File processing using mapping between web presences

• US 7,233,990 B1
• Filed: 01/21/2003
• Issued: 06/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Debaty, Philippe, Vorbau, William Alex, Goddi, Patrick M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Etienne; Ario
• Assistant Examiner(s): EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A
• Application Number:
  US10/347,999
• Time in Patent Office: 1,610 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709223-225, 709/203, 709/208, 709/226
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

Using a web presence manager infrastructure (see Appendix), actions, appliance events, and presences are continuously and automatically captured and stored as historical metadata for each physical context managed. The metadata is mapped interactively for all users. Personal content for each user, such as digital file usage, is indexed in association with each physical context. Users personal content from autobiographical web presence manager past events is displayed upon each registration of the user'"'"'s presence in a current physical context with content recall directly related to the current physical context. Personal content mapping to available services is also provided.

Claims

1. A method of enabling display of a view to a user of content media organized by relevancy to a smart space physical context based on autobiographical media requests made previously in the same smart space physical context in a computerized network, wherein said smart space physical context is represented as a network presence and comprises at least one network-enabled appliance physically connected to the network, the method comprising:

enabling an enhanced mobile device associated with said network, the enhanced mobile device storing a personal web presence of a user;

using said enhanced mobile device, recognizing appliance-related network presences for the at least one network-enabled appliance;

transmitting representations of said appliance-related network presences to a mapping resource on said network;

using said mapping resource, associating each of said network presences with personal content files associated with the personal web presence of the user of said enhanced mobile device;

displaying a map on said mobile device wherein said map provides a correlation between said personal content files and actions each of said appliances can perform thereon such that a user of said mobile device can select one or more of said actions; and

using said device, sending a request for content media accessible over the network to an appliance-related network presence for display, execution or play by an appliance associated with the appliance-related network presence;

creating an autobiography of the media request by storing current context information associated with the request wherein the current context information includes a presence of another user as indicated by his network presence in the smart space physical context when the request was made;

the personal web presence of the user stores the autobiography of the media request associated with the user'"'"'s personal web presence; and

responsive to the user re-entering the same smart space physical context at a later time, displaying on the enhanced mobile device a view of a list of content media that was requested in a previous time period in the same smart space physical context based on similarity of the current context information with context information stored in the autobiography of the requested content media of the previous time period.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, said associating further comprising:

retrieving an aggregated list of personal content files associated with said user;

sequentially selecting a representation for each of said files; and

sequentially comparing each of said representations with a list of appliances and services available in the current environment for actions that can be performed on each for making said correlation.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2 wherein said list of appliances and services available has a description on said network including a uniform resource locator for each.

4. A smart space network comprising:

a smart space physical context having network-enabled appliances therein, the smart space physical context being represented by a web presence and each of said network-enabled appliances being represented by a web presence;

a mobile computing device, having enhancements for recognizing the web presence of the smart space physical context and the web presences of the network-enabled appliances, said mobile device including a personal web presence executable representation for a user which communicates via the network with the web presence of the physical context, the web presences of the network-enabled appliances, and any personal web presences of other users present using said mobile device, recognizing appliance-related network presences for the at least one network-enabled appliance;

transmitting representations of said appliance-related network presences to a mapping resource on said network;

using said mapping resource, associating each of said network presences with personal content files associated with the personal web presence of the user of said enhanced mobile device;

displaying a map on said mobile device wherein said map provides a correlation between said personal content files and action each of said appliances can perform thereon such that a user of said mobile device can select one or more of said actions;

for each user of said network, a user-related content store on said network having user-related content files;

on said network, a file-to-action-mapper for sending to said device a set of interactive representations associating said user-related content files to network-enabled appliances in a current time period for the smart space physical context in which the device is located; and

wherein responsive to user input, the personal web presence of the user executing on the mobile device,

sends a request for content media accessible over the network to an appliance-related network presence for display, execution or play by an appliance associated with the appliance-related network presence,

creates an autobiography of the media request by storing current context information about the web presences represented in the smart space physical context at the time of the request, including any web presence of another user as indicated by his network presence in the smart space physical context,

stores the autobiography of the media request, and

responsive to the user re-entering the same smart space physical context at later time, displaying on the mobile device a view of a list of content media that was requested in a previous time period in the same smart space physical context based on similarity of the current context information with context information stored in the autobiographies of requested content media of the previous time period.