SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TANGIBLE FEEDBACK ACCORDING TO A CONTEXT AND PERSONALITY STATE

• US 20090210476A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rondyo Limited
• Original Assignee: Rondyo Limited
• Inventors: Zohar, Doron, Levy, Joseph Arie, Frenkel, Doron
• Application Number:
  US12/033,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210476A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing

Abstract

A system and method for maintaining a personality and an associated state and further causing an apparatus to perform tangible actions according to a personality, a state and a context. Embodiments of the invention may compute a state of a personality and a context according to detected events and input obtained. A state may further be computed according to a maintained context. An apparatus may be commanded to perform actions reflecting a computed state and context. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a personality module capable of being executed on a computing device, said personality module when executed is to receive information and to further compute a personality state according to said information and according to a personality definition; and

an apparatus operatively connected to said computing device to perform at least one tangible action according to the personality state computed by said personality module.

2. The system of claim 1, further configured to transmit and receive a personality definition to and from a remote computing device respectively.

3. The system of claim 1, further configured to transmit and receive a personality state to and from a remote computing device respectively.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said personality module is further configured to select at least one personality definition according to an identification of a user operating said computing device.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a computer application capable of being executed on said computing device to produce an output according to said computed personality state.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a context module to compute a context parameter according to received information, wherein said personality module is further to compute said personality state according to a context parameter.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said context module is further configured to compute said context parameter according to information exchanged between said computing device and at least one other computing device.

8. The system of claim 6, further configured to transmit and receive said context parameter to and from a remote computing device respectively.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein said context module is further configured to determine a context according to information collected from at least one device selected from a group consisting of:

an audio sensing device, a light sensing device, a mechanical device, a pointing device, a keyboard, a heat sensing device, a pressure sensing device, a scent sensing device, a time measuring device, and a motion detection device.

10. The system of claim 6, further comprising a computer application capable of being executed on said computing device to produce an output according to said context parameter.

11. The system of claim 6, further comprising an event detection module to detect at least one event, wherein said context module is further configured to compute said context parameter based on said detected event.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a context module to compute a context parameter according to received information, and to further cause said apparatus to produce said at least one tangible action according to said context parameter.

13. The system of claim 1, further configured to receive a context parameter from a remote computing device, wherein said personality module is further to compute said personality state according to said received context parameter.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising an event detection module to detect at least one event, wherein said personality module is further to compute said personality state according to said detected event.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein said event detection module is further configured to receive information pertaining to an event from at least one application.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein said event detection module is further configured to receive information pertaining to events from at least one input device operatively connected to said computing device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said at least one input device is selected from the group consisting of:

an audio sensing device, a light sensing device, a mechanical device, a point and click device, a keyboard, a heat sensing device, a pressure sensing device, a scent sensing device, a time measuring device, and a motion detection device.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein said event detection module is further configured to detect at least one event associated with a remote computing device.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein said apparatus is further equipped with at least one input device selected from the group consisting of:

an audio sensing device, a light sensing device, a heat sensing device, a scent sensing device, a pressure sensing device, and a motion sensing device.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one tangible action is at least one tangible action selected from the group consisting of:

a mechanical motion, a visual effect, and an audible effect.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein said apparatus is further configured to communicate with said computing device over a wireless communication medium.

22. A method comprising:

receiving information at a computing device;

computing a state of a personality according to said information and according to a personality definition; and

performing based on said computed state of a personality at least one tangible action by an apparatus operatively connected to said computing device.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising transmitting and receiving a definition of said personality to and from a remote computing device respectively.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising transmitting and receiving a state of a personality to and from a remote computing device respectively.

25. The method of claim 22, further comprising selecting least one personality definition according to an identification of a user operating said computing device.

26. The method of claim 22, further comprising performing based on said computed personality state at least one tangible action by a computer application capable of being executed on said computing device.

27. The method of claim 22, further comprising computing a context parameter according to received information, and further computing a state of a personality according to said context parameter.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising computing said context parameter according to a communication between said computing device and at least one other computing device.

29. The method of claim 22, further comprising transmitting and receiving a context parameter to and from a remote computing device respectively.

30. The method of claim 27, further comprising determining said a context parameter according to information collected from at least one device selected from a group consisting of:

an audio sensing device, a light sensing device, a mechanical device, a pointing device, a keyboard, a heat sensing device, a pressure sensing device, a scent sensing device, a time measuring device, and a motion detection device.

31. The method of claim 27, further comprising producing an output according to said context parameter by a computer application.

32. The method of claim 27, further comprising detecting at least one event, and further comprising computing said context parameter based on said detected event.

33. The method of claim 27, further comprising performing said at least one tangible action according to said context parameter.

34. The method of claim 22, further comprising receiving a context parameter from a remote computing device, and further computing a state of a personality according to said received context parameter.

35. The method of claim 22, further comprising detecting at least one event, and wherein said computing said state of a personality is according to said at least one detected event.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein said detecting at least one event further comprises receiving information pertaining to an event from at least one application.

37. The method of claim 35, wherein said detecting at least one event further comprises receiving information pertaining to an event from at least one input device operatively connected to said computing device.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein said at least one input device is selected from the group consisting of:

an audio sensing device, a light sensing device, a mechanical device, a point and click device, a keyboard, a heat sensing device, a pressure sensing device, a scent sensing device, a time measuring device, and a motion detection device.

39. The method of claim 35, wherein said detecting at least one event further comprises detecting at least one event associated with a remote computing device.

40. The method of claim 22, wherein said at least one tangible action is selected from the group consisting of:

a mechanical motion, a visual effect, and an audible effect.