MANAGING ACTIVITY-CENTRIC ENVIRONMENTS VIA PROFILES
First Claim
1. A profile management system that facilitates managing user activity in an activity-centric computing environment comprising:
- an activity monitoring module that monitors activity conducted on one or more computing devices and collects data associated with such activity and the one or more devices; and
a profile generation component that generates profile data based at least in part upon the data collected whereby the profile data follows and stays with its user-owner and is applicable and extendible across devices, applications, and activity templates.
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Abstract
A unique system and method is provided that facilitates managing an activity centric environment via a master profile (which includes user, group, and device profiles). The master profile follows or stays with the user and can be applied universally across devices and activities (activity templates). When profile data does not currently exist (e.g., a new activity or a new device), portions of the existing profile data can be applied to such new activities or device as appropriate. Thus, current profile data for existing or known user interactions and devices can be inferentially extended to new user interactions and devices. When conflicts arise between applicable profile data, they can be solved by applying the profile data in accordance with their priority. User intervention can be requested whereby the system can adapt previous user-based resolutions to future conflicts. Profile data can also be scaled according to the context of the user-device-activity interaction.
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20 Claims
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1. A profile management system that facilitates managing user activity in an activity-centric computing environment comprising:
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an activity monitoring module that monitors activity conducted on one or more computing devices and collects data associated with such activity and the one or more devices; and a profile generation component that generates profile data based at least in part upon the data collected whereby the profile data follows and stays with its user-owner and is applicable and extendible across devices, applications, and activity templates. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A profile management system that makes selective use of profile data in order to facilitate an activity-centric computing environment comprising:
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an activity identification component that identifies a current activity desiring to access the profile data; an activity analysis component that determines whether the activity is at least one of user, group, and device oriented; and a profile data selection component retrieves the most relevant profile data and automatically implements it. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method that facilitates managing user activity in an activity-centric computing environment comprising:
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collecting data regarding user-activity-device interactions; processing at least a portion of the data collected to determine additional preference or policy settings; and generating a master profile comprising multiple types of profile data based on a user, the user'"'"'s devices, and activity templates used by the user, whereby the master profile follows the user across devices and activity templates and is extendible to at least one of new devices and new activity templates. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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