DYNAMIC CONTENT PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR SHARING BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES

• US 20100319052A1
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Ferren, Bran, Krishnamurthy, Lakshman
• Granted Patent: US 8,776,177 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A remote user persona is received at a computing device. The computing device includes a local user persona having a plurality of subsets relating to preferences of a user of the computing device. The remote user persona is synchronized with the local user persona at the computing device and, accordingly, the behavior of the computing device is adjusted.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a remote user persona at a computing device, the computing device having a local user persona having a plurality of subsets relating to preferences of a user of the computing device; and

synchronizing the remote user persona with the local user persona at the computing device and, accordingly, adjusting behavior of the computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the behavior comprises static behavior and dynamic behavior of the computing device, the dynamic behavior is adjusted according to a current user mode of second computing device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the current user mode comprises a work mode, a family mode, or a play mode.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the remote user persona comprises anonymously receiving the remote user persona from a remote computing system without having content identifying the remote computing device or its user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising back tracking the received remote user persona.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising verifying the remote user persona and the remote computing device for security before accepting the remote user persona at the computing device.

7. A system comprising a computing device having a storage medium and a processor coupled with the storage medium, the first processor to:

receiving a remote user persona at a computing device, the computing device having a local user persona having a plurality of subsets relating to preferences of a user of the computing device; and

synchronizing the remote user persona with the local user persona at the computing device and, accordingly, adjusting behavior of the computing device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the behavior comprises static behavior and dynamic behavior of the computing device, the dynamic behavior is adjusted according to a current user mode of second computing device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the current user mode comprises a work mode, a family mode, or a play mode.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein receiving the remote user persona comprises anonymously receiving the remote user persona from a remote computing system without having content identifying the remote computing device or its user.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor is further to back track the received remote user persona.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further to verify the remote user persona and the remote computing device for security before accepting the remote user persona at the computing device.

13. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:

receiving a remote user persona at a computing device, the computing device having a local user persona having a plurality of subsets relating to preferences of a user of the computing device; and

synchronizing the remote user persona with the local user persona at the computing device and, accordingly, adjusting behavior of the computing device.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the behavior comprises static behavior and dynamic behavior of the computing device, the dynamic behavior is adjusted according to a current user mode of second computing device.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the current user mode comprises a work mode, a family mode, or a play mode.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein receiving the remote user persona comprises anonymously receiving the remote user persona from a remote computing system without having content identifying the remote computing device or its user.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the instructions which, when executed, further cause the machine to back track the received remote user persona.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the processor is further to verify the remote user persona and the remote computing device for security before accepting the remote user persona at the computing device.

19. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:

generating a user persona at a first computer device, the user persona having a plurality of subsets relating to preferences of a user of the computer device, wherein one or more of the plurality of the subsets include content identifying the user;

anonymously transmitting the user persona to a second computing device without transmitting the one or more of the plurality of subsets having content identifying the user.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein anonymous transmitting is securely performed over a network.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the first computing device is coupled to the second computing device over the network.