System and method for control and management of resources for consumers of information

• US 9,210,528 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2010
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sensoriant, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tksn Holdings, LLC
• Inventors: Naqvi, Shamim A.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US12/804,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20140295804A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,966 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/452.1, 455/550.1, 455/422.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3223 Realising banking transactions through M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/34 using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4016 involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing
• 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: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 : Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices

Abstract

A system and method is provided for using information broadcast by devices and resources in the immediate vicinity of a mobile device, or by sensors located within the mobile device itself, to ascertain and make a determination of the immediate environment and state of the mobile device. This determination may be used to control and manage the actions that the device is asked to carry out by or on behalf of the user.

Claims

1. A telecommunications system, comprising:

a plurality of user devices, the user devices comprising wireless mobile devices configured to monitor available resources in proximity to the user devices and configured to dynamically maintain a resource registry of one or more available external resources and transmit the resource registry to a service provider wherein the user devices include one or more sensors for identifying a physical device environment for storing physical device environment information in the registry, the plurality of user devices configured to maintain capabilities lists of user device attributes and configured to transmit the resource registry information to the service provider during a home location register location update;

a service delivery platform associated with the service provider in communication with one or more of the plurality of user devices and a plurality of resource profiles associated with one or more of the plurality of user devices and configured to dynamically maintain the resource profiles of one or more of the plurality of user devices based on the resource registry information and configured to allow access to resources based on the resource profiles wherein the service delivery platform is operably coupled to one or more active databases associated with the profiles;

a resource environment map defined with the resource profiles of the plurality of user devices for access based on physical device environment and making the external resources available; and

a rules-based recognition unit in communication with the service delivery platform configured to dynamically match access policies of the user devices, configuring the resources available to the user devices in accordance with the resource profiles using matching rules for comparing access policies with the user devices resource environment map.

2. A telecommunications system for wireless mobile communications comprising:

a wireless mobile device comprising;

an environment sensor for detecting external environment conditions concerning dynamically available resources surrounding and in proximity to the wireless mobile device and for generating and broadcasting periodic and triggered updated information about the dynamically available resources from the wireless mobile device; and

an internal sensor for detecting conditions of the wireless mobile device and for generating and broadcasting periodic and triggered updated information about the conditions of the wireless mobile device and identification information for identifying the wireless mobile device and its end user from the wireless mobile device;

a rules-based recognition unit comprising resource profiles and access policies matching rules that match updated information generated by the wireless mobile device with the resource profiles to decide if there is a match between a resource profile and the information generated by the wireless mobile device; and

a service delivery platform in communication with the wireless mobile device and the rules-based recognition unit that receives broadcasts of information generated from the wireless mobile device, that communicates with the recognition unit in response to receiving broadcasted information to determine if the received information matches a resource profile, and that is configured to allow access to a resource where the information from the wireless mobile device matches a resource profile.

3. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein the resource profiles in the rules-based recognition unit further comprise informational attributes used in operation of peripherals and applications related to the wireless mobile device.

4. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein the service delivery platform further communicates with the recognition unit in response to receiving broadcasted information from a source other than the wireless mobile device to determine if received information matches a resource profile.

5. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein the internal sensor detects user device orientation data and user device temperature data.

6. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 further comprising a plurality of wireless mobile devices.

7. The telecommunications system recited in claim 6 wherein the service delivery platform further comprises a resource map that contains environment maps of resources available to the users of the plurality of wireless mobile devices, wherein the resource profiles are external to the recognition unit and are for the plurality of wireless mobile devices and further comprise particularized rules for making those resources available, wherein the recognition unit contains matching rules for comparing the access policies to the wireless mobile device environment maps, and wherein an apps database recommends particular apps to a user based on the environment and resource maps.

8. The telecommunications system recited in claim 7 wherein the service delivery platform further comprises one or more home location register databases that hold location information for registered wireless mobile devices.

9. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein the wireless mobile device further comprises a resource registry that contains a capabilities list for each resource available to the wireless mobile device wherein the capabilities list contains an identification number of the resource and the informational attributes available to applications.

10. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein one of the wireless mobile device and the service delivery platform further comprises a resource monitor that monitors what devices or resources have become available or unavailable to the wireless mobile device.

11. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein one or more commands are transmitted from the service delivery platform to the wireless mobile device in response to a recognition unit rule match to activate an application on the wireless mobile device.

12. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein the one or more commands transmitted to the wireless mobile device control wireless mobile device directly.

13. The telecommunications system recited in claim 2 wherein the one or more commands transmitted to the wireless mobile device include a text message.

14. A telecommunications system for managing peripheral resources comprising:

a wireless mobile device comprising;

an environment sensor for detecting external environment conditions concerning dynamically available resources available to the wireless mobile device and for generating and broadcasting periodic and triggered updated information about the dynamically available resources from the wireless mobile device;

an internal sensor for detecting conditions of the wireless mobile device and for generating and broadcasting periodic and triggered updated information about the conditions of the wireless mobile device and identification information for identifying the wireless mobile device and its end user from the wireless mobile device; and

a first peripheral device;

a rules-based recognition unit comprising resource profiles and access policies matching rules that match updated information generated by the wireless mobile device with the resource profiles to decide if there is a match between a resource profile and the information generated by the wireless mobile device;

a service delivery platform in communication with the wireless mobile device and the rules-based recognition unit that receives broadcasts of information generated from the wireless mobile device, that communicates with the recognition unit in response to receiving broadcasted information to determine if the received information matches a resource profile, that communicates with the recognition unit in response to receiving broadcasted information from a source other than the wireless mobile device to determine if the received information matches a resource profile, and that transmits one or more commands to the wireless mobile device if the received information matches a resource profile; and

a second peripheral device of the same type as the first peripheral device in communication with the wireless mobile device wherein in response to the one or more commands transmitted from the wireless mobile device the second peripheral device replaces the first peripheral device as a used resource.

15. The telecommunications system recited in claim 14 wherein the resource profiles in the rules-based recognition unit further comprise informational attributes used in operation of peripherals and applications related to the wireless mobile device.

16. The telecommunications system recited in claim 14 wherein the internal sensor detects wireless mobile device orientation data and wireless mobile device temperature data.

17. The telecommunications system recited in claim 14 further comprising a plurality of wireless mobile devices and wherein the service delivery platform further comprises a resource map that contains environment maps of resources available to the users of the plurality of wireless mobile devices, wherein the resource profiles are external to the recognition unit and are for the plurality of wireless mobile devices and further comprise particularized rules for making those resources available, wherein the recognition unit contains matching rules for comparing the access policies to the wireless mobile device environment maps, and wherein an apps database recommends particular apps to a mobile based on the environment and resource maps.

18. The telecommunications system recited in claim 17 wherein the service delivery platform further comprises one or more home location register databases that hold location information for registered wireless mobile devices.

19. The telecommunications system recited in claim 14 wherein the wireless mobile device further comprises a resource registry that contains a capabilities list for each resource available to the wireless mobile device wherein the capabilities list contains an identification number of the resource and the informational attributes available to applications and wherein one of the wireless mobile device and the service delivery platform further comprises a resource monitor that monitors what devices or resources have become available or unavailable to the wireless mobile device.

20. The telecommunications system recited in claim 14 wherein the one or more commands transmitted to the wireless mobile device are used to activate an application on the wireless mobile device, control the wireless mobile device directly, and display a text message.