HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING STATUS AWARENESS

• US 20120270575A1
• Filed: 07/02/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Ferren, Bran, Nachman, Lama, March, Wendy, Shah, Rahul, Raffa, Giuseppe, Del Pasqua, Kieran, Neumann, John Cross, Shahabdeen, Junaith A., Healey, Jennifer A., Subramanian, Sushmita, Essaian, Alexander, Huang, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 8,700,102 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/0065 having a beam-folding prism or mirror
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• CPC Class Codes: G03B 3/00 Focusing arrangements of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/40 by quorum, i.e. whereby two or more security principals are required
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/02 Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2207/1011 Aiming
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10811 Focalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3276 using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being read by the M-device
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4012 : Verifying personal identification numbers [PIN]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 : Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 : Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 : Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/165 : using facial parts and geometric relationships
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/19 : Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 : Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/45 : Detection of the body part being alive
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 : using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 : with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 : including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/239 : using two 2D image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular distance H04N13/243 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/243 : using three or more 2D image sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/45 : for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 : by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/67 : Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 : Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 : for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

Through status awareness, a handheld communications device may determine the location, activity, and/or physical or emotional state of the user. This information may in turn be used for various purposes, such as 1) determining how to alert the user of an incoming communication, 2) determining what format to use for communicating with the user, and 3) determining how to present the user'"'"'s status to another person'"'"'s communication device.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a handheld wireless communication device having a touchscreen, a processor, a memory, and a radio with a receiver and a transmitter, the device to;

receive an incoming communication through the radio; and

automatically select, based on status awareness, a format in which to present the communication to a user of the device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the selection is to be based at least in part on external priorities associated with the communication.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the selection is to be based at least in part on internal priorities associated with the communication.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the format is to comprise at least one technique selected from a list consisting of:

a) interactive text;

b) non-interactive text;

c) interactive voice;

d) non-interactive voice; and

e) graphics.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device is to convert the incoming communication from one format to another format.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device is to transmit to a sender of the incoming communication a notice that the incoming communication will not be accepted in its present format and that a different format would be accepted.

7. A method comprising:

receiving an incoming communication through a radio of a handheld communications device;

automatically selecting, based on status awareness, a format in which to present the communication to a user of the device; and

presenting the communication to the user in the selected format.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the format comprises at least one technique selected from a list consisting of:

a) interactive text;

b) non-interactive text;

c) interactive voice;

d) non-interactive voice; and

e) graphics.

9. The method of claim 7, comprising converting the incoming communication from a format of the received communication to a different format for presentation to the user.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein said selecting is based at least in part on an internal priority assigned to the communication.

11. The method of claim 7, comprising transmitting to a sender of the incoming communication a notice that communication should be in a different format.

12. An article comprising

a computer-readable storage medium that contains instructions, which when executed by one or more processors result in a device performing operations comprising:

receiving an incoming communication through a radio of a handheld communications device;

automatically selecting, based on status awareness, a format in which to present the communication to a user of the device; and

presenting the communication to the user in the selected format.

13. The article of claim 12, wherein the format comprises at least one technique selected from a list consisting of:

a) interactive text;

b) non-interactive text;

c) interactive voice;

d) non-interactive voice; and

e) graphics.

14. The article of claim 12, wherein the operations comprise converting the incoming communication from a format of the received communication to a different format for presentation to the user.

15. The article of claim 12, wherein the operation of selecting is based at least in part on an external priority assigned to the communication.

16. The article of claim 12, wherein the operations comprise transmitting to a sender of the incoming communication a notice that communication should be in a different format.