METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION CLOSURES ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

• US 20120005050A1
• Filed: 07/02/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Boldyrev, Sergey, Grigoriev, Nikolai, Oliver, Ian Justin, Mannermaa, Mika Juhani, Lassila, Ora
• Granted Patent: US 8,401,934 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2457 with adaptation to user needs
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

An approach is provided for enabling the accounting of closures to support query requests established by a device. A computation processing and accounting infrastructure determines one or more closures based, at least in part, on a query request. One of the one or more closures based, at least in part, on one or more predetermined policies is selected to generate a response to the query.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a query from a device;

determining one or more closures based, at least in part, on the query, wherein the one or more closures are associated with at least one of an information space or a computation space;

determining to select at least one of the one or more closures based, at least in part, on one or more predetermined policies; and

determining to generate a response to the query based, at least in part, on the selected at least one of the one or more closures.

2. A method of claim 1, wherein the one or more predetermined policies include one or more accounting policies, the method further comprising:

determining the one or more accounting policies from a cost infrastructure based, at least in part, on the query; and

determining to generate respective valuations for the one or more closures based, at least in part, on the one or more accounting policies,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the respective valuations.

3. A method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining whether the respective valuations exceed a cost threshold,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to the cost threshold.

4. A method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining to store the respective valuations of the one or more closures;

determining whether one or more subsequent queries relate to one or more closures; and

determining to prioritize generation of respective responses to the one or more subsequent queries based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to whether the one or more subsequent queries are related to the one or more closures.

5. A method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining respective applications corresponding to the query and the one or more subsequent queries; and

determining to associate the respective applications as a class based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to whether the one or more subsequent queries are related to the one or more closures.

6. A method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the one or more closures are provided by one or more external providers,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to the external provider.

7. A method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a cost associated with the determining of whether the one or more closures are provided by the one or more external providers,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures, the determining of whether the one or more closures are provided by the one or more external providers, or a combination thereof are based, at least in part, on the cost.

8. A method of claim 2, wherein the cost infrastructure is based, at least in part, on a type of user associated with the device, a type of the one or more closures, a cost associated with the one or more closures, an availability of alternate sources of the one or more closures, or a combination thereof.

9. A method of claim 1, wherein the policies are based, at least in part, on a common ontology for the information space or the computation space, a lifetime value of a user associated with the device, or a combination thereof.

10. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,

receive a query from a device;

determine one or more closures based, at least in part, on the query, wherein the one or more closures are associated with at least one of an information space or a computation space;

determine to select at least one of the one or more closures based, at least in part, on one or more predetermined policies; and

determine to generate a response to the query based, at least in part, on the selected at least one of the one or more closures.

11. An apparatus of claim 10, wherein the one or more predetermined policies include one or more accounting policies, and wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine the one or more accounting policies from a cost infrastructure based, at least in part, on the query; and

determine to generate respective valuations for the one or more closures based, at least in part, on the one or more accounting policies,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the respective valuations.

12. An apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine whether the respective valuations exceed a cost threshold,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to the cost threshold.

13. An apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine to store the respective valuations of the one or more closures;

determine whether one or more subsequent queries relate to one or more closures; and

determine to prioritize generation of respective responses to the one or more subsequent queries based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to whether the one or more subsequent queries are related to the one or more closures.

14. An apparatus of claim 13, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine respective applications corresponding to the query and the one or more subsequent queries; and

determine to associate the respective applications as a class based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to whether the one or more subsequent queries are related to the one or more closures.

15. An apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine whether the one or more closures are provided by one or more external providers,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the determination with respect to the external provider.

16. An apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine a cost associated with the determining of whether the one or more closures are provided by the one or more external providers,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures, the determining of whether the one or more closures are provided by the one or more external providers, or a combination thereof are based, at least in part, on the cost.

17. An apparatus of claim 11, wherein the cost infrastructure is based, at least in part, on a type of user associated with the device, a type of the one or more closures, a cost associated with the one or more closures, an availability of alternate sources of the one or more closures, or a combination thereof.

18. An apparatus of claim 10, wherein the policies are based, at least in part, on a common ontology for the information space or the computation space, a lifetime value of a user associated with the device, or a combination thereof.

19. A computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:

receiving a query from a device;

determining one or more closures based, at least in part, on the query, wherein the one or more closures are associated with at least one of an information space or a computation space;

determining to select at least one of the one or more closures based, at least in part, on one or more predetermined policies; and

determining to generate a response to the query based, at least in part, on the selected at least one of the one or more closures.

20. A computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the one or more predetermined policies include one or more accounting policies, and wherein the apparatus is further caused to perform:

determining the one or more accounting policies from a cost infrastructure based, at least in part, on the query; and

determining to generate respective valuations for the one or more closures based, at least in part, on the one or more accounting policies,

wherein the selecting of the at least one of the one or more closures is based, at least in part, on the respective valuations.

21-42. -42. (canceled)