Quantifying frustration via a user interface

• US 9,547,408 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2013
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vibrant Licensing LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Bromer, Nicholas S.
• Primary Examiner(s): ULRICH, NICHOLAS S
• Application Number:
  US14/069,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20140059446A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

Described herein are methods, apparatuses, systems, programs, etc., to modify a user interface implemented in a communication network associated with a plurality of mobile devices. In one embodiment, a mobile device may sense a user'"'"'s mood data that indicates a quantified frustration parameter based at least in part on interaction of a user with a user interface. The user interface may be updated accordingly.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a communication network, comprising:

receiving, at a mobile service provider server, mode data and mood data that is associated with one or more user interface modes operating on a mobile device, wherein the mood data indicates a quantified frustration parameter, and the mood data is a composite value of a plurality of measurements of the frustration parameter when a user interacts with one of the one or more user interface modes operating on the mobile device;

identifying, by the mobile service provider server, one or more user interface modes that are respectively associated with one or more frustration parameters, based at least in part on the mood data and the mode data; and

generating, by the mobile service provider server, an updated user interface for the mobile device, based at least in part on the identification of the one or more user interface modes that are respectively associated with the one or more frustration parameters.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by the mobile service provider server, one of the one or more user interface modes based on the mode data that identifies at least two distinguishable input operations detected over a time interval.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising,

sending, by the mobile service provider server, at least a portion of the updated user interface to the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the mood data associated with one or more user interface modes comprises a value adjusted based at least in part on a metric indicating a baseline behavior of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein respective one or more user interface modes includes a group of one or more functions and associated actions, and wherein measurements of the mood data are taken from one or more measured time between taps, measured time of an input sweep, measured pressure of taps, measured pressure of an input sweep, and detected verbal expletives.

6. A method implemented in a mobile device associated with a communication network, comprising:

sensing, by the mobile device, mood data that indicates a quantified user frustration parameter based on interaction of a user with one or more user interface modes operating on the mobile device, wherein the mood data comprises a composite value based on a plurality of measurements of the frustration parameter when the user interacts with one of the one or more user interface modes operating on the mobile device,

associating, by the mobile device, the mood data with mode data, wherein the mode data indicates the one or more user interface modes, and

identifying, by the mobile device, one or more user interface modes that are respectively associated with one or more user frustrations, based at least in part on the mood data and the mode data.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

transferring, by the mobile device, to a mobile service provider at least one of the mood data or the mode data.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising, identifying, by the mobile device, one of the one or more user interface modes based on the mode data identifying at least two distinguishable input operations detected over a time interval.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the time interval begins at a first time subsequent to execution of a first input operation of the at least two distinguishable input operations and ends at a second time subsequent to a second input operation of the at least two distinguishable input operations.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising, associating, by the mobile device, the mood data with an immediately preceding user interface mode.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising, transferring, by the mobile device, to a mobile service provider the mode data identifying at least two distinguishable input operations indicating the user interface mode.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein respective one or more user interface modes includes a group of one or more functions and transfers between the functions.

13. An apparatus, comprising:

a mobile device associated with a communication network, the mobile device configured to;

sense mood data that indicates a quantified user frustration parameter based on interaction of a user with one or more user interface modes operating on the mobile device, wherein the mood data comprises a composite value based on a plurality of measurements of the frustration parameter when the user interacts with one of the one or more user interface modes;

associate the mood data with mode data, wherein the mode data indicates one or more user interface modes; and

identify one or more user interface modes that are respectively associated with one or more user frustrations based at least in part on the mood data and the mode data.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the mobile device is further configured to:

transfer to a mobile service provider at least one of the mood data or the mode data.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify one of the one or more user interface modes based on the mode data that identifies at least two distinguishable input operations detected over a time interval.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the time interval begins at a first time subsequent to execution of a first input operation of the at least two distinguishable input operations and ends at a second time subsequent to a second input operation of the at least two distinguishable input operations.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the mobile device is further configured to associate the mood data with an immediately preceding user interface mode.

18. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the mobile device is further configured to transfer to a mobile service provider the mode data identifying at least two distinguishable input operations indicating the user interface mode.