Calendar matching of inferred contexts and label propagation

• US 9,008,688 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Ding, Li, Narayanan, Vidya, Lee, Jin Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Beamer, Temica M
• Application Number:
  US13/799,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20130295956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/90.1, 455/414.1, 455/414.2
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for calendar matching of inferred contexts are described. In one potential embodiment, a mobile device may use context information to generate a calendar of inferred contexts. Label information from raw calendar data may be used to update an inferred context within a calendar of inferred contexts. Additionally, the label may be propagated to future contexts and entries in an inferred context calendar.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing context information associated with a mobile device;

identifying, using the context information, a first inferred context of the mobile device for a first time period to create first inferred calendar information;

accessing first raw calendar data associated with a user of the mobile device and the first time period;

identifying from the first raw calendar data, a first label from one or more labels in the first raw calendar data;

matching the first label and the first inferred context by verifying that the first label is consistent with the first inferred context;

associating the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context; and

updating the mobile device based on the associating the context information and the first label and based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more labels comprise place labeling information associated with a place identifier included in the first raw calendar data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more labels comprises person labeling information associated with a person identifier included in the first raw calendar data.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein updating the mobile device based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context comprises changing a second inferred context for a second time period that is later than the first time period based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the context information is derived from mobile device sensors, user interface inputs, and network communications.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein updating the mobile device based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context comprises:

matching the first inferred context to a second inferred context associated with a second time period different than the first time period using the context information; and

propagating the first label to the second inferred context.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein propagating the first label to the second inferred context comprises altering a second label associated with the second inferred context to match the first label.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the context information comprises a context stream of sensor information from a hardware sensor, and where updating the mobile device based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context comprises associating labeling information and the sensor information.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

accessing second raw calendar data associated with the user of the mobile device and the first time period;

identifying from the second raw calendar data, a second label from one or more labels in the second raw calendar data;

determining that the second label is inconsistent with the first inferred context prior to associating the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.

10. A device comprising:

a sensor that accesses context information associated with the device;

a memory that stores raw calendar data including a first raw calendar data comprising at least a first label;

a processor that receives the context information from the sensor and identifies, using the context information, a first inferred context of the device for a first time period to create first inferred calendar information, that further receives the first raw calendar data and identifies the first label from one or more labels in the first raw calendar data, that matches the first label and the first inferred context by verifying that the first label is consistent with the first inferred context, that associates the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context, and that updates the device based on the associating the context information and the first label.

11. The device of claim 10 further comprising:

a display module coupled to the processor;

wherein an output to the display module from the processor is adjusted as part of the update of the device based on the associating of the context information and the first label.

12. The device of claim 11 wherein the sensor comprises a location module comprising a global positioning system receiver that receives location signals and wherein the context information identifies a location of the device.

13. The device of claim 11 wherein the sensor comprises a Bluetooth module, and wherein the context information identifies other Bluetooth modules in proximity to the device.

14. The device of claim 11 wherein the sensor comprises a calendar application executed by the processor, and wherein the context information comprises the first raw calendar data.

15. The device of claim 11 further comprising:

a user input module that receives rules and constraints from a user, wherein the adjustment to the output to the display module is based on the rules and constraints.

16. A device comprising:

means for receiving context information associated with the device;

means for receiving raw calendar data including a first raw calendar data associated with the device;

a processor that receives the context information and identifies, using the context information, a first inferred context of the device for a first time period to create first inferred calendar information, that further receives the first raw calendar data and identifies a first label from one or more labels in the first raw calendar data, that matches the first label and the first inferred context by verifying that the first label is consistent with the first inferred context, and that associates the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context; and

means for updating the device based on the associating the context information and the first label.

17. A non-transitory computer readable memory comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a device including the processor to perform a method of context inferrence comprising:

accessing context information associated with a mobile device;

identifying, using the context information, a first inferred context of the mobile device for a first time period to create first inferred calendar information;

accessing first raw calendar data associated with a user of the mobile device and the first time period;

identifying from the first raw calendar data, a first label from one or more labels in the first raw calendar data;

matching the first label and the first inferred context by verifying that the first label is consistent with the first inferred context;

associating the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context; and

updating the mobile device based on the associating the context information and the first label and based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.

18. The non-transitory computer readable memory of claim 17 wherein the method performed by execution of the computer readable instructions further comprises:

accessing second raw calendar data associated with the user of the mobile device and the first time period;

identifying from the second raw calendar data, a second label from one or more labels in the second raw calendar data; and

determining that the second label is inconsistent with the first inferred context prior to associating the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.

19. A device comprising:

means for accessing context information associated with the device;

means for identifying, using the context information, a first inferred context of the device for a first time period to create first inferred calendar information;

means for accessing first raw calendar data associated with a user of the device and the first time period;

means for identifying from the first raw calendar data, a first label from one or more labels in the first raw calendar data;

means for matching the first label and the first inferred context by verifying that the first label is consistent with the first inferred context;

means for associating the context information and the first label based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context; and

means for updating the device based on the associating the context information and the first label and based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.

20. The device of claim 19 wherein the context information comprises location signature information received, at least in part, by a network assisted location service.

21. The device of claim 19 further comprising:

means for updating a user interface presented by the device based on the associating the context information and the first label and based on the matching of the first label and the first inferred context.