Generation of a context-enriched message including a message component and a contextual attribute

• US 9,166,823 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2009
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Buckyball Mobile, Inc., U Owe Me, Inc.
• Original Assignee: U Owe Me, Inc.
• Inventors: Karmarkar, Amit Vishram
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu, Jinsong
• Assistant Examiner(s): D AGOSTA, STEPHEN M
• Application Number:
  US12/422,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20090215479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,381 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/403, 455/500, 455/575.9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

Messaging Service Plus Context Data. A message of a specified mobile device communications protocol is parsed. The message is analyzed to identify a message data. A signal associated with the message is evaluated to determine a context data. The context data provides a contextual attribute of the message. The message data is algorithmically associated with the context data. Further, the other message includes the message data and the context data. A context enhancement data is determined to enrich a meaning of the context data. The context enhancement data is acquired from a database. The other message may be generated. The other message includes the message data, the context data and context enhancement data.

Claims

1. A method of a messaging service server comprising:

parsing a message generated by a mobile device with a messaging service server;

identifying a message component of the message;

algorithmically determining a contextual attribute of the mobile device related to the message component;

deriving a context data from the contextual attribute, wherein the context data describes an environmental condition or a physical event associated with the mobile device that originated the message component;

algorithmically associating the message component with the context data;

generating a context-enriched message comprising the message component and the context data;

determining a context enhancement data to enrich a meaning of the context data; and

acquiring the context enhancement data from a database;

generating the context-enriched message comprising the message component, the context data and context enhancement data;

rendering the other message to enable at least one of the context data and the context

enhancement data to enhance the meaning of the message component with a user interface, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a graphical user interface device, an audio interface device and a haptic interface device;

algorithmically evaluating the message to determine a biometric context data as the contextual attribute of the mobile device related to the message component;

algorithmically associating the text data with the biometric context data;

generating the context-enriched message to correlate the text data with the biometric context data;

wherein the context enhancement data is acquired from a source other than a mobile device that originated the message component,

wherein the context enhancement data comprises at least one of a social network context data, a data retrieved from a third-party database and referent to another message context data,

wherein the context data a virtual condition-with the mobile device that originated the message component,

wherein the message component comprises at least one of a text data of a short messaging service and a media data of a multimedia messaging service, and

wherein the context data is algorithmically acquired by at least one of a global positioning device, a digital camera, a digital recorder, a radio frequency-identification receiver, a wireless network receiver, an accelerometer an a gyroscope.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

manually specifying the message data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a machine is caused to perform the method of claim 1 when a set of instructions in a form of a machine-readable medium is executed by the machine.

4. A system comprising:

a communications server;

a parser module of the communications server that parses a message of a specified communications protocol;

a text analysis module that determines meaning of a message data;

a context determiner module that determines a contextual attribute of at least one of the message data and a device that generated or received the message, and that derives a context data from the contextual attribute, and wherein the contextual attribute is related to the meaning of the message data, and wherein the context data describes an environmental condition or a physical event associated with the mobile device that originated the message component;

a context enhancement module that determines a context enhancement data to enrich a meaning of the context data and that acquires the context enhancement data from a database;

a collation module that associates the message data with the context data; and

a message module that generates another message comprising the message data, the context data and the context enhancement data,

wherein the context analysis module processes the context data to enable a presentation of the context data with a user interface,

wherein the message module modifies the message to render the context data and the context enhancement data with the user interface;

wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a graphical user interface device, an audio interface device and a haptic interface device and

wherein the context data comprises at least one of a global positioning system context data, an image context data, an audio context data, a video context data, a bar code context data, a radio frequency-identification context data, a compass sensor context data, a gyroscope context data, a wireless network context data, an accelerometer context data, a contacts list context data and a biometric context data;

and algorithmically evaluating the message to determine a biometric context data as the contextual attribute of the mobile device related to the message component;

algorithmically associating the text data with biometric context data;

generating the context-enriched data to correlate the text data with biometric context data;

wherein the context enhancement data is acquired from a source other than a mobile device that originated the message component;

wherein the context enhancement data comprises at least one of social networking context data, a data retrieved from a third-party database and referent to another message con text data;

wherein the context data a virtual condition with the mobile device that originated the message component;

wherein the message component comprises at least one of a text data of a short messaging service and a media data of a multimedia messaging service.

5. The system of claim 4:

further comprising a feedback module that determine a manually specified text of the message, and that identifies a clarifying context data related to the manually specified text, and that updates the message to correlate the manually specified text with the clarifying context data, and

wherein the message data comprises at least one of a short messaging service message and a multimedia messaging service message.

6. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a message with a mobile device;

algorithmically determining a contextual attribute of the mobile device relevant to a message component, and wherein the contextual attribute comprises an attribute of an environmental attribute or a physical attribute of the mobile device that originated the message component; and

linking the message component and the contextual attribute in a multimedia messaging system {MMS) message;

wherein the link of the message component and the contextual attribute comprises embedding a hyperlink in a graphical rendering of the message component, and

wherein the hyperlink references a document generated by a web mapping service application;

determining a context enhancement data to enrich a meaning of the context data and acquiring the context enhancement data from a database;

generating the context-enriched message comprising the message component, the context data and context enhancement data;

rendering the other message to enable at least one of the context data and the context enhancement data to enhance the meaning of the message component with a user interface, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a graphical user interface device, an audio device and a haptic device;

algorithmically evaluating the message to determine a biometric contex data as the contextual attribute of the mobile device related to the message component;

algorithmically associating the text data with biometric context data;

generating the context-enriched data to correlate the text data with biometric context data;

wherein the context enhancement data is acquired from a source other than a mobile device that originated the message component;

wherein the context enhancement data comprises at least one of social networking context data, a data retrieved from a third-party database and referent to another message con text data;

wherein the context data a virtual condition with the mobile device that originated the message component;

wherein the message component comprises at least one of a text data of a short messaging service and a media data of a multimedia messaging service;

wherein the context data is algorithmically acquired by at least one of a global positioning device, a digital camera, a digital recorder, a radio frequency-identification received, a wireless network receiver and an accelerometer and a gyroscope.