Device dream application for a mobile terminal

• US 7,543,233 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2005
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Reponen, Erika, Mattila, Jouka
• Primary Examiner(s): Sax; Steven P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Belousov; Andrey
• Application Number:
  US11/141,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,462 Days
• Field of Search: 715/708, 715/714, 715/825
• US Class Current: 715/708
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00

Abstract

The invention provides a method, computer program product and device for generating a dream-like multimedia presentation, which can be displayed on a mobile terminal, or other digital device, based at least in part on contextual information relating to the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal user. The presentation provides the user with a snapshot of information that appears to be more important to the user at a given period of time, as well as information that may have been forgotten by the user over time, and does so in a manner that is somehow reflective of the user'"'"'s presumed mood.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

capturing a heterogeneous plurality of context data elements comprising three or more emails, messages, voicemails, image files or video files, or a combination thereof, generated or received by an electronic device, wherein respective context data elements have a time at which said context data element was generated or received;

receiving an indication of a desired temporal scope of a presentation to be generated based at least in part on said plurality of context data elements, said temporal scope defining a time period to be represented by said presentation;

identifying a subset of said plurality of context data elements, said subset comprising two or more context data elements generated or received at a time within said time period defined by said desired temporal scope, said subset comprising less than said plurality of context data elements;

determining a relative importance of respective context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of context data elements based upon one or more of a number of instances that respective context data elements have been utilized, a level of significance associated with respective context data elements, and a period of time associated with respective context data elements;

selecting a combination of two or more context data elements from said subset of said plurality of context data elements, wherein at least a portion of said combination is selected based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements;

selecting a mood associated with a user from a plurality of predefined moods based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of said plurality of context data elements captured;

selecting one or more media elements from a plurality of media elements each of said plurality of media elements belonging to one or more of a plurality of categories of media elements each category corresponding to a predefined mood, wherein the media elements comprise audio elements, graphical elements, or a combination thereof, wherein the audio elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of volume, tone, tempo, and musical genre, and the graphical elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of color, tone, and brightness, and wherein at least one of said one or more media elements is selected from the category of media elements corresponding to said mood associated with said user; and

generating said presentation, wherein said presentation comprises said combination of two or more context data elements, and wherein generating said presentation comprises compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the combination comprises randomly selecting one or more data elements, such that a first portion of said presentation comprises one or more data elements selected based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements, and a second portion of said presentation comprises one or more randomly selected data elements.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

determining a ratio of said one or more data elements in said first portion of said presentation to said one or more data elements in said second portion based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein generating said presentation comprises generating a multimedia presentation comprising a combination of one or more media elements.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements comprises defining a tempo at which said one or more context data elements and said one or more media elements are displayed in said multimedia presentation based on the mood associated with the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said combination of two or more context data elements comprises one or more data elements related to a user'"'"'s past, present or future.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of context data elements comprises some combination of data related to a location of a mobile terminal, an environment of said mobile terminal, one or more files created by said mobile terminal, one or more files received by said mobile terminal, one or more calendar entries stored in said mobile terminal, and one or more health related parameters associated with a user of said mobile terminal.

8. A computer program product, wherein the computer program product comprises at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

a first executable portion for capturing a heterogeneous plurality of context data elements comprising three or more emails, messages, voicemails, image files or video files, or a combination thereof, generated or received by an electronic device, wherein respective context data elements have a time at which said context data element was generated or received;

a second executable portion for receiving an indication of a desired temporal scope of a presentation to be generated based at least in part on said plurality of context data elements, said temporal scope defining a time period to be represented by said presentation;

a third executable portion for identifying a subset of said plurality of context data elements, said subset comprising two or more context data elements generated or received at a time within said time period defined by said desired temporal scope, said subset comprising less than said plurality of context data elements;

a fourth executable portion for determining a relative importance of respective context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of context data elements based upon one or more of a number of instances that respective context data elements have been utilized, a level of significance associated with respective context data elements, and a period of time associated with respective context data elements;

a fifth executable portion for selecting a combination of two or more context data elements from said subset of said plurality of context data elements, wherein at least a portion of said combination is selected based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements;

a sixth executable portion for selecting a mood associated with a user from a plurality of predefined moods based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of said plurality of context data elements captured;

a seventh executable portion for selecting one or more media elements from a plurality of media elements each of said plurality of media elements belonging to one or more of a plurality of categories of media elements each category corresponding to a predefined mood, wherein the media elements comprise audio elements, graphical elements, or a combination thereof, wherein the audio elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of volume, tone, tempo, and musical genre, and the graphical elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of color, tone, and brightness, and wherein at least one of said one or more media elements is selected from the category of media elements corresponding to said mood associated with said user; and

an eighth executable portion for generating said presentation, wherein said presentation comprises said combination of two or more context data elements, and wherein generating said presentation comprises compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein selecting the combination comprises randomly selecting one or more data elements, such that a first portion of said presentation comprises one or more data elements selected based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements, and a second portion of said presentation comprises one or more randomly selected data elements.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein said computer-readable program code portions further comprise:

a ninth executable portion for determining a ratio of said one or more data elements in said first portion of said presentation to said one or more data elements in said second portion based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

