Calculation of higher-order data from context data

• US 8,515,468 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2009
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Sharada, Karmarkar, Amit
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): HERRERA, DIEGO D
• Application Number:
  US12/579,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20100069103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 370/328, 370/349
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• 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: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method and article of manufacture for calculation of higher-order data from context data are disclosed. An application program interface receives a set of context data in conjunction with a calculation module. A calculation module calculates a higher-order data using the set of context data. A signal-generation module embeds the higher-order data in a telecommunication signal. The calculation module may create a coordinate space for the set of context data. The calculation module may define a property of the coordinate space. The calculation module operates to define a function that describes a relation between each member of the set of context data.

Claims

1. A system for calculating a higher-order context data from a context data comprising:

a sensor operative to obtain a set of context data;

a text messaging application operative to provide a user-generated short message service (SMS) message or a user-generated multimedia message service (MMS) message and to transmit the message to a receiving device, and wherein the SMS message or the MMS message comprises a reference to an environmental attribute of a mobile device;

an application program interface operative to automatically obtain a set of context data, wherein the set of context data comprises automatically obtained measurements of at least one environmental attribute of the mobile device;

a calculation module operative to automatically calculate to higher-order data, with at least one processor, using the set of context data, wherein the context data comprises an information describing an environmental attribute of a mobile device, wherein the higher-order data is calculated by plotting first context-data represented as a first vector in a coordinate space, plotting a second context-data as second vector in the coordinate space and determining a relation between the first vector and the second vector, and wherein the higher-order data comprises the relation; and

a signal-generation module operative to automatically embed the higher-order data in the user-generated SMS message or the user-generated MMS message and to transmit the message to a receiving device.

2. The system of claim 1,

wherein the calculation module operates to create a coordinate space for analysis of the set of context data, and

wherein the calculation module operates to define a property of the coordinate space.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the calculation module operates to define a function that describes a relation between each member of the set of context data.

4. The system of claim 1,

wherein the calculation module operates to define a first coordinate space for a first context data type and a second coordinate space for a second context data type, and

wherein the calculation module operates to define an interspatial function that describes a relation between the first coordinate space and the second coordinate space.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the set of context data is received from a chemical sensor coupled with the mobile device.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the set of context data is received from a biometric medical device coupled with the mobile device.

7. A method of embedding a supplemental information in a text message, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a user-generated text message;

automatically selecting a space with a specified set of properties;

automatically obtaining a first context data derived from a sensor of a mobile device, wherein the first context data comprises an environmental condition of the mobile device referred to in the user-generated text message;

mapping, with at least one processor, the first context data in the space;

automatically obtaining a second context data from the sensor or another sensor of the mobile device;

mapping the second context data in the space;

relating a first context data represented within the space with a second context data represented within the space;

automatically creating a supplemental information comprising the relationship between the first context data and the second context data; and

automatically embedding the supplemental information into a the user-generated text message.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

inputting a first contextual context data value and a second contextual context data value into a function.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

creating the supplemental information with an output of the function.

10. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

selecting another space with another specified set of properties; and

providing another function that relates a third context data represented within the other space with a fourth context data represented within the other space.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

combining the space and the other space to create a combined space.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

deriving a first direction vector from at least two location data of the mobile device;

mapping the direction vector in the space;

deriving a second direction vector from at least two location data of the mobile device;

mapping the second direction vector in the space; and

wherein the supplemental information comprises the relationship between the first direction vector and the second direction vector.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the context data comprises an information describing an environmental attribute of a mobile device.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the environmental attribute comprises at least one of a context data derived from a pressure sensor, a temperature context data, a barometric pressure context data, a humidity context data, an accelerometer context data, a gyroscope context data, a global positioning system (GPS) context data and an ambient light context data.

15. The method of claim 14,

wherein the first context data variable comprises a GPS context data variable,

wherein the second context data variable comprises an accelerometer context data variable, and

wherein the function relates the GPS context data variable with the accelerometer context data variable.

16. A computerized method of embedding a supplemental information in a text message, comprising the steps of:

selecting a space with a specified set of properties;

automatically obtaining a first context data derived from a sensor of a mobile device, wherein the

sensor obtains information about an environmental attribute of the mobile device;

mapping the first context data in the space;

automatically obtaining a second context data from another sensor of another mobile device;

mapping the second context data in the space;

automatically relating a first context data represented within the space with a second context data represented within the space;

creating a supplemental information comprising the relationship between the first context

data and the second context data; and

embedding the supplemental information into a text message.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

deriving a first direction vector from at least two location data of the mobile device;

mapping the direction vector in the space;

deriving a second direction vector from at least two location data of the other mobile device;

mapping the second direction vector in the space; and

wherein the supplemental information comprises the relationship between the first direction vector and the second direction vector.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the sensor comprises a chemical sensor and the other sensor comprises another chemical sensor.