Determining a dynamic user profile indicative of a user behavior context with a mobile device

• US 9,037,527 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2014
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Kuhn, Lukas Daniel, Nanda, Sanjiv, Narayanan, Vidya
• Primary Examiner(s): Holmes, Michael B
• Application Number:
  US14/221,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20140207727A1
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 706/52
• US Class Current: 706/52
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/048 Fuzzy inferencing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42136 Administration or customisation of services

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for use in a mobile device to determine whether a dynamic user profile is to transition from a first state to a second state based, at least in part, on one or more sensed indicators. The dynamic user profile may be indicative of one or more current inferable user behavior contexts for a user co-located with the mobile device. The mobile device may transition a dynamic user profile from a first state to a second state, in response to a determination that the dynamic user profile is to transition from the first state to the second state, and operatively affect one or more functions performed, at least in part, by the mobile device based, at least in part, on the transition of the dynamic user profile to the second state.

Claims

1. A method comprising, at a mobile device:

determining that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a point of interest (POI), wherein the determination that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a POI, based, at least in part, on one or more sensed indicators;

associating, with a processor, an attribute corresponding to a user co-located with the mobile device with a function corresponding to the POI;

determining a current user behavior context based, at least in part, on the association;

operatively affecting one or more functions performed by the mobile device based, at least in part, on the determined current user behavior context.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that a change has occurred in a user behavior context for the user co-located with the mobile device, wherein the determination that the change has occurred is based, at least in part, on the one or more sensed indicators.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the change comprises the presence of a person other than the user.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein operatively affecting the one or more functions performed by the mobile device comprises transitioning a dynamic user profile from a first state to a second state in response to the determination that the change has occurred, wherein the second state is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second state comprises a previously unknown state.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the current user behavior context is further based on one or more of a time of day, day of the week, weather, sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a dynamic user profile that is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing either or both of a schedule file or a communication file to identify a sensed indicator.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said one or more sensed indicators is based, at least in part, on one or more wireless signals received from one or more other devices via one or more network interfaces of said mobile device.

10. An apparatus comprising:

means for determining that a mobile device is proximate to or approaching a point of interest (POI), wherein the determination that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a POI, based, at least in part, on one or more sensed indicators;

means for associating an attribute corresponding to a user co-located with the mobile device with a function corresponding to the POI;

means for determining a current user behavior context based, at least in part, on the association;

means for operatively affecting one or more functions performed by the mobile device based, at least in part, on the determined current user behavior context.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising means for determining that a change has occurred in a user behavior context for the user co-located with the mobile device, wherein the determination that the change has occurred is based, at least in part, on the one or more sensed indicators.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the change comprises the presence of a person other than the user.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the means for operatively affecting the one or more functions performed by the mobile device comprises means for transitioning a dynamic user profile from a first state to a second state in response to the determination that the change has occurred, wherein the second state is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the second state comprises a previously unknown state.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the means for determining the current user behavior context further comprise means for determining the current user behavior context based on one or more of a time of day, day of the week, weather, sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile device.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising means for determining a dynamic user profile that is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

17. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising means for processing either or both of a schedule file or a communication file to identify a sensed indicator.

18. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising means for receiving one or more wireless signals from one or more other devices, wherein at least one of said one or more sensed indicators is based, at least in part, on the one or more wireless signals.

19. A mobile device comprising:

memory; and

a processing unit communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to;

determine that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a point of interest (POI), wherein the determination that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a POI, based, at least in part, on one or more sensed indicators;

associate an attribute corresponding to a user co-located with the mobile device with a function corresponding to the POI;

determine a current user behavior context based, at least in part, on the association;

operatively affect one or more functions performed by the mobile device based, at least in part, on the determined current user behavior context.

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to determine that a change has occurred in a user behavior context for the user co-located with the mobile device, wherein the determination that the change has occurred is based, at least in part, on the one or more sensed indicators.

21. The mobile device of claim 20, wherein the processor is further configured to determine that the change has occurred by determining the presence of a person other than the user.

22. The mobile device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to operatively affect the one or more functions performed by the mobile device by transitioning a dynamic user profile from a first state to a second state in response to the determination that the change has occurred, wherein the second state is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

23. The mobile device of claim 22, wherein the second state comprises a previously unknown state.

24. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the processor is configured to base the current user behavior context on one or more of a time of day, day of the week, weather, sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile device.

25. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a dynamic user profile that is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

26. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to process either or both of a schedule file or a communication file to identify a sensed indicator.

27. The mobile device of claim 19, further comprising one or more network interfaces, wherein the processor is further configured to base at least one of said one or more sensed indicators, at least in part, on one or more wireless signals received from one or more other devices via the one or more network interfaces.

28. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein computer-readable instructions executable by one or more processing units in a mobile device, the instructions configured to cause the mobile device to perform functions including:

determining that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a point of interest (POI), wherein the determination that the mobile device is proximate to or approaching a POI, based, at least in part, on one or more sensed indicators;

associating an attribute corresponding to a user co-located with the mobile device with a function corresponding to the POI;

determining a current user behavior context based, at least in part, on the association;

operatively affecting one or more functions performed by the mobile device based, at least in part, on the determined current user behavior context.

29. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising instructions configured to cause the mobile device to determine that a change has occurred in a user behavior context for the user co-located with the mobile device, wherein the determination that the change has occurred is based, at least in part, on the one or more sensed indicators.

30. The computer-readable medium of claim 29, further comprising instructions configured to cause the mobile device to determine the presence of a person other than the user, wherein the change comprises the presence of the person other than the user.

31. The computer-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the instructions configured to cause the mobile device to operatively affect one or more functions performed by the mobile device comprise instructions configured to cause the mobile device to transition a dynamic user profile from a first state to a second state in response to the determination that the change has occurred, wherein the second state is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

32. The computer-readable medium of claim 31, wherein the second state comprises a previously unknown state.

33. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, wherein the instructions configured to cause the mobile device to determine the current user behavior context include instructions to base the determination of the current user behavior context on one or more of a time of day, day of the week, weather, sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile device.

34. The computer-readable medium of claim 29, further comprising instructions configured to cause the mobile device to determine a dynamic user profile that is indicative of the determined current user behavior context.

35. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising instructions configured to cause the mobile device to process either or both of a schedule file or a communication file to identify a sensed indicator.

36. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising instructions configured to cause the mobile device to base at least one of said one or more sensed indicators, at least in part, on one or more wireless signals received from one or more other devices via one or more network interfaces of said mobile device.