CONTINUOUS DYNAMIC BOUNDARIES

• US 20160086108A1
• Filed: 07/24/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daniel H. Abelow
• Original Assignee: Daniel H. Abelow
• Inventors: Abelow, Daniel H.
• Granted Patent: US 11,222,298 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

Among other things, we describe a reality alternative to our physical reality, named the Expandaverse, that includes multiple digital realities that may be continuously created, broadcast, accessed, and used interactively. In what we call an Alternate Reality Teleportal Machine (ARTPM), some elements of the digital reality(ies) can be implemented using and providing functions that include: devices, architectures, processing, sensors, translation, speech recognition, remote controls, subsidiary devices usage, virtual Teleportals on alternate devices, presence, shared planetary life spaces, constructed digital realities, reality replacements, filtered views, data retrieval in constructed views, alternate realities machine(s), multiple identities, directories, controlled boundaries, life space metrics, boundaries switching, property protection, publishing/broadcasting, digital events, events location/joining, revenues, utility(ies), infrastructure, services, devices management, business systems, applications, consistent customizable user interface, active knowledge, optimizations, alerts, reporting, dashboards, switching to “best”, marketing and sales systems, improvement systems, user chosen goals, user management, governances, digital freedom from dictatorships, photography, and entertainment.

Claims

1. A method comprising

using publicly available protocols with which any arbitrary system can comply to enable carriage on a publicly accessible network infrastructure of digital items that have been acquired using electronic systems at geographically separate acquisition places,

the digital items including at least two real-time live non-fictional representations of one or more people and at least one other item of audio, video, data, or application, content, the digital items including elements of a current presentation on the device.

through the publicly accessible network infrastructure, enabling selection, from among the digital items, of items for presentation to at least one recipient through an electronic device at a place other than at least one of the acquisition places, the selection being based on (a) at least one expressed interest or goal of the recipient, to whom the items will be presented, and (b) at least one variable boundary principle that depends on boundary preferences derived both from sources of the digital items and from the recipient, the variable boundary principle permitting at least one of the digital items to be used for presentation to the recipient and preventing at least one of the digital items from being used for presentation to the recipient,

the selected digital items not being limited by a theme or concept of game or of a third party,

dynamically and in real time blending at least two of the selected digital items into a dynamic construction to be presented on the electronic device, the dynamic construction including elements of a current presentation on the device,

the real-time blending including segmenting the real-time live non-fictional representations to obtain two or more of the digital items, obtaining information about sizes and other characteristics of at least two of the digital items, and combining into a scene the digital items obtained by segmenting, the scene including background and foreground parts of the scene, the combining being based at least in part on the sizes and other characteristics of the digital items,

in response to determining that the recipient is present at the electronic device, automatically and continuously presenting the dynamic construction on the electronic device, and

as the recipient interacts with the dynamic construction, causing changes in the makeup of the dynamic construction in response to real-time interaction of the user or stored instructions of the user.

17. The method of claim 1 in which at least one of the actions of (a) carriage of digital items, (b) enabling selection of digital items, (c) real-time blending, (d) presenting the dynamic construction and (e) causing changes in the makeup of the dynamic construction, is performed by resources that include hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software, that are part of the network infrastructure, part of the electronic device, or part of other devices, or a combination of them.

32. The method of claim 1 also including

maintaining coordinated globally accessible directories of at least two of:

digital items, communications of the digital items, places, recipients, interests, goals, and variable boundary principles.

33. The method of claim 1 comprising

managing the presentation of the digital items in a manner to maintain the blended dynamic construction persistently and at least partially on the recipient'"'"'s device and at least partially on another device at another location.

37. The method of claim 1 comprising regulating access of third-parties using at least one of:

recognition, identities, memberships, groups, subscriptions, white lists, black lists, biometric identification, hardware devices, boundary management service, logins to a place management facility, other logins, paid admissions, access codes, issued credentials, authorizations, access cards or badges, or door key pads.

58. The method of claim 1 in which

maintaining records related to at least one of:

a type of acquired digital item or a variable boundary principle,

maintaining the records including automatically receiving information about uses and interactions with the digital items.

