least two intermediary steps of conversion, said method comprising the steps of:

selecting a plurality of communication conversion tools, wherein each of said communication conversion tools has at least one input format and at least one output format;

networking said communication conversion tools together such that a conversion matrix is provided, wherein said conversion matrix connects like output formats to like input formats of said communication conversion tools;

generating at least one dynamic inter-lingua from said networking step;

inputting a communication format;

informing said network the communication format of said inputted communication format;

choosing an output communication format;

matching said input communication format to said output communication format via said at least one dynamically generated inter-lingua; and

outputting the chosen communication format.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein said input format is converted into at least two output formats utilizing at least two dynamically generated inter-lingua such that dynamically generated inter-lingua common to the at least two output formats are utilized only once in the conversion process to the at least two output formats.