METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A CONTEXT AWARE MECHANISM IN AN INTEGRATED OR DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION

• US 20090157804A1
• Filed: 12/12/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: SHENFIELD, Michael, MARTIN-COCHER, Gaelle Christine, MCCOLGAN, Brian Edward Anthony
• Application Number:
  US12/333,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20090157804A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services

Abstract

A context aware platform including a context aware server, the context aware server including: aspects, the aspects being application level abstractions related to a context; policies associated with a context at a point in an application lifecycle, the policies specifying behavior or treatment of aspects; and rules and triggers providing a sequence of steps or logic required to compute aspects; and at least one client, said client being in an execution environment and communicating with said context aware server, wherein the context aware platform replaces aspects, triggers, or both aspects and triggers in the at least one client.

Claims

1. A context aware platform comprising:

a context aware server, the context aware server including;

aspects, said aspects being application level abstractions related to a context;

policies associated with a context at a point in an application lifecycle, said policies specifying behavior or treatment of aspects; and

rules and triggers providing a sequence of steps or logic for computing aspects; and

at least one client, said client including an execution environment and communicating with said context aware server,

wherein said context aware platform configures at least one of aspects and triggers in the at least one client.

2. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the client is a context aware client.

3. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the client is part of an interface.

4. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the client is embedded in a service.

5. The context aware platform of claim 2, wherein said context aware client is located on a user device.

6. The context aware platform of claim 2, wherein said context aware client is located on a server.

7. The context aware platform of claim 2, wherein the context aware client is adapted to interact with an application or enabler.

8. The context aware platform of claim 7, wherein interaction with the application or enabler facilitates modeling of behavior on said context aware client.

9. The context aware platform of claim 7, wherein the application or enabler is one of a mobile advertising service, a dynamic content delivery service, a network address book service, a network community service or a push-to-talk over cellular service.

10. The context aware platform of claim 2, wherein the context aware client is distributed between a user device and a server.

11. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the context relates to presence.

12. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the context relates to location.

13. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the context is generic.

14. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the context is a combination of two or more of a presence context, a location context and a generic context.

15. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the triggers consist of the rules.

16. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein the rules include at least one nested rule.

17. The context aware platform of claim 1, wherein at least one trigger of the triggers is configured to invoke at least one rule of the rules.