COLLECTING INTEREST DATA FROM CONVERSATIONS CONDUCTED ON A MOBILE DEVICE TO AUGMENT A USER PROFILE

• US 20090234796A1
• Filed: 03/17/2008
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: NIKOLAI, JASON A., HOLT, ROBERT D., CROPPER, JOSEPH W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,330,392 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Abstract

The present invention discloses a solution for collecting interest data from conversations conducted on a mobile device to augment a user profile. Such a solution can include an interest data coordinator and a user profile. The interest data coordinator can be configured to analyze conversations conducted upon a mobile device for interest data. The user profile can represent a compilation of user data and interest data.

Claims

1. A system for collecting interest data from conversations on a mobile device to augment a user profile comprising:

an interest data coordinator configured to analyze a conversation conducted upon a mobile device for interest data; and

a user profile configured to store a compilation of user data and interest data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the interest data coordinator further comprises:

a conversation collector configured to access at least one data input component of the mobile device to capture the conversation;

a conversation processor configured to extract interest data from the captured conversation; and

a profile augmenter configured to automatically update the user profile with the interest data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one data input component comprises a microphone and a user interface.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein an extraction of interest data by the conversation processor comprises an invocation of a location detector, wherein the location detector determines a locality of the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a group of data collection settings configured to control at least one parameter of the interest data coordinator.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the at least one parameter comprises a data collection frequency, a contact rating, and a location restriction.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the conversation processor is configured to utilize at least one of a speech processing system and a text processing system.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a profile server configured to communicate with the mobile device, wherein a communication comprises a transmission of the user profile.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is at least one of a mobile phone, a laptop computer, a personal data assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a portable gaming system, and a portable media device.

10. A method for collecting interest data from conversations on a mobile device to augment a user profile comprising:

identifying an initiation of a conversation on a mobile device;

analyzing the conversation for interest data; and

automatically augmenting a user profile with the collected interest data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the analyzing step further comprises:

invoking an interest data coordinator in response to the identifying step;

capturing the conversation; and

extracting interest data from the conversation.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the extracting step is influenced by a group of data collection settings, wherein the group of collection settings controls at least one parameter of the interest data coordinator.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one parameter comprises a data collection frequency, a contact rating, and a location restriction.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein further comprising:

transmitting the interest data to a remotely located profile server, which manages said user profile.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the mobile device is at least one of a mobile phone, a laptop computer, a personal data assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a portable gaming system, and a portable media device, and wherein said user profile is a user profile of a social networking system.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the analyzing step further comprises:

determining a location of the mobile device; and

optionally, ascertaining a place name associated with said location.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein said steps of claim 10 are steps performed by at least one machine in accordance with at least one computer program having a plurality of code sections that are executable by the at least one machine.

18. A mobile device that extracts interest data from conversations to augment a user profile comprising:

at least one data input component configured to acquire a conversation conducted on a mobile device; and

an interest data coordinator configured to extract interest data from semantic content of the conversation, wherein the interest data coordinator utilizes the interest data to automatically augment a user profile.

19. The mobile device of claim 18, further comprising:

a group of data collection settings, wherein the group of collection settings controls at least one parameter used by the interest data coordinator

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the at least one parameter comprises a data collection frequency, a contact rating, and a location restriction, and wherein said user profile is a profile of a social networking system.