ALERT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF ALERT MANAGMENT THEREFOR

• US 20090254944A1
• Filed: 12/09/2005
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Reid, Angus E., Ribiere, Myriam, Charlton, Patricia M., Watson, Craig C.
• Application Number:
  US11/721,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

An alert management apparatus (100) comprises a presentation item data store (107) providing first description data associated with a plurality of presentation items, such as audio clips. The alert management apparatus (100) further comprises an alert data store (103) storing second description data associated with an alert, such as an alert for a content item. An association processor (109) is coupled to the presentation item data store (107) and the alert data store (103) and is arranged to select a presentation item of the plurality of presentation items for the alert in response to the first description data and the second description data. For example, a presentation item matching the genre, artist and or title of a content item of the alert may be selected. A presentation processor (111) then presents the selected presentation item to a user when the alert is activated. The invention may allow an automatic customisation of alert notifications.

Claims

1. An alert management apparatus comprising:

means for providing first description data associated with a plurality of presentation items;

means for providing second description data associated with an alert;

means for selecting a selected presentation item of the plurality of presentation items for the alert in response to the first description data and the second description data; and

means for presenting the selected presentation item to a user when the alert is activated.

2. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the alert is a content item alert.

3. The alert management apparatus claimed in claim 2 wherein the second description data comprises content description data associated with the content item.

4. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for selecting is operable to select the selected presentation item in response to a semantic meaning of the second description data.

5. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for selecting is operable to select the selected presentation item in response to a match between data of a field of the second description data and data of a field of the first description data associated with the selected presentation item.

6. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for selecting is operable to select the selected presentation item in response to a match between a categorisation of the alert and a categorisation of the selected presentation item.

7. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for selecting is operable to select the selected presentation item in response to a user profile.

8. The alert management apparatus claimed in claim 7 wherein the means for selecting is operable to select the selected presentation item in response to the user profile comprising a shared preference of the selected presentation item and an item associated with the alert.

9. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 further comprising means for determining concept data by concept extraction from text based second description data and wherein the means for selecting is operable to determine the selected presentation item in response to the concept data.

10. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for selecting is operable to select the selected presentation item in response to a user context.

11. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for selecting comprises:

means for identifying a subset of presentation items of the plurality of presentation items in response to the first description data and the second description data;

means for presenting an indication of the subset of presentation items to a user; and

means for selecting the selected presentation item from the subset of presentation items in response to a user input.

12. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first description data and the second description data comply with a same ontology.

13. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first description data complies with a first ontology and the second description data complies with a second ontology;

and the alert management apparatus further comprises means for translating between the first and the second ontology.

14. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a data store comprising the first description data and the plurality of presentation items.

15. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means for providing the first description data is operable to receive the first description data from a remote server and the apparatus further comprises means for accessing the remote server to receive the selected presentation item.

16. The alert management apparatus as of claim 1 further comprising means for generating a presentation item in response to a content item associated with the alert.

17. The alert management apparatus claimed in claim 16 wherein the means for generating the presentation item is operable to generate the presentation item by extracting a content sub-item from the content item.

18. The alert management apparatus of claim 1 wherein the presentation item is an audiovisual item.

19. A method of alert management comprising:

providing first description data associated with a plurality of presentation items;

providing second description data associated with an alert;

selecting a selected presentation item of the plurality of presentation items for the alert in response to the first description data and the second description data; and

presenting the selected presentation item to a user when the alert is activated.

20. (canceled)