Providing treatment-indicative feedback dependent on putative content treatment

• US 20080320098A1
• Filed: 06/19/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Rinaldo, John D. JR., Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,984,133 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking

Abstract

A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment and causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment; and

causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

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16. A system comprising:

means for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment; and

means for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

18. The system of claim 16 in which the means for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

means for receiving an inability indication with the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

19. The system of claim 16 in which the means for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

means for receiving at least an apparent product of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment as the content type indication.

21. The system of claim 16 in which the means for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

means for including at least some hardware-type-dependent feedback in the provisional-update-responsive feedback.

23. The system of claim 16 in which the means for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

means for generating the provisional-update-responsive feedback as a function of time and of the content type indication.

25. The system of claim 16 in which the means for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

means for receiving the content type indication in one or more notifications of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

27. The system of claim 16 in which the means for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

means for detecting whether the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment includes one or more instances of content acceptance.

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31. A system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment; and

circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

32. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least formatting information as the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

33. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for receiving an inability indication with the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

34. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least an apparent product of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment as the content type indication.

35. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for receiving an expression of a range as the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

36. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for including at least some hardware-type-dependent feedback in the provisional-update-responsive feedback.

37. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for including a predictive expression in the provisional-update-responsive feedback.

38. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for generating the provisional-update-responsive feedback as a function of time and of the content type indication.

39. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for including at least some user-membership-dependent feedback in the provisional-update-responsive feedback.

40. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for receiving the content type indication in one or more notifications of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

41. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for detecting the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment from one or more event logs.

42. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for detecting whether the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment includes one or more instances of content acceptance.

43. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for deciding whether to use a first feedback component in response to whether the content type indication contains a first value; and

circuitry for deciding whether to use a second feedback component in response to whether the content type indication contains a second value.

44. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for receiving a feedback component in association with a data format indication.

45. The system of claim 31 in which the circuitry for causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment comprises:

circuitry for providing the provisional-update-responsive feedback partly in response to a control activation, partly in response to a provisional update, and partly in response to the content type indication.

46. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media configured to bear a device-detectable implementation of a method including at least

obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment; and

causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

47. The apparatus of claim 46 in which the one or more physical media comprise:

an antenna-containing semiconductor chip.

48. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media configured to transmit one or more instructions for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

50. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more of an image projection module or a touch screen.

51. The apparatus of claim 46 in which the one or more physical media include at least one of a repeater, a communication satellite, or another active module configured to accept first and second portions of the device-detectable implementation sequentially.

52. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform one or more of optical image scanning or auditory pattern scanning upon the device-detectable implementation.

53. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform linguistic pattern scanning upon the device-detectable implementation.

54. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

circuitry for using an encoding constraint in at least some of the device-detectable implementation.

55. The apparatus of claim 46 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media configured to bear at least one of a special-purpose instruction sequence, a special-purpose-circuit design, or an information-bearing static attribute as a portion of the device-detectable implementation.

56. The apparatus of claim 46 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media bearing an implementation access service operated to access a remote server running another implementation as a portion of the device-detectable implementation.

57. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a first portion of the one or more physical media transmits a portion of the device-detectable implementation before a remainder of the one or more physical media transmits a remainder of the device-detectable implementation.

58. The apparatus of claim 46 in which the one or more physical media include at least one of an integrated circuit, a data-holding element, a lens or other light-transmissive medium, a signal-bearing conduit currently bearing at least a portion of the device-detectable implementation, or a bus or other configuration of two or more transmission media in mutual isolation.

59. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

a power line operated to transmit content of the device-detectable implementation between at least two terminals.

60. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a first medium of the one or more physical media bears a first portion of the device-detectable implementation while a second medium of the one or more physical media bears a second portion of the device-detectable implementation.

61. The apparatus of claim 46 in which the one or more physical media are configured at least (a) by causing a communication channel in the one or more physical media to bear a first portion of the device-detectable implementation;

and (b) by causing another channel of the one or more physical media to bear a second portion of the device-detectable implementation.

63. The apparatus of claim 46 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more static markings indicative of the device-detectable implementation.

65. The apparatus of claim 46 further comprising at least one of a satellite dish or another signal-reflective element, a transducer, an antenna, or a receiver operated to receive the device-detectable implementation.

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66. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media bearing a device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of

obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment; and

causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system'"'"'s apparent content treatment.

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