CALCULATION OF HIGHER-ORDER DATA FROM CONTEXT DATA

• US 20100069103A1
• Filed: 10/15/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Amit, Karmarkar, Sharada
• Granted Patent: US 8,515,468 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: 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

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method and article of manufacture for calculation of higher-order data from context data are disclosed. An application program interface receives a set of context data in conjunction with a calculation module. A calculation module calculates a higher-order data using the set of context data. A signal-generation module embeds the higher-order data in a telecommunication signal. The calculation module may create a coordinate space for the set of context data. The calculation module may define a property of the coordinate space. The calculation module operates to define a function that describes a relation between each member of the set of context data.

Claims

1. A system for calculating a higher-order context data from a context data comprising:

an application program interface operative to receive a set of context data;

a calculation module operative to calculate a higher-order data using the set of context data; and

a signal-generation module operative to embed the higher-order data in a telecommunication signal.

2. The system of claim 1,

wherein the calculation module operates to create a coordinate space for analysis of the set of context data, and

wherein the calculation module operates to define a property of the coordinate space.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the calculation module operates to define a function that describes a relation between each member of the set of context data.

4. The system of claim 1,

wherein the calculation module operates to define a first coordinate space for a first context data type and a second coordinate space for a second context data type, and

wherein the calculation module operates to define an interspatial function that describes a relation between the first coordinate space and the second coordinate space.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the telecommunication signal comprises at least one of an (SMS) signal and a multimedia messaging service (MMS) signal.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the set of context data is received from at least one of a mobile device, data base and a server.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the contextual data comprises an information describing an environmental attribute of a mobile device.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement the method of claim 1.

7. A computerized method of embedding a supplemental information in a text message, comprising the steps of:

defining a space with a specified set of properties;

providing a function that relates a first contextual data represented within the space with a second contextual data represented within the space;

creating a supplemental information comprising the relationship between the first contextual data and the second contextual data; and

embedding the supplemental information into a text message.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

inputting a first contextual data value and a second contextual data value into the function.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

creating the supplemental information with an output of the function.

10. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

defining another space with another specified set of properties; and

providing another function that relates a third contextual data represented the other space with a fourth contextual data represented within the other space.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

combining the space and the other space to create a combined space.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

providing an additional function that relates the function and the other function within the combined space; and

creating the supplemental information using the additional function.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the environmental attribute comprises at least one of a context data derived from a pressure sensor, a temperature context data, a barometric pressure context data, a humidity context data, an accelerometer context data, a gyroscope context data, a global positioning system (GPS) context data and an ambient light context data.

15. The method of claim 14,

wherein the first contextual data variable comprises a GPS context data variable,

wherein the second contextual data variable comprises an accelerometer context data variable, and

wherein the function relates the GPS context data variable with the accelerometer context data variable.

17. An article of manufacture comprising:

a computer-readable medium having stored there on a data structure;

a first field containing data representing a mathematical space with a specified set of properties and attributes;

a second field containing data representing a function relating a first context data variable with a second context data variable;

a third field containing data representing the first context data; and

a fourth field containing data representing the second context data.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 17 further comprising:

a fifth field containing data representing a supplemental information capable of being embedded in a text message.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the fifth field is derived from the function of the second field using values of the third and fourth fields using a server.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 19 further comprising:

a sixth field containing data representing another mathematical space with another specified set of properties and attributes;

a seventh field containing data representing another function relating a third context data variable with a fourth context data variable;

a eighth field containing data representing the third context data;

a ninth field containing data representing the fourth context data; and

a tenth field containing data representing a function combining the mathematical space with the other mathematical space.