CONTEXT-ENRICHED MICROBLOG POSTING

• US 20100211868A1
• Filed: 04/29/2010
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Peters, Richard, Karmarkar, Amit
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,132 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• 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: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• 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 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• 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: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• 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 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture for context-enriched microblog posting. In one aspect, a message component is provided. A context data related to a context of a computing device used to generate the message component is provided. The message component and the context data are associated. The context data may be communicated to a web browser. The message component may be communicated to the web browser. The message component may be rendered in a format for communication as a short message service (SMS) message that includes a reference to the context data. The message component and the context data may be rendered in a format for communication as a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a message component;

providing a context data related to a context of a computing device used to generate the message component;

associating the message component and the context data in a microblog post;

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

communicating the context data to a web browser; and

communicating the message component to the web browser.

3. The method of claim 2, where in the context data comprises a geolocation data of the computing device used to generate the message component.

4. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

posting the message component as a user'"'"'s status update on a social networking website.

5. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

posting the message component in a hypertext format.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the context data is related to a meaning of the message component.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the message component comprises a portion of a text message.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the message component comprises a portion of a SMS message.

9. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

rendering the message component in a format for communication to a web browser with an HTTP protocol.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a context-data metadata tag.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

rendering the message component in a format for communication as a short message service (SMS) message that comprises a reference to the context data.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

rendering the message component and the context data in a format for communication as a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message.

13. A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions adapted to perform the method of claim 1.

14. A method comprising:

providing a short message;

providing a location data of a sending device of the short message;

associating the short message with the location data; and

rendering the short message and the location data into a format accessible by a web browser.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

posting the short message as a microblog post.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

rendering the short message and the location data into a format that launches a mashup application if a user-controlled pointer is passed over a component of the short message.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the location data is derived from a global position (GPS) data.

18. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

querying the sending device for a another location data that is current to the sending device'"'"'s location when the query is received by the sending device.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising:

rendering the other location data into a format accessible by a web browser.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the association of the short message with the location data comprises a hyperlink to a webpage comprising additional information regarding the location data.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the webpage comprising additional information regarding the location data comprises a web mapping service application.

22. A method comprising:

associating a short message with a location data of a sending device that generated the short message; and

rendering the short message and the location data into a format accessible by a web browser.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the short message comprises a short message service (SMS) message.

24. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

rendering the SMS message into a microblog post format.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the microblog post format comprises a reference to the location data.

26. A method comprising:

decoding a short message service (SMS) text;

parsing the SMS text;

determining a meaning of a SMS text term;

determining a context of a sending device related to the meaning of the SMS text term; and

linking the context data and the SMS text together in a web page document.

27. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

annotating the SMS text with a markup language;

annotating the context data with the markup language.