ENHANCED USER INFORMATION FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS

• US 20080244005A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Sengupta, Uttam, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Garcia, Eric
• Application Number:
  US11/693,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Techniques involving messaging applications are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a presence determination module and a publication module. The presence determination module may infer one or more presence indicators regarding a user. These inference(s) may be based on sensor data. In addition, these inference(s) may be based on position information, and device activity data. The publication module publishes the one or more presence indicators to a messaging server. These presence indicator(s) may indicate an activity and/or a location context of the user.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a presence determination module to infer one or more presence indicators of a user based at least on sensor data received from one or more sensors; and

a publication module to publish the one or more presence indicators to a messaging server;

wherein the one or more presence indicators indicate an activity and/or a location context of the user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a position determination module to identify a current position of the user;

wherein the presence determination module is to infer the one or more presence indicators of the user based on at least data received from the one or more sensors and the current position.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the presence determination module is to select the one or more presence indicators from a plurality of predetermined activities and/or location contexts.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising a storage medium to store the plurality of predetermined activities and/or location contexts.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the plurality of predetermined activities and/or location contexts are provided by the user.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of predetermined activities is associated with one or more sensor data values.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the publication module is to publish the one or more indicators in accordance with one or more publishing rules.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a presence summary module to generate one or more presence statistics regarding a time interval;

wherein the publication module is to publish the one or more presence statistics.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an interface to receive sensor data from one or more sensors.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors include at least one wearable sensor.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors include at least one non-wearable sensor.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving sensor data from one or more sensors;

inferring one or more presence indicators of a user based at least on the received sensor data; and

publishing the one or more presence indicators to a messaging server;

wherein the one or more presence indicators indicate an activity and/or a location context of the user.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

storing a plurality of predetermined activities and/or location identifiers; and

selecting the one or more presence indicators from the plurality of predetermined activities and/or location identifiers.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising publishing the one or more presence indicators in accordance with one or more publishing rules.

15. An article comprising a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

receive sensor data from one or more sensors;

infer one or more presence indicators of a user based at least on the received sensor data; and

publish the one or more presence indicators to a messaging server;

wherein the one or more presence indicators indicate an activity and/or a location context of the user.