64. The method of claim 67 comprising applying privacy constraints including that (1) if a recipient'"'"'s presence is private, the data items or blended dynamic construction of the recipient is private, (2) if a recipient'"'"'s presence is secret then the existence of the presence, the data items or blended dynamic construction are invisible.

67. The method of claim 1 comprising

regulating a recipient'"'"'s experience of a blended dynamic construction, by filtering in filtering out, or both,

the filtering or filtering out comprising at least one of:

identities, recipients, presences, privacy, protection, resources, groups, values or goals, content, digital items, commerce, applications, audio, and video.

115. The method of claim 1 comprising

enabling a person to define characteristics of digital items in a blended dynamic construction for the person or for one or more identities associated with the person, and

automatically regulating the interactions between the person or a given one of the identities of the person and each of the digital items in accordance with defined characteristics of the blended dynamic construction.

121. The method of claim 1 comprising arranging for payments to the recipient based on aspects of presenting the blended dynamic construction, or interactions with the blended dynamic construction, by the recipient or by one or more identities of the recipient.

127. The method of claim 1 comprising evaluating a performance of a blended dynamic construction based on a defined metric.

128. The method of claim 1 also including changing the defined characteristics of the blended dynamic construction to improve the performance of the altered reality under a defined metric.

130. The method of claim 1 in which the defined characteristics are changed by at least one of:

governances, vendors, or an authorized third-party.

134. The method of claim 1 comprising automatically regulating the blended dynamic construction includes providing digital protection or physical protection for the recipient,

in which providing protection comprises at least two of:

(a) identification by recognizing, identifying, looking up, retrieving, profiling, valuing, estimating, or classifying;

(b) notification by messaging, notifying, or displacing;

(c) replying by interacting messaging, auto-replying, contacting, or learning;

(d) acceptance or rejection by accepting, approving, adding, removing, rejecting, excluding, or blocking;

(e) prioritizing or filtering by prioritizing, promoting, demoting, filtering, or excluding;

(f) interaction by interacting, communicating, connecting, or learning;

(g) camouflaging by substituting or replacing;

(h) recording by recording, logging, tracking, timestamping, or videoing, (i) escalation by alerting, notifying, tracking, alarming, escalating, stealthing, or protecting.

147. The method of claim 1 in which characteristics of the blended dynamic construction are saved.

149. The method of claim 1 in which characteristics of the blended dynamic construction are reported.

150. The method of claim 147 in which the characteristics of the blended dynamic constructions are retrieved and used.

154. The method of claim 1 comprising paying compensation to the recipient for at least one of:

presenting blended dynamic constructions or of interactions with digital items by the recipient or one or more of the identities of the recipient.

280. The method of claim 1 also comprising supplementing or altering the blended dynamic construction presented on the electronic device based on information about the recipient, the electronic device, the acquired digital items, or an alternate reality.

284. The method of claim 154 in which the compensation comprises money, virtual money, credit, or scrip.

286. The method of claim 154 in which the compensation is based on a volume of activity associated with the blended dynamic construction or digital items.

289. The method of claim 286 in which the activity comprises a volume of at least one of:

exposures, uses, responses, interactions, or steps.

290. The method of claim 286 comprising maintaining online accounts of the compensation.

341. The method of claim 1 in which the value provided by the blended dynamic construction to the users comprises a defined package that is presented to the users and has a defined consideration associated with it.

342. The method of claim 1 comprising

electronically providing to the recipient an offer to utilize boundaries in the blended dynamic construction by including some digital items that are acquired and presented to the user and excluding some digital items from presentation to the user,

managing participation by the recipient in the blended dynamic construction, and

passing consideration in exchange for a value offered by the boundaries.

371. The method of claim 1 also comprising

using one or more boundaries management systems to manage the digital items in the presentation of the blended dynamic construction to the recipients.

373. The method of claim 1 in which

different versions of the blended dynamic construction are presented to different recipients.

375. The method of claim 1 in which

the digital items comprise at least one of:

advertisements, brands of products, buildings, interiors of buildings, CGI advertisements, CGI illustrations of products, CGI videos, CGI buildings, and CGI people.

377. The method of claim 1 in which

the digital items include at least one of:

real places, non-real places, real objects, non-real objects, real persons, non-real persons, real video, non-real video, real audio, and non-real audio.

