CONTEXT AWARE INPUT ENGINE

• US 20120304124A1
• Filed: 09/02/2011
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Liang, ALMOG, ITAI, KOO, HEESUNG, FONG, JEFFREY C.
• Application Number:
  US13/225,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20120304124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/825
• 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 3/04886 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 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

Context aware input engines are provided. Through the use of such engines, various input elements may be determined based on analyzing context. A variety of contexts may be analyzed in determining input elements. Contexts may include, for example, a communication recipient, a location, a previous user interaction, a computing device being utilized, or any combination thereof. Such contexts may be analyzed to advantageously provide an input element to a user. Input elements may include, for example, an onscreen keyboard of a certain layout, an onscreen keyboard of a certain language, a certain button, a voice recognition module, or text-selection options. One or more such input elements may be provided to the user based on analyzed context.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method, the method comprising:

analyzing a user interaction to associate an input element with a first context;

analyzing a second context to determine to provide the input element to a first user; and

providing the input element to the first user.

2. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the first context is equal to the second context.

3. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the user interaction was generated by the first user.

4. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the first context comprises the location of the user interaction.

5. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the first context comprises a communication recipient.

6. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the input element comprises a keyboard.

7. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the input element comprises a text-selection interface.

8. The one or more computer storage media of claim 7, wherein the text-selection interface comprises text from a dictionary, the dictionary being associated with the first context.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the first context comprises a communication recipient, the second context comprises the communication recipient, the input element comprises a communication.

10. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the user interaction comprises selecting the input element.

11. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the first context comprises the application providing for the user interaction.

12. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the input element comprises a voice recognition engine.

13. A computing device, comprising:

an input device for receiving input from a user;

one or more processors configured to execute a method for analyzing a first context to determine a first dictionary associated with the first context, analyzing the data obtained from the input device to select a first word from the first dictionary, and providing the first word to the user as a selection-option; and

a display device configured to present the first selection-option to the user.

14. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the input comprises a character.

15. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the first dictionary comprises tags associating one or more words with one or more contexts.

16. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the first word comprises a user-generated word, and wherein the first context comprises a communication recipient.

17. The computing device of claim 16, further comprising:

a memory device configured to store the user-generated word, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to associate the user-generated word with the communication recipient.

18. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine a second dictionary, analyze the input to select a second word from the second dictionary, and assign a first rank to the first word and a second rank to the second word.

19. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the one or more processors are configured to analyze a second context.

20. An input element presentation system including one or more computing devices having one or more processors and one or more computer storage media, the input element presentation system comprising:

a context identification component;

an association component for associating contexts with input elements;

an input element identification component for identifying input elements based on analyzing contexts; and

a presentation component for presenting input elements to a user.