Coordination of data received from one or more sources over one or more channels into a single context

• US 20150288631A1
• Filed: 06/16/2015
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 2, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: III Holdings 2, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Gershman, Greg, Miller, Michael J., Dardamanis, George
• Granted Patent: US 10,341,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/278 Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A middleware messaging system is connected between user devices and content providers possibly through one or more networks. The middleware messaging system includes a coordination manager for coordinating partial messages transmitted between the user devices and the content providers. Partial messages received by the middleware messaging system from one or more sources through one or more channels. Partial messages that are associated with each other comprise a single context and as such are coordinated and transmitted to one or more destinations through one or more channels.

Claims

1. A user device, comprising:

a receiver configured to;

receive first data from a user, and receive second data from an another device; and

a coordination manager configured to;

determine that the first data and the second data are to be coordinated with each other,

responsive to the determination that the first data and the second data are to be coordinated with each other, combine the first data with the second data to form combined data,

determine whether the combined data comprises all data to be coordinated, and

responsive to the determination that the combined data does not comprise the all data to be coordinated, determine to generate a request for additional data by detecting a data state associated with a need to request the additional data.

2. The user device of claim 1, wherein the coordination manager is further configured to coordinate the first data and the second data by combining the first data and the second data to form a request for service or a respond to the request.

3. The user device of claim 1, wherein the user device is configured to:

present the combined data to the user, responsive to a determination that the combined data comprises the all data to be coordinated, or

transmit the combined data to a service provider, responsive to a determination that the combined data comprises the all data to be coordinated.

4. The user device of claim 1, wherein the coordination manager is further configured to:

responsive to the determination that the combined data does not comprise the all data to be coordinated, store the combined data.

5. The user device of claim 1, wherein the coordination manager is further configured to:

responsive to the determination to generate the request, transmit the request for additional data; and

responsive to a determination to not generate the request, wait for additional data.

6. The user device of claim 1, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the first data via voice input from the user.

7. The user device of claim 1, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the second data in text form.

8. The user device of claim 1, wherein the second data is in extensible markup language (XML) format, and the wherein the coordinate manager is configured to determine that the first data and the second data are to be coordinated with each other based on an XML DTD associated with the first data and the second data.

9. The user device of claim 1, wherein the second data is location data derived from a GPS device.

10. The user device of claim 9, wherein the additional data is a user'"'"'s preference and the user'"'"'s preference is related to the user'"'"'s restaurant related preferences.

11. A method performed by a user device, comprising:

receiving first data from a user;

receiving second data from an another device;

determining that the first data and the second data are to be coordinated with each other;

responsive to the determination that the first data and the second data are to be

coordinated with each other, combining the first data with the second data to form a combined data;

determining that the combined data comprises all data to be coordinated; and

responsive to the determination that the combined data does not comprise the all data to be coordinated, determining to generate a request for additional data by detecting a data state associated with a need to request the additional data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

responsive to the determination that the combined data does not comprise the all data to be coordinated, storing the combined data.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

responsive to the determination to generate the request, transmitting the request for additional data; and

responsive to a determination not to generate the request, waiting for receiving additional data.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the second data is location data derived from a GPS device.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the second data is in extensible markup language (XML) format.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the first data and the second data to be coordinated with each other is data comprising parts of all the data that is needed to make a request for service.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the first data and the second data to be coordinated with each other is data comprising parts of all the data that is needed to respond to the request.

18. A user device, comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a request for data to a server, the request for data lacking information needed to service the request for data; and

a receiver configured to receive a combined data, responsive to a determination that all data to be coordinated is received,

wherein the determination that all data to be coordinated is received includes;

determining, at the server, whether the request for data lacks information needed to service the request for data, wherein the request for data includes data to be coordinated with other associated data,

coordinating, at the server, the data with the associated data in response to the request for data lacking information needed to service the request for data, the coordinating forming a combined data comprised of the data and the associated data, and

determining, at the server, whether all data to be coordinated is received.

19. The user device of claim 18, wherein the determination that all data to be coordinated is received further includes:

determining, at the server, whether to generate the request for additional data if all the data to be coordinated is not received,

transmitting, at the server, the request for additional data to at least one source in response to generating the request for additional data, and

waiting, at the server, for incoming the additional data.

20. The user device of claim 19, wherein the additional data is targeted content.

21. The user device of claim 18, wherein the data to be coordinated with the associated data is in the form of voice input and the associated data is in the form of text.