383. The method of claim 371 in which

one or more of the boundaries management systems responds to a recipient'"'"'s indicating digital items to be included or excluded in blended dynamic construction.

384. The method of claim 1 in which

the recipient indicates digital items of the blended dynamic construction that are to be included or excluded in the presentation of the blended dynamic construction to another recipient.

386. The method of claim 1 in which

one or more of the boundaries management systems presents and updates the blended dynamic construction as a network facility without explicit action by a recipient.

390. The method of claim 1 in which

one or more of the boundaries management systems responds to at least one of:

participant choices, automated settings, a participant'"'"'s physical location, a participant'"'"'s identity, and authorizations.

440. The method of claim 1 in which

the blending comprises at least one of the following:

auto-scale, auto-resize, auto-align, or auto-rotate.

455. The method of claim 1 comprising;

also presenting at least a portion of the blended dynamic construction to another recipient presenting commercial information in the blended dynamic construction changing digital items or the blended dynamic construction automatically based on information about recipients or the locations of presentation or both, changing digital items or the blended dynamic construction in response to manually entered instructions of the recipients.

456. The method of claim 1 in which

the presentation of the digital items includes replacing part or all of the blended dynamic construction presented to another recipient without informing the other recipient that a replacement has been made.

487. The method of claim 1 comprising

automatically receiving information about uses or interactions with the digital items, participants, identities, presences, groups, locations, characteristics, or boundary settings connections in virtual places, and virtual places.

502. The method of claim 1 in which

the preferences of the recipient comprise goals, interests of the recipient, person or the recipient'"'"'s identity, and

the value or goal includes at least one of:

family or social values, spiritual values, commerce, politics, business, governance, personal, social, group, mobile, invisible or behavioral goals.

517. The method of claim 1 comprising

generating revenue in connection with at least one of (a) acquiring digital items in acquisition places, (b) using a publicly available set of conventions, (c) providing blended dynamic constructions and boundary services, (d) delivering—

or preventing the delivery of selected digital items, (e) displaying or preventing the display of some of the selected digital items, or (f) advertising in connection with any of them.

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504. A method comprising

using publicly available protocols with which any arbitrary system can comply to enable carriage on a publicly accessible network infrastructure of commercial digital items that have been acquired using electronic systems at geographically separate acquisition places,

the commercial digital items including at least two real-time live non-fictional representations of one or more people and including other items of audio, video, images, content, messages, data, application, advertising, or CGI content, the commercial digital items including commercial elements of a current presentation on the device,

through the publicly accessible network infrastructure, enabling selection, from among the commercial digital items, of items for presentation to at least one recipient through an electronic device at a place other than at least one of the acquisition places, the selection being based on (a) at least one expressed commercial interest or goal of the recipient to whom the items will be presented, and (b) at least one variable commercial boundary principle that depends on boundary preferences derived both from sources of the digital items and from the recipient, the variable boundary principle permitting at least one of the commercial digital items to be used for presentation to the recipient and preventing at least one of the commercial digital items from being used for presentation to the recipient,

the selected commercial digital items not being limited by a theme or concept of a game or of a third-party,

dynamically and in real time blending at least two of the selected commercial digital items into a dynamic construction to be presented on the electronic device, the dynamic construction including elements of a current presentation on the device,

the real-time blending including segmenting the real-time live non-fictional representations to obtain two or more of the digital items, obtaining information about sizes and other characteristics of at least two of the digital items, and combining into a scene the digital items obtained by segmenting, the scene including background and foreground parts of the scene, the combining being based at least in part on the sizes and other characteristics of the digital items,

enabling the recipient to define characteristics of the commercial dynamic construction, in which the defined characteristics are changed by at least one of:

manually, automatically, by vendors, and by an authorized third-party,

in response to determining that the recipient is present at the electronic device, automatically and continuously presenting and updating the dynamic construction on the electronic device, and

as the user interacts with the dynamic construction, causing changes in the makeup of the dynamic construction in response to real-time interaction of the user or stored instructions of the user,

identifying and transmitting the recipient'"'"'s uses and interactions with the commercial digital items, and

compensating the recipient for a defined value of the continuous presenting and updating of the commercial dynamic construction, in which

the compensation is based on at least one of;

a volume of exposures, uses, responses, interactions, or steps with the commercial digital items.

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