Context diary application for a mobile terminal

• US 9,146,973 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Younghee, Persson, Per, Piippo, Petri, Maenpaa, Petri H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc M
• Application Number:
  US14/061,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052715A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 455/414.2, 455/457, 455/566
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

The invention provides a presentation of contextual information to a digital device in relation to a period of time. As such the invention provides for efficient user access to historical, as well as, current and future or forecasted contextual information. In addition, the present invention provides for current contextual information to be presented in an idle mode view, a scrolling bar mode view or another inconspicuous view. Additionally the present invention provides a novel means of using context information to create multimedia file presentations, image or video file presentations that can be associated with previous periods of time, locations or other context data.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

at least one processor;

a plurality of sensors;

at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the mobile terminal to perform at least the following,

provide a sensor application program interface (API) for processing a plurality types of sensed data transmitted from the sensors, from one or more external sensors in proximity of the mobile terminal, or a combination thereof, into one or more context atoms relating to a plurality predetermined types of context data, wherein each context atom comprises an entity having an associated name, value, source, and date, and the plurality predetermined types of context data includes one or more events, one or more activities, one or more media objects generated at the mobile terminal, or a combination thereof;

store the context atoms and a context API for allowing one or more user applications to access the context data;

and

a script engine configured to store and execute one or more context rules for modifying one or more of the context atoms, creating one or more other context atoms, or a combination thereof, the script engine further storing one or more object-class-based executable code defining one or more conditions of the context rules and one or more actions to be performed when the conditions are satisfied.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor provides one or more subscriptions to one or more of the context atoms and notifications in the event of a change in the context atoms, and periodically polls the context atoms based upon the subscription and notifications, and

the at least one processor provides one or more other subscriptions to one or more of the context atoms specified in one or more of the context rules and notifications when the conditions are satisfied.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein one or more of the context rules are received via a network based on one or more context exchange protocols, and

the one or more context atoms further includes attributes including metadata information, the metadata information associated with reliability of the context data.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the one or more of the context rules are received from one or more other mobile terminal, and

the metadata information further includes information associated with accuracy, source, and time of creation.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a privacy engine configured to provide security, wherein operation of the privacy engine is responsive to information related to the user.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the information related to the user comprises one or more user preferences, profile information, one or more permissions for the privacy engine, or a combination thereof.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the diary or calendar that graphically specifies one or more continuous chronological variations of associated values of the some of the context atoms along a time-line.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein each of associated values of the some of the context atoms is represented as a graphic object with a size in proportion to an associated value.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the one or more actions include transmitting one or more of the context atoms to one or more of the user applications, one or more other devices, or a combination thereof.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors include one or more medical sensors, one or more ambient light sensors, one or more ambient temperature sensors, one or more ambient pressure sensors, or a combination thereof.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is further caused to:

present a context movie API for user selection of a time span in the diary or calendar; and

incorporate one or more of the media objects generated at the mobile terminal within the time span into a user context movie,

wherein the context movie API is further presented for user selection of a movie length, one or more background audio objects, or a combination thereof.

12. A method comprising:

sensing, via a plurality of sensors in a mobile terminal, from one or more external sensors in proximity of the mobile terminal, or a combination thereof, a plurality types of sensed data;

providing a sensor application program interface (API) for processing the sensed data into one or more context atoms relating to a plurality predetermined types of context data, wherein each context atom comprises an entity having an associated name, value, source, and date, and the plurality predetermined types of context data includes one or more events, one or more activities, one or more media objects generated at the mobile terminal, or a combination thereof;

initiating a storage of the context atoms and a context API in the mobile terminal for allowing one or more user applications to access the context data;

presenting on a display of the mobile terminal some of the context atoms and relating predetermined types of context data in the manner of a diary or calendar; and

providing a script engine within the mobile terminal that is configured to initiate a storage of and to execute one or more context rules for modifying one or more of the context atoms, creating one or more other context atoms, or a combination thereof, the script engine further initiating a storage of one or more object-class-based executable code defining one or more conditions of the context rules and one or more actions to be performed when the conditions are satisfied.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more context atoms further includes attributes including metadata information, the metadata information associated with reliability of the context data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the metadata information further includes information associated with accuracy, source, and time of creation.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

providing a privacy engine within the mobile terminal that is configured to provide security, wherein operation of the privacy engine is responsive to information related to the user.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the information related to the user comprises one or more user preferences, profile information, one or more permissions for the privacy engine, or a combination thereof.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the diary or calendar that graphically specifies one or more continuous chronological variations of associated values of the some of the context atoms along a time-line.

18. A method of claim 12, further comprising:

monitoring the external environment of the mobile terminal to determine the plurality predetermined types of context data, wherein the monitoring includes sensing data from the plurality of sensors disposed within the mobile terminal; and

presenting a context view that provides at least two context categories respectively associated with the plurality predetermined types of context data and at least one context item within each of the at least two context categories, wherein each of the at least one context items is related to a period of time; and

receiving selection of a period of time within the diary or calendar view for presenting the context view that is associated with the period of time.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the context view is presented in combination with a timeline view that provides at least two context categories respectively associated with the plurality predetermined types of context data and at least one context item within each of the at least two context categories associated with a period of time within the timeline view.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the at least two context categories are chosen from the group consisting of terminal location, short-range communication devices encountered, location characteristics, and terminal movement.

21. A method of claim 12, further comprising:

monitoring the external environment of the mobile terminal to determine the plurality predetermined types of context data, wherein the monitoring includes sensing data from the plurality of sensors disposed within the mobile terminal;

presenting the current monitored context data in user-accessible form on a display of the mobile terminal; and

updating the context data on the display when there is a change in the mobile terminal environment;

wherein the updating further defines a change in the mobile terminal environment as chosen from the group consisting of detection of an external context data source; and

acknowledging the disappearance of a signal from a detected external context data source.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the monitoring the external mobile terminal environment to determine the plurality predetermined types of context data further includes receiving one or more context data from an external context data source.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the presenting the monitored context data in user-accessible form on a display of the mobile terminal further comprises presenting the monitored context data on an idle screen mode.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the presenting the monitored context data in user-accessible form on a display of the mobile terminal further comprises presenting the monitored context data on a ticker bar mode that scrolls monitored context data.

25. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus embedded in a mobile terminal to at least perform the following steps:

sensing, via a plurality of sensors in the mobile terminal, from one or more external sensors in proximity of the mobile terminal, or a combination thereof, a plurality types of sensed data;

providing a sensor application program interface (API) for processing the sensed data into one or more context atoms relating to a plurality predetermined types of context data, wherein each context atom comprises an entity having an associated name, value, source, and date, and the plurality predetermined types of context data includes one or more events, one or more activities, one or more media objects generated at the mobile terminal, or a combination thereof;

initiating a storage of the context atoms and a context API in the mobile terminal for allowing one or more user applications to access the context data;

presenting on a display of the mobile terminal some of the context atoms and relating predetermined types of context data in the manner of a diary or calendar; and

providing a script engine within the mobile terminal that is configured to initiate a storage of and to execute one or more context rules for modifying one or more of the context atoms, creating one or more other context atoms, or a combination thereof, the script engine further initiating a storage of one or more object-class-based executable code defining one or more conditions of the context rules and one or more actions to be performed when the conditions are satisfied.