Context sensitive media and information

• US 20070038670A1
• Filed: 08/09/2005
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dettori, Paolo, Nogima, Julio, Schilling, Augustine, Schaffa, Frank
• Granted Patent: US 8,548,963 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A system and method for making media content sensitive to a context, such that the media content carries information needed to automatically process the media content in a target environment which includes a context processing engine. The engine processes a first set of rules and methods for media content objects and compares the first set to a second set of rules and methods for media context to decide which methods are to be applied on the media object to process the media content in a target environment.

Claims

1. A system where media content is made sensitive to a context, such that the media content carries information needed to automatically process the media content in a target environment, comprising:

a context processing engine which processes a first set of rules and methods associated with a media content object and compares the first set of rules and methods to a second set of rules and methods applicable in a context to decide which rules and methods are to be applied to process media content of the media content object in a target environment.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising an object association module employed to associate the media content object with one or more object rules or methods to create a context sensitive media object.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the methods in the media content are executable to permit processing of the media content in the target environment.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein a plurality of context environments receive the media content and each context environment includes a context processing engine.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising an interaction module which stores information on patterns for interaction between the media content and a context to resolve issues between the first set and the second set of rules and methods.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the context processing engine includes a plurality of processing plug-ins, which add or remove processing capability as needed.

7. A system where media content is sensitive to context, comprising:

an object association module which associates a media content object with one or more object rules to create a context sensitive media object; and

a context processing engine, which receives the context sensitive media object and compares the one or more object rules to context rules to decide methods to be applied on or to the context sensitive media object to adapt the context sensitive media object to a target context.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the object association module associates methods with the context sensitive object.

9. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the methods are executable by the context sensitive object to permit a conversion to a target context environment.

10. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein a F plurality of context environments receive the object and each context environment includes a context processing engine.

11. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the context rules are applied to context processing engine and the context rules include a set of rules and methods for an associated context.

12. The system as recited in claim 7, further comprising an interaction module which stores information on patterns for interaction between media content and context, the information based on content and context rules and methods.

13. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the object association module associates one or more object methods with the context sensitive media object.

14. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the context sensitive media object includes information needed to automatically be processed by the target context.

15. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the context processing engine includes a plurality of processing plug-ins, which add or remove processing capability as needed.

16. A method for processing a context sensitive media object in a target context, comprising the steps of:

determining if an object is context sensitive;

if the object is context sensitive, comparing one or more rules and one or more methods associated with the object with one or more rules and one or more methods related to a target context; and

deciding which method or methods to execute based on the comparing such that the object can be processed in the target context.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, further comprising the step of adding the method or methods to execute to a workflow of a processing engine.

18. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein the step of deciding includes deciding based on interaction patterns to assign priorities and processing orders for the rules and methods.

19. The method as recited in claim 16, further comprising the step of binding an object with context sensitive information to create a context sensitive object.

20. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the method steps as recited in claim 16.

21. A method for making a media object context sensitive for processing in a plurality of contexts, comprising the steps of:

providing a media object;

enhancing the media object with a first set of object rules and methods for processing media content in one or more contexts to create a context sensitive media object such that upon entering one or more target environments the first set of object rules and a set of context rules and methods are considered to determine how to process the context sensitive media object in the one or more target environments.

22. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the step of enhancing includes binding context sensitive information to the media object to create the context specific media object.

23. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the step of binding includes employing an object association module.

24. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the step of binding includes pre-pending binary information to the media object.

25. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the step of binding includes packaging the media object and the context sensitive information together in an archive.

26. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the step of binding includes distributing the context specific information through a separate logical path from the media object and referencing the context specific information with the media object using a reference to the media object.

27. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the method steps as recited in claim 21.