Proximity based smart collaboration

• US 8,219,027 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2009
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Appleby, Richard M., Bedi, Bharat V., Brown, Kevin C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pascal, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KHIEM D
• Application Number:
  US12/393,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20100216402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,230 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/419
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A first device detects one or more devices within communication proximity of the first device, determines one or more actions to perform when said one or more devices are within communication proximity, learns behavior of the first device when said one or more devices are detected to be within communication proximity of the first device and performs said one or more actions.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for proximity based collaboration, comprising:

detecting one or more devices within communication proximity of a first device;

determining one or more actions to perform in response to detecting that said one or more devices are within communication proximity;

learning behavior of the first device when said one or more devices are detected to be within communication proximity of the first device; and

performing automatically said one or more actions,

wherein the learning includes capturing interactions occurring between the first device and a user of the first device for a predetermined period of time while said one or more devices are detected to be within communication proximity, and wherein said one or more actions to perform are determined based on the previously captured interactions between the first device and the user of the first device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more actions are performed within the first device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more actions are performed external to the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining further includes:

determining said one or more actions to perform based on a default set of actions.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of detecting includes employing discovery of devices within radio frequency range of communications based on a predetermined radio frequency communication protocol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more actions include no action.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more actions include opening an application in the first device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more actions include changing configuration of the first device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more actions include changing behavior of the first device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the learning further includes the first device building a list of captured interactions occurring each time the one or more devices come into proximity of the first device over a predetermined observation period, and selecting one or more common actions in the list for automatically performing on the first device next time the one or more devices come into proximity of the first device.

11. The method of claim 10, further including filtering said one or more common actions based on one or more criteria, including time or geographic location or combinations thereof.

12. The method of claim 1, further including keeping an exclusionary list of device identifications indicating that said one or more actions should not be performed if said one or more devices are on the exclusionary list.

13. A system for proximity based smart collaboration, comprising:

a first computer device;

a radio frequency device detection module in the first device operable to detect one or more second devices within communication proximity of a first device,

the first computer device further operable to determine one or more actions to perform when said one or more second devices are within communication proximity, the first computer device further operable to learn behavior of the first computer device when said one or more second devices are detected to be within communication proximity of the first computer device, and the first computer device further operable to perform said one or more actions automatically,

wherein the behavior of the first computer device is learned by at least capturing interactions occurring between the first computer device and a user of the first computer device for a predetermined period of time while said one or more devices are detected to be within communication proximity, and wherein said one or more actions to perform are determined based on the previously captured interactions between the first device and the user of the first device.

14. The system of claim 13, further including:

a storage module operable to store the learned behavior of the first computer device, identifications of said one or more second devices, and configuration of the first computer device while said first computer device is within communication proximity of said one or more second devices.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the storage module is located in the first computer device.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the storage module is located outside the first computer device.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein said one or more actions are performed within the first computer device.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein said one or more actions are performed external to the first device.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the first computer device determines said one or more actions to perform based on a default set of actions.

20. A non-transitory program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of proximity based smart collaboration, comprising:

detecting one or more devices within communication proximity of a first device;

determining one or more actions to perform in response to detecting that said one or more devices are within communication proximity;

learning behavior of the first device when said one or more devices are detected to be within communication proximity of the first device; and

performing said one or more actions,

wherein the learning includes capturing interactions between the first device and a user of the first device for a predetermined period of time while said one or more devices are detected to be within communication proximity, and wherein said one or more actions to perform are determined based on the previously captured interactions between the first device and the user of the first device.

21. The non-transitory program storage device of claim 20, wherein said one or more actions are performed within the first device.

22. The non-transitory program storage device of claim 20, wherein said one or more actions are performed external to the first device.

23. The non-transitory program storage device of claim 20, wherein the step of determining further includes:

determining said one or more actions to perform based on a default set of actions.

24. The non-transitory program storage device of claim 20, wherein the step of detecting include employing automatic discovery of devices within radio frequency range of communications based on a predetermined radio frequency communication protocol.