capture a heterogeneous plurality of context data elements comprising three or more emails, messages, voicemails, image files or video files, or a combination thereof, generated or received by an electronic device, wherein respective context data elements have a time at which said context data element was generated or received;

receive an indication of a desired temporal scope of a presentation to be generated based at least in part on said plurality of context data elements accessible by the apparatus, said temporal scope defining a time period to be represented by said presentation;

identify a subset of said plurality of context data elements, said subset comprising two or more context data elements generated or received at a time within said time period defined by said desired temporal scope, said subset comprising less than said plurality of context data elements;

determine a relative importance of respective context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of context data elements based upon one or more of a number of instances that respective context data elements have been utilized, a level of significance associated with respective context data elements, and a period of time associated with respective context data elements;

select a combination of two or more context data elements from said subset of said plurality of context data elements, wherein at least a portion of said combination is selected based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements;

select a mood associated with a user from a plurality of predefined moods based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of said plurality of context data elements captured;

select one or more media elements from a plurality of media elements each of said plurality of media elements belonging to one or more of a plurality of categories of media elements each category corresponding to a predefined mood, wherein the media elements comprise audio elements, graphical elements, or a combination thereof, wherein the audio elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of volume, tone, tempo, and musical genre, and the graphical elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of color, tone, and brightness, and wherein at least one of said one or more media elements is selected from the category of media elements corresponding to said mood associated with said user; and

generate said presentation, wherein said presentation comprises said combination of two or more context data elements, and wherein generating said presentation comprises compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said processor is further configured to randomly select one or more data elements and to generate said presentation based at least in part on said one or more randomly selected data elements.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein at least a portion of said plurality of context data elements comprises one or more context data elements sensed by one or more sensors.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to generate one or more context data elements, and wherein at least a portion of said plurality of context data elements comprises said one or more generated context data elements.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to receive, via wireless communication with external elements, one or more context data elements, wherein at least a portion of said plurality of context data elements comprises said one or more context data elements received from said external elements.

12. A mobile terminal device comprising:

a display;

a processor in communication with the display; and

a memory module in communication with the processor that stores a plurality of data elements including a heterogeneous plurality of context data elements, said plurality of context data elements comprising three or more emails, messages, voicemails, image files or video files, or a combination thereof, generated or received by the mobile terminal device, said memory module further storing a presentation application executable by the processor, wherein the application is configured, upon execution, to;

receive an indication of a desired temporal scope of a presentation to be generated based at least in part on said plurality of context data elements, said temporal scope defining a time period to be represented by said presentation;

identify a subset of said plurality of context data elements, said subset comprising two or more context data elements generated or received by the mobile terminal device at a time within said time period defined by said desired temporal scope, said subset comprising less than said plurality of context data elements;

determine a relative importance of respective context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of context data elements based upon one or more of a number of instances that respective context data elements have been utilized, a level of significance associated with respective context data elements, and a period of time associated with respective context data elements;

select a combination of two or more context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of data elements based at least in part on said relative importance of respective context data elements;

select a mood associated with a user from a plurality of predefined moods based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of said plurality of context data elements;

select one or more media elements from a plurality of media elements each of said plurality of media elements belonging to one or more of a plurality of categories of media elements each category corresponding to a predefined mood, wherein the media elements comprise audio elements, graphical elements, or a combination thereof, wherein the audio elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of volume, tone, tempo, and musical genre, and the graphical elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of color, tone, and brightness, and wherein at least one of said one or more media elements is selected from the category of media elements corresponding to said mood associated with said user;

generate said presentation comprising said combination of two or more context data elements, wherein generating said presentation comprises compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements; and

cause said presentation to be displayed to said user on the display.

17. An apparatus comprising:

means for capturing a heterogeneous plurality of context data elements comprising three or more emails, messages, voicemails, image files or video files, or a combination thereof, generated or received by said mobile terminal device, wherein respective context data elements have a time at which said context data element was generated or received;

means for receiving an indication of a desired temporal scope of a presentation to be generated based at least in part on said plurality of context data elements accessible by said mobile terminal device, said temporal scope defining a time period to be represented by said presentation;

means for identifying a subset of said plurality of context data elements said subset comprising two or more context data elements generated or received at a time within said time period defined by said desired temporal scope, said subset comprising less than said plurality of context data elements;

means for determining a relative importance of respective context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of context data elements based upon one or more of a number of instances that respective context data elements have been utilized, a level of significance associated with respective context data elements, and a period of time associated with respective context data elements;

means for selecting a combination of two or more context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of data elements based at least in part on said relative importance of respective context data elements;

means for selecting a mood associated with a user from a plurality of predefined moods based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of said plurality of context data elements captured;

means for selecting one or more media elements from a plurality of media elements each of said plurality of media elements belonging to one or more of a plurality of categories of media elements each category corresponding to a predefined mood, wherein the media elements comprise audio elements, graphical elements, or a combination thereof, wherein the audio elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of volume, tone, tempo, and musical genre, and the graphical elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of color, tone, and brightness, and wherein at least one of said one or more media elements is selected from the category of media elements corresponding to said mood associated with said user; and

means for generating a presentation comprising said combination of two or more context data elements, wherein generating said presentation comprises compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 further comprising:

means for randomly selecting one or more data elements, wherein generating said presentation further comprises generating said presentation based at least in part on said one or more randomly selected data elements.