Biosensor measurements included in the association of context data with a text message

• US 8,509,826 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2010
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Amit, Karmarkar, Sharada
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): HERRERA, DIEGO D
• Application Number:
  US12/691,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20100120456A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• 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 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of an association of context data with a text-message component. A context data is associated with a text-message component. The association between the context data and the text-message component may be indicated with a user interface. The association between the context data and the text-message component may be embedded in a text-message signal. The association between the context data and the text-message component may be embedded in a short message service (SMS) signal.

Claims

1. A method of a mobile device comprising:

automatically detecting a text message component in a text message drafted with a mobile device, wherein the text message component is drafted with a text-messaging application of the mobile device by the user of the mobile device, and wherein the text message component comprises a term in the memory of the mobile device that is used to match the text message component with a biosensor data;

automatically correlating the text message component with the biosensor data, wherein the use of the biosensor data is automatically determined by the text-message component;

associating the biosensor data with the text message component, wherein the biosensor data comprises a biosensor measurement that is automatically obtained from a biosensor that measures an attribute of the user of the mobile device,

indicating the association between the biosensor data and the text-message component with a user interface of the mobile device; and

graphically indicating a magnitude of the available biosensor data associated with the text-message component.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user manually associates the biosensor data with the text message component.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the biosensor data comprises an analytical biosensor data.

4. In a mobile device having a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a display and a selection device, a method comprising:

rendering a user-generated text-message component on a GUI, wherein the text-message component is drafted with a text-messaging application of the mobile device by a user of a mobile device, and wherein the text-message component comprises a term in the memory of the mobile device that is used to automatically correlate the text-message component with a biosensor-data type;

automatically rendering a biosensor-data icon on the GUI;

automatically determining the biosensor-data type relationally linked with the user-generated text-message component, wherein the use of the biosensor-data type is automatically determined by the text-message component;

retrieving a biosensor-data measurement associated with the text-message component, wherein the biosensor-data measurement is comprised of the biosensor-data type relationally linked with the user-generated text-message component, wherein the biosensor-data provides information of an attribute of an environment of a mobile device, and wherein the biosensor-data measurement is retrieved from the memory of the mobile device; and

transforming the biosensor-data icon according to the biosensor data measurement.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the sensor comprises a near field communication (NFC) device.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

transforming the biosensor-data icon if a user-controlled pointer is passed over the text-message component.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the biosensor comprises an electrochemical biosensor.

8. The method of claim 4 thither comprising:

rendering a window in the GUI that comprises information related to the biosensor data.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

providing a hyperlink to a webpage comprising additional information related to the biosensor data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the webpage comprises a social networking webpage of a sender of the text-message component.

11. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

rendering an interface element of the GUI to allow selection of the text message component.

12. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

providing a GUI widget to enable selection of a biosensor-data icon graphic.

13. A mobile device comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

render a user-composed text-message component on a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the text-message component is drafted with a text-messaging application of the mobile device by a user of the mobile device, and wherein the text-message component comprises a term in a memory of the mobile device that is used to match the text-message component with a biosensor-data type;

automatically render a biosensor-data icon on the GUI;

automatically retrieve a biosensor data availability associated with the text-message component from a biosensor of the mobile device when the text-message component is automatically related to the biosensor data, wherein the biosensor data provides information of an attribute of an environment of a mobile device, and wherein the biosensor data availability is retrieved from the memory of the mobile device; and

transform a biosensor data indicator according to the biosensor data availability;

a processor readable memory;

a biosensor, configured to;

acquire the biosensor data;

a user input device; and

a display device.

14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the mobile device comprises a smart phone.

15. The mobile device of claim 14, wherein the biosensor acquires an attribute of the user that composed the text-message component.

16. The mobile device of claim 14 further comprising:

a speaker, and

wherein the biosensor data indicator comprises an audio signal propagated by the speaker of the smart phone.

17. A method comprising:

providing a text message application of a mobile device;

automatically obtaining a portion of a user-composed text message generated by the text message application, and wherein the portion of the user-composed text message comprises a term in a memory of the mobile device that is used to match the portion of a user-composed text message with a biosensor data;

automatically determining the biosensor data that relates to the portion of the user-composed text message;

automatically acquiring the biosensor data wherein the biosensor data comprises a sender attribute;

automatically linking the biosensor data to the portion of the text message; and

signifying a linkage of the biosensor data and the portion of the text message with a user interface.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the photometric biosensor or the electrochemical biosensor is communicatively coupled with the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the photometric biosensor or the electrochemical biosensor data is acquired with a near-field communication (NFC) device in the mobile device.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the photometric biosensor or the electrochemical biosensor data is in the mobile device.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the portion of the text message is linked to the photometric biosensor or the electrochemical biosensor data during the composition of the text message.

22. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

transmitting the linkage of the photometric biosensor or the electrochemical biosensor data and the portion of the text message to another mobile device in an short message service (SMS) message.

23. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

transmitting the linkage of the photometric biosensor or the electrochemical biosensor data and the portion of the text message to a server.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the text-message comprises a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message.

25. The method of claim 17 further comprising a computer usable medium having a non-transitory signal computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement the method of claim 17.