TEXT MESSAGE INCLUDING A CONTEXTUAL ATTRIBUTE OF A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20100255865A1
• Filed: 06/18/2010
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amit Karmarkar
• Original Assignee: Amit Karmarkar
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Amit
• Application Number:
  US12/819,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20100255865A1
• 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 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• 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: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• 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 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of a text message including a contextual attribute of a mobile device. A context-enriched text message is prepared by a process that includes the step of providing a text-message component generated with a mobile device. A context data including information about a contextual attribute of the mobile device is provided. The text-message component and the context data are associated. The context data may be relevant to a meaning of the text-message component.

Claims

1. A method using the results of providing a text message generated by a mobile device;

identifying a message component of the text message;

determining a contextual attribute of the mobile device; and

, deriving a context data from the contextual attribute;

comprising;

generating a context-enriched message comprising the message component and the context data.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

communicating the context-enriched message to an element of a cellular network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the contextual attribute of the mobile device comprises a geolocation of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the text message is composed by a human user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the text message comprises a multimedia message service (MMS) message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the text message comprises a short message service (SMS) message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a smart phone.

8. A context-enriched text message prepared by a process comprising:

providing a text-message component generated with a mobile device;

providing a context data, wherein the context data comprises information about a contextual attribute of the mobile device;

associating the text-message component and the context data;

including the text-message component and the context data in a context-enriched text message.

9. The context-enriched text message prepared by the process of claim 8, wherein the context data is relevant to a meaning of the text-message component.

10. The context-enriched text message prepared by the process of claim 9 further comprising:

providing an instruction to a graphical user interface of a receiving mobile device to present the context data as a hyperlink embedded within the context-enriched text message.

11. The context-enriched text message prepared by the process of claim 9, wherein the hyperlink references a webpage with additional information about the context data.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a short message from a first mobile device;

processing the short message through at least one server, said processing further comprising;

parsing the short message;

generating the short message'"'"'s context data;

associating the context data with the short message; and

,

encoding the short message and the context data into a format transmittable through a communication network.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the communication network comprises a cellular network.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the communication network comprises an IP network.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the server comprises at least a cultural database comprising a database of prior short messages.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the database of prior short messages comprises a token and a first word structure pattern.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

comparing an indeterminate token in the short message against the token contained in the cultural database to find a best match.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

comparing a second word structure pattern of the short message against the first word structure pattern contained in the cultural database to find the best match.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising:

using the best match for the indeterminate token and second word structure pattern of the short message to establish a translation linkage between the short message and context data.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein a machine is caused to perform the method of claim 12 when a set of instructions in a form of a machine-readable medium is executed by the machine.