CONTEXT-AWARE TASK PROCESSING FOR MULTIPLE DEVICES

• US 20170230304A1
• Filed: 04/28/2016
• Published: 08/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: LIU, Su, ROZNER, Eric J., SZE, Chin Ngai, WEI, Yaoguang
• Granted Patent: US 10,484,485 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/509 Offload
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to processing tasks offloaded from one or more user devices to a cloud service. An example method generally includes receiving a command to be processed by the cloud service. The cloud service generates a response based on the command and selects one or more user devices to receive at least part of the response. The cloud service selects the one or more user devices based, at least in part, on context information about the one or more user devices. The cloud service partitions the response into one or more portions corresponding to each of the one or more user devices based on the selecting and transmits the one or more portions to the corresponding one or more selected user devices.

Claims

1. A method for processing commands offloaded from a user device to a cloud service, comprising:

receiving a command to be processed by the cloud service;

generating a response based on the command;

selecting, based on context information about one or more user devices, one or more user devices to receive at least part of the response, wherein the context information comprises information about capabilities of the one or more user devices and information about whether a user is interacting with the one or more user devices;

partitioning the response into one or more portions corresponding to each of the one or more user devices based on the selecting; and

transmitting the one or more portions to the corresponding one or more selected user devices.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting one or more user devices comprises:

for a type of output, generating a score for each of the one or more user devices based on the context information associated with each of the one or more user devices; and

identifying a device with a highest score as the selected user device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selected user devices comprises a designated master device of the one or more user devices.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the partitioned response comprises routing information identifying one or more user devices to receive each partition of the partitioned response.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the partitioning the response comprises generating at least a first partition including audio data, a second partition including video data, and a third partition including haptic feedback data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the context information comprises differences from previously transmitted context information stored at the cloud service.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the context information includes data from one or more sensors at a user device indicating that a user is actively manipulating the user device.

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