MESSAGING SERVICE PLUS CONTEXT DATA

• US 20090215479A1
• Filed: 04/13/2009
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc., U Owe Me, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: KARMARKAR, AMIT VISHRAM
• Granted Patent: US 9,166,823 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

Messaging Service Plus Context Data. A message of a specified mobile device communications protocol is parsed. The message is analyzed to identify a message data. A signal associated with the message is evaluated to determine a context data. The context data provides a contextual attribute of the message. The message data is algorithmically associated with the context data. Further, the other message includes the message data and the context data. A context enhancement data is determined to enrich a meaning of the context data. The context enhancement data is acquired from a database. The other message may be generated. The other message includes the message data, the context data and context enhancement data.

Claims

1. A method of a messaging service server comprising:

parsing a message of a specified mobile device communications protocol;

analyzing the message to identify a message data;

evaluating a signal associated with the message to determine a context data providing a contextual attribute of the message;

algorithmically associating the message data with the context data; and

generating an other message comprising the message data and the context data.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a context enhancement data to enrich a meaning of the context data;

acquiring the context enhancement data from a database.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

generating the other message comprising the message data, the context data and context enhancement data.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

rendering the other message to enable at least one of the context data and the context enhancement data to enhance the meaning of the message data with a user interface.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a graphical user interface device, an audio interface device and a haptic interface device.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

evaluating the message to determine at least one of a global positioning system context data, an image context data, an audio context data, a video context data, a bar code context data, a radio frequency-identification context data, a compass sensor context data, a gyroscope context data, a wireless network context data, an accelerometer context data, a contacts list context data and a biometric context data.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

algorithmically associating the text data with at least one of the global positioning system context data, the image context data, the audio context data, the video context data, the bar code context data, the radio frequency-identification context data, the compass sensor context data, the gyroscope context data, the wireless network context data, the accelerometer context data, the contacts list context data and the biometric context data; and

generating the other message to correlate the text data with at least one of the global positioning system context data, the image context data, the audio context data, the video context data, the bar code context data, the radio frequency-identification context data, the compass sensor context data, the gyroscope context data, the wireless network context data, the accelerometer context data, the contacts list context data and the biometric context data.

8. The method of claim 7,

wherein the context enhancement data is acquired from a source other than a mobile device that originated the message data, and

wherein the context enhancement data comprises at least one of a social network context data, a data retrieved from a third-party database and referent to an other message context data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the context data describes at least one of an environment condition, a virtual condition and a physical event associated with the mobile device that originated the message data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the message data comprises at least one of a text data of an short messaging system and a media data of a multimedia messaging service.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the context data is algorithmically acquired by at least one of a global positioning device, a digital camera, a digital recorder, a radio frequency-identification receiver, a wireless network receiver, an accelerometer and a gyroscope.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

manually specifying the message data.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein a machine is caused to perform the method of claim 1 when a set of instructions in a form of a machine-readable medium is executed by the machine.

14. A system comprising:

a communications server;

a parser module of the communications server to parse a message of a specified communications protocol;

a text analysis module to analyze the message to identify a message data;

a side-band signal module to evaluate a signal associated with the message to determine a context data providing a contextual attribute of the message;

a context enhancement module to determine a context enhancement data to enrich a meaning of the context data and to acquire the context enhancement data from a database;

a collation module to associate the message data with the context data; and

a message module to generate an other message comprising the message data, the context data and the context enhancement data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the side-band signal module processes the context data to enable a presentation of the context data with a user interface.

16. The system of claim 15,

wherein the message module modifies the message to render the context data and the context enhancement data with the user interface;

and

wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a graphical user interface device, an audio interface device and a haptic interface device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the context data comprises at least one of a global positioning system context data, an image context data, an audio context data, a video context data, a bar code context data, a radio frequency-identification context data, a compass sensor context data, a gyroscope context data, a wireless network context data, an accelerometer context data, a contacts list context data and a biometric context data.

18. The system of claim 17:

further comprising a feedback module to determine a manually specified text of the message, and to identify a clarifying context data related to the manually specified text, and to update the message to correlate the manually specified text with the clarifying context data, and

wherein the message data comprises at least one of a short messaging service message and a multimedia messaging service message.

19. A method of a communications server comprising:

identifying a component μ

of a signal λ

of a specified mobile device communications protocol wherein the component μ

comprises a message data;

determining a component π

of a signal β

associated with the signal λ

wherein the component π

comprises a context data of a contextual attribute of the signal λ

;

rendering the component π

in a specified state to enhance the meaning of the component μ

; and

generating a signal γ

to comprise the component π and

the component μ

.

further comprising acquiring a component α

from at least one of an Internet and a third-party database;

rendering the component π

in the specified state to enhance the meaning of the component μ

; and

generating a signal γ

to comprise the component π and

the component π and

the component α

.

20. The method of claim 19:

wherein the signal β

comprises a sideband signal of the signal λ

,

wherein signal λ

comprises at least one of a short message service message signal and a multimedia messaging service message signal, and

wherein the component π

comprises at least one of a global positioning system context data, an image context data, an audio context data, a video context data, a bar code context data, a radio frequency-identification context data, a compass sensor context data, a gyroscope context data, a wireless network context data, an accelerometer context data, a contacts list context data and a biometric context data.

21. The method of claim 20:

further comprising acquiring a component α

from at least one of an Internet and a third-party database;

rendering the component α

in the specified state to enhance the meaning of the component μ

; and

generating the signal γ

to comprise the component π

, the component μ and

the component α

.