Displaying relevant information on wearable computing devices

• US 9,710,138 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2016
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Jr., John E., Lingafelt, C. Steven, Boss, Gregory J., Jones, Andrew R., Krystek, Paul N., McConnell, Kevin C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peaches, Randy
• Application Number:
  US15/342,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 257 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges H04M3/00; prepayment telephone coin boxes H04M17/00; current supply arrangements H04M19/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44226 on social networks
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 : for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 : Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication

Abstract

A wearable computing device receives user preferences, wherein the user preferences include information detailing one or more types of information to display based on one or more criteria being satisfied. The wearable computing device determines information to display on the wearable computing device based on the user preferences. The wearable computing device displays the determined information.

Claims

1. A computer program product for determining information to display to a user of a wearable computing device, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to identify a current time and a current location of a wearable computing device using a global positioning system module included in the wearable computing device;

program instructions to reference a calendar associated with a wearer of the wearable computing device to determine whether an event is associated with the current time;

based on determining that an event is associated with the current time, program instructions to determine whether the wearable computing device is within a first threshold distance of the event;

based on determining that the wearable computing device is within the first threshold distance of the event, program instructions to obtain and display information relevant to the event;

based on determining that the wearable computing device is not within the first threshold distance of the event, program instructions to identify one or more users within a second threshold distance of the wearable computing device;

program instructions to communicate with a camera module of the wearable computing device to capture live video footage of the one or more users;

program instructions to identify a speaker of the one or more users by comparing one or more snapshots of the live video footage of the one or more users to templates of speaking and non-speaking users;

program instructions to determine an identity of the speaker by comparing the one or more snapshots to users of one or more social media platforms;

program instructions to determine whether the speaker is associated with the wearer on at least one of the one or more social media platforms; and

based on determining that the speaker is associated with the wearer on the at least one of the one or more social media platforms, program instructions to identify and display one or more commonalities between the speaker and the wearer detailed by the at least one social media platform.