Dynamic context-data tag cloud

• US 8,275,399 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2010
• Issued: 09/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Amit, Peters, Richard Ross
• Primary Examiner(s): Beamer, Temica M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Herrera, Diego
• Application Number:
  US12/782,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20100229082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 861 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/403, 715/200, 715/707
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of a dynamic context-data tag cloud. A context data from a context-enriched message is acquired. A context-data tag that corresponds to the context data is generated. A context-data tag cloud comprising at least one context-data tag is provided. A mobile device that generated the context-enriched message for an updated context data may be queried. A depiction value of the context data may be updated according to an updated context-data value. The context-data tag cloud may include a visual cue of an attribute of the context data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

parsing a context-enriched message with a server;

acquiring a context data from the context-enriched message;

generating a context-data tag that corresponds to the context data, wherein the context-data tag comprises a term that describes a context data attribute and wherein a display of the context data is weighted by the value of the context-data as a function of time; and

rendering a context-data tag cloud comprising at least one context-data tag into a format accessible by a web browser.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

querying the mobile device that generated the context-enriched message for an updated context data.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

generating a second context-data tag that represents the updated context data.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

integrating the context-data tag cloud with another context-data tag cloud.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

visually depicting the value of the context data with the context-data tag.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

updating a depiction value of the context data according to an updated context-data value.

7. The method of claim 1:

wherein the context-data tag cloud comprises a visual cue of an attribute of the context data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the context-data tag comprises a graphical metaphor of the context data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the context data comprises a data obtained from a near field communication sensor of the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the depiction of the context-data tag comprises a virtual control that triggers the generation of an instruction to the mobile device to provide an updated context data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a machine is caused to perform the method of claim 1 when a set of instructions in a form of a non-carrier wave machine-readable medium is executed by the machine.

12. A method comprising:

obtaining a first context data of a first environmental attribute of a mobile device;

obtaining a second context data of a second environmental attribute of the mobile device;

generating a tag cloud comprising a first component that describes the first context data and a second component that describes the second context data;

modifying a display attribute of the first component according to the first context data as a function of time;

modifying a display attribute of the second component according to the second context data as a function of time;

and

rendering the context-data tag cloud into a format accessible by a web browser.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

associating a metadata term with the context data, and wherein the metadata term comprises a text that describes an attribute of the context data.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

incorporating the text into a web document.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the tag cloud comprises a text component of a context-enriched message.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the metadata term comprises a pre-specified tag associated with a type of context data.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

periodically obtaining a substantially current value of the context data.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

periodically revising the text to describe the substantially current value of the context data.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

providing a control element in the web document that allows a user to initiate a revision of the text to describe the substantially current value of the context data.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the context data comprises a context data of a mobile device extracted from a context-enriched multimedia messaging service (MMS) message.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the first component comprises an icon that depends on a meaning of the first context data.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the icon'"'"'s size is periodically modulated according to the first context data.