Context sensitive media and information

• US 8,965,890 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dettori, Paolo, Schaffa, Frank A., Schilling, Augustine C., Nogima, Julio
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US14/012,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20130346407A1
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 707/794, 707/726, 707/E17.121, 707/E17.12, 707/736, 707/E17.009, 715/708, 715/205, 715/255, 725/44, 725/47, 709/202, 709/203, 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Systems and methods for creating and processing context sensitive media objects are disclosed. One method is directed to processing a context sensitive media object in a target context. The method includes receiving an object with one or more object rules embedded within the object such that the one or more object rules are propagated with the object. Further, a determination of whether the object is context sensitive is made. If the object is context sensitive, the method prioritizes between the one or more object rules and one or more context rules related to a target context. In addition, a determination of which method or methods should be executed to process the object in the target context is made based on the prioritization.

Claims

1. A method for processing a context sensitive media object in a target context, comprising the steps of:

receiving an object with one or more object rules embedded within the object such that the one or more object rules are propagated with the object;

determining if the object is context sensitive;

if the object is context sensitive, prioritizing between the one or more object rules and one or more context rules related to a target context using a processor; and

deciding which method or methods to execute based on the prioritizing such that the object can be processed in the target context, based on interaction patterns to assign priorities and processing orders for the method or methods.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of adding the method or methods to execute to a workflow of a processing engine.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of binding an object with context sensitive information to create a context sensitive object.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step of prioritizing comprises defining an order for processing the object and context rules and adding corresponding execution decisions to a workflow according to said order.

5. A non-transitory computer readable program storage device that stores a program of instructions that are readable and executable by the computer to perform the method steps as recited in claim 1.

6. A method for making a media object context sensitive for processing in a plurality of contexts, comprising the steps of:

providing a media object; and

enhancing the media object using a processor by;

embedding into the media object a first set of object rules and methods for processing media content in the media object in one or more contexts and binding context sensitive information to the media object to convert the media object into a context sensitive media object such that, upon entering one or more target environments by the context sensitive media object, the object rules are propagated with the object and the first set of object rules and a set of context rules and methods are considered to determine how to process the context sensitive media object in the one or more target environments,

wherein binding context sensitive information to the media object includes distributing the context specific information through a separate logical path from the media object and referencing the context specific information with the media object using a reference to the media object.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step of binding includes employing an object association module.

8. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step of binding includes pre-pending binary information to the media object.

9. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step of binding includes packaging the media object and the context sensitive information together in an archive.

10. A non-transitory computer readable program storage device that stores a program of instructions that are readable and executable by the computer to perform the method steps as recited in claim 6.

11. A method for processing a context sensitive media object in a target context, comprising the steps of:

receiving an object with one or more object rules embedded within the object such that the one or more object rules are propagated with the object;

determining if the object is context sensitive;

if the object is context sensitive, prioritizing between the one or more object rules and one or more context rules related to a target context using a processor, by defining an order for processing the object and context rules and adding corresponding execution decisions to a workflow according to said order; and

deciding which method or methods to execute based on the prioritizing such that the object can be processed in the target context.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising the step of adding the method or methods to execute to a workflow of a processing engine.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising the step of binding an object with context sensitive information to create a context sensitive object.

14. A non-transitory computer readable program storage device that stores a program of instructions that are readable and executable by the computer to perform the method steps as recited in claim 11.