Application spawning responsive to communication

• US 9,712,472 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2015
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Suresh, Sandeep, Rubin, Darryl E., Mital, Vijay, Abraham, Robin, Anuar, Nizam, Poozhiyil, Suraj T.
• Primary Examiner(s): SERRAO, RANODHI N
• Application Number:
  US14/791,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20170005970A1
• Time in Patent Office: 747 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4494 data driven
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1042 using topology management mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

The automatic spawning of application in response to detected content in other communications. Such application spawning has the effect of enriching the original communication with the additional functionality of applications that accomplish and supplement the original communication. Such application spawning may be automatic, and responsive to monitoring of the content of the communication. Upon detecting that the content of the communication has satisfied summoning criteria, the application is summoned on a hardware entity associated with one or more of the participants in the communication. This may be accomplished while the communication is still ongoing.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processor; and

one or more storage device having stored executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processor, the stored executable instructions including;

a monitoring module that is configured, when executed by the one or more processor, to monitor communications between communication participants utilizing at least two hardware entities associated with the communication participants;

a detection module that is configured, when executed by the one or more processor, to detect when one or more portion of the content within the communications of the monitoring module satisfy one or more summoning criteria or one or more splitting criteria; and

a summoning module, when executed by the one or more processor, that is configured to respond to the detection module detecting that the one or more portion of the content within the communications satisfies the one or more summoning criteria, by causing an application instance to be instantiated and operated upon at least one hardware entity associated with at least one participant in the network communication;

the computer-executable instructions also being configured to detect whether the one or more portion of the content within the communication satisfies the one or more splitting criteria or the one or more merging criteria and to at least merge the application instance with at least one other application instance on the at least one hardware entity in response to a detection that the one or more portion of the content satisfy the one or more merging criteria or to split the application instance in response to a detection that the one or more portion of the content satisfy the one or more splitting criteria.

2. The system in accordance with claim 1, the monitored communications between network communications and the communication participants being remote participants.

3. The system in accordance with claim 2, the network communications comprising at least one telephone call.

4. The system in accordance with claim 2, the network communications comprising at least one instant message.

5. The system in accordance with claim 2, the network communications comprising at least one e-mail.

6. The system in accordance with claim 2, the network communication being text communication.

7. The system in accordance with claim 1, the application being a transformation chain application.

8. A computer-implemented method for spawning operation of an application in response to communication between participants, the method comprising:

an act of monitoring at least one communication between at least two participants utilizing at least two hardware entities;

in response to the act of monitoring, an act of detecting that one or more portion of the content within the communication satisfies one or more summoning criteria;

in response to the act of detecting, an act of automatically causing an application instance to be instantiated and operated upon at least one hardware entity associated with at least one of the participants in the at least one communication; and

further in response to the act of monitoring, detecting whether the one or more portion of the content within the at least one communication satisfies one or more splitting criteria or one or more merging criteria,

wherein upon detecting that the one or more portion of the content satisfy the one or more splitting criteria, the application instance is split between a plurality of the at least two hardware entities and wherein upon detecting that the one or more portion of the content satisfy the one or more merging criteria, the application instance is merged with at least one other application instance on the at least one hardware entity.

9. The method in accordance with claim 8, the communication being an oral conversation.

10. The method in accordance with claim 8, the communication being a network communication, and the participants being remote participants.

11. The method in accordance with claim 10, the network communication comprising a telephone call.

12. The method in accordance with claim 10, the network communication comprising instant messaging.

13. The method in accordance with claim 10, the network communication comprising e-mail.

14. The method in accordance with claim 10, the network communication being text communication.

15. The method in accordance with claim 10, the at least one network communication comprising a plurality of network communications.

16. The method in accordance with claim 8, the application being a transformation chain application.

17. The method in accordance with claim 8, the method further comprising:

detecting that the one or more portion of the content within the at least one communication satisfies the one or more splitting criteria; and

in response to the detecting, an act of automatically causing the instantiated application to be split between the plurality of hardware entities associated with a plurality of participants in the at least one communication.

18. The method in accordance with claim 8, the one or more summoning criteria being that the detected portion is an explicit instruction from a participant to summon the application.

19. The method in accordance with claim 8, the one or more summoning criteria being that the detected portion is regarding a topic that the application provides information about.

20. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices having thereon one or more computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of the computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

an act of monitoring at least one communication between at least two participants utilizing at least two hardware entities associated with the at least two participants;

in response to the act of monitoring, an act of detecting that one or more portion of the content within the communication satisfies one or more summoning criteria;

in response to the act of detecting, an act of automatically causing an application instance to be instantiated and operated upon at least one hardware entity associated with at least one of the participants in the communication; and

the computer-executable instructions being configured to detect whether the one or more portion of the content within the communication satisfies one or more splitting criteria or one or more merging criteria,

the computer-executable instructions being further configured to;

split the application instance between a plurality of the at least two hardware entities in response to a detection that the one or more portion of the content satisfy the one or more splitting criteria, and

to merge the application instance with at least one other application instance on the at least one hardware entity in response to a detection that the one or more portion of the content satisfy the one or more merging criteria.

21. The computer program product in accordance with claim 20,

the act of monitoring performed by a monitoring module;

the act of detecting performed by a detection module; and

the act of summoning performed by a summoning module.