Method and apparatus for dynamic management of distributed context

• US 8,261,183 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2009
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ramic, Haris, Tirpak, Thomas M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vaughn, Gregory J
• Application Number:
  US12/503,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016375A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/230, 715/231, 715/232, 715/233
• US Class Current: 715/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history

Abstract

The invention provides embodiments of a method an apparatus for dynamic management of distributed context. Each of a plurality of sticky notes can be associated with contextual information corresponding to a first context in which the virtual sticky note was posted. A request to access at least one of the virtual sticky notes can be received. A second context in which the request was generated can be identified. At least one of the virtual sticky notes that is associated with contextual information that corresponds to the second context can be identified. The identified virtual sticky note(s) can be communicated for presentation to a user.

Claims

1. A method of managing a collection of a plurality of virtual sticky notes, the method executable by a computer and comprising:

the computer associating each of the virtual sticky notes with contextual information corresponding to a first context in which the virtual sticky note was posted; and

in response to receiving a request to access at least one of the virtual sticky notes, the computer;

identifying a second context in which the request is generated;

identifying at least one of the virtual sticky notes that is associated with contextual information that corresponds to the second context;

automatically summarizing the at least one of the plurality of virtual sticky notes in accordance with a summary reduction rate that indicates a frequency at which a content of the virtual sticky note is further summarized over time; and

communicating the summarized virtual sticky note to a communication device for presentation to a user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer automatically aggregating at least a portion of contents from the identified virtual sticky note into a single virtual sticky note;

wherein communicating the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to the user comprises communicating the single virtual sticky note for presentation to the user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer automatically generating at least one hyperlink to the virtual sticky note;

wherein communicating the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to the user comprises communicating the hyperlink for presentation to the user.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer automatically translating at least one of the plurality of the virtual sticky notes;

wherein communicating the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to the user comprises communicating the translated summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to the user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein automatically translating at least one of the plurality of the virtual sticky notes comprises:

translating the virtual sticky note into at least one language commonly spoken in a geographic region in which the virtual sticky note was generated.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer generating an access rule associated with the virtual sticky note.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer associating promotional information with at least one of the plurality of virtual sticky notes, the promotional information generated by an entity with which the virtual sticky note is associated.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

generating access rules associated with the promotional information.

9. A computer program product comprising:

a computer-usable medium comprising computer-usable program code that manages a collection of a plurality of virtual sticky notes, the computer-usable medium comprising;

computer-usable program code that associates each of the virtual sticky notes with contextual information corresponding to a first context in which the virtual sticky note was posted;

computer-usable program code that, in response to receiving a request to access at least one of the virtual sticky notes, identifies a second context in which the request is generated;

computer-usable program code that automatically summarizes at least one of the plurality of virtual sticky notes in accordance with a summary reduction rate that indicates a frequency at which a content of the virtual sticky note is further summarized over time; and

computer-usable program code that, in response to receiving a request to access at least one virtual sticky note, communicates the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to a user.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, the computer-usable medium further comprising:

computer-usable program code that automatically aggregates at least a portion of contents from each of the identified virtual sticky notes into a single virtual sticky note;

wherein the computer-usable program code that communicates the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to a user comprises;

computer-usable program code that communicates the single virtual sticky note for presentation to the user.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, the computer-usable medium further comprising:

computer-usable program code that automatically generates at least one hyperlink to the virtual sticky note;

wherein the computer-usable program code that communicates the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to a user comprises;

computer-usable program code that communicates the hyperlink for presentation to the user.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, the computer-usable medium further comprising:

computer-usable program code that automatically translates at least one of the plurality of the virtual sticky notes;

wherein the computer-usable program code that communicates the summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to a user comprises;

computer-usable program code that communicates the translated summarized virtual sticky note for presentation to the user.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer-usable program code that automatically summarizes each of the plurality of virtual sticky notes comprises:

computer-usable program code that translates the virtual sticky note into at least one language commonly spoken in a geographic region in which the virtual sticky note was generated.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, the computer-usable medium further comprising:

computer-usable program code that generates an access rule associated with the virtual sticky note.

15. The computer program product of claim 9, the computer-usable medium further comprising:

computer-usable program code that associates promotional information with at least one of the plurality of virtual sticky notes, the promotional information generated by an entity with which the virtual sticky note is associated.

16. The computer program product of claim 9, the computer-usable medium further comprising:

computer-usable program code that generates access rules associated with the promotional information.