Context-based message creation via user-selectable icons

• US 9,961,026 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2013
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, Glen J., Brotman, Ryan S., Huang, Wen-Ling M., Fernandez, Francisco Javier, Sherman, Jamie, Vembar, Deepak S., Muse, Philip, Durham, Lenitra M., Denman, Pete A., Raffa, Giuseppe Beppe, Nagisetty, Ramune
• Primary Examiner(s): Shiberou, Mahelet
• Application Number:
  US14/355,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20150222576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,643 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44 Arrangements for executing specific programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services

Abstract

Technologies for generating a text message from user-selectable icons include a wearable computing device that determines a context associated with the wearable computing device. The wearable computing device determines user-selectable icons from predetermined user-selectable icons based on the context associated with the wearable computing device. Each of the user-selectable icons may have one or more textual meanings associated therewith for text message generation. The determined user-selectable icons may be displayed on a display of the wearable computing device.

Claims

1. A wearable computing device to generate a text message from user-selectable icons, the wearable computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memory devices having stored therein a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wearable computing device to;

determine a context associated with the wearable computing device;

determine one or more user-selectable icons of a plurality of predefined user-selectable icons, wherein each of the plurality of predefined user-selectable icons has multiple textual meanings associated therewith for text message generation and wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to determine one or more user-selectable icons as a function of (i) the context associated with the wearable computing device and (ii) the multiple textual meanings associated with each user-selectable icon;

display the determined one or more user-selectable icons on a display of the wearable computing device;

receive a selection of a user-selectable icon displayed on the wearable computing device for text message generation;

determine, in response to the selection of the user-selectable icon, whether to display one or more user-selectable sub-icons based on the selected user-selectable icon; and

display, in response to a determination that the one or more user-selectable sub-icons are to be displayed, the one or more user-selectable sub-icons.

2. The wearable computing device of claim 1, further comprising at least one context sensor to capture context data indicative of the context of the wearable computing device;

and

wherein to determine the context associated with the wearable computing device comprises to determine the context based on the context data captured by the at least one context sensor.

3. The wearable computing device of claim 2, wherein the at least one context sensor comprises a location determination module to determine a location of the wearable computing device.

4. The wearable computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device to determine a context of a user of the wearable computing device;

and

wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to determine one or more user-selectable icons as a function of the context of the user.

5. The wearable computing device of claim 4, wherein to determine the context of the user of the wearable computing device comprises to:

(i) monitor communication messages accessible by the wearable computing device, (ii) analyze the communication messages to determine a probable textual meaning for a user-selectable icon of the plurality of predefined user-selectable icons, and (iii) recommend association of the probable textual meaning with the user-selectable icon.

6. The wearable computing device of claim 1, wherein to determine the context associated with the wearable computing device comprises to:

(i) determine a context of the wearable computing device, and (ii) determine a context of a user of the wearable computing device; and

wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to determine one or more user-selectable icons as a function of the context of the wearable computing device and the context of the user.

7. The wearable computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device to receive context data from a remote computing device, the received context data indicative of the context of a least one of the wearable computing device or a user of the wearable computing device;

and

wherein the icon recommendation module to determine the one or more user-selectable icons as a function of the received context data.

8. The wearable computing device of claim 1, further comprising a policy database, the policy database comprises one or more rules for the determination of the one or more user-selectable icons as a function of the context of the wearable computing device;

and

wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to compare the context of the wearable computing device to the one or more rules of the policy database.

9. The wearable computing device of claim 1, further comprising a policy database, the policy database comprises probability data computed for each of the one or more user-selectable icons, wherein the probability data is indicative of a probability that a user-selectable icon of the plurality of predefined user-selectable icons will be selected by a user based on one or more reference contexts;

and

wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to (i) compare the determined context associated with the wearable computing device to the one or more reference contexts, and (ii) select the one or more user-selectable icons based on the comparison.

10. The wearable computing device of claim 1, further comprising a policy database, wherein the policy database comprises one or more textual meanings associated with each of the one or more user-selectable icons based on the context of the wearable computing device;

and

wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device to;

(i) retrieve, in response to a receipt of the selected user-selectable icon, a textual meaning associated with the selected user-selectable icon from the policy database based on the context associated with the wearable computing device, and (ii) generate a text message based on the retrieved textual meaning associated with the selected user-selectable icon.

11. The wearable computing device of claim 10, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device to:

(i) determine whether another user-selectable icon displayed on the wearable computing device is selected, and (ii) retrieve another textual meaning associated with the another selected user-selectable icon from the policy database based on the context associated with the wearable computing device; and

wherein to generate the text message comprises to combine the retrieved textual meaning associated with the selected user-selectable icon and the retrieved another textual meaning associated with the another selected user-selectable icon.

12. The wearable computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device to:

receive, in response to the selection of the user-selectable icon, textual input from the wearable computing device, wherein the textual input is indicative of a textual meaning of the selected user-selectable icon;

associate the selected user-selectable icon with the received textual input; and

store the textual input associated with the selected user-selectable icon in a policy database, wherein the policy database comprises one or more textual meanings associated with each of the one or more user-selectable icons based on the context associated with the wearable computing device.

13. The wearable computing device of claim 1, further comprising a tactile map defined on the display of the wearable computing device, the tactile map to provide tactile feedback of the location of the determined one or more user-selectable icons displayed on the display.

14. The wearable computing device of claim 1, the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device to:

generate, in response to a receipt of the selected user-selectable icon, feedback to a user of the wearable computing device based on the selection of the user-selectable icon.

15. The wearable computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of predefined user-selectable icons comprises a plurality of user-selectable icons stored on the wearable computing device.

16. The wearable computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the wearable computing device receive a group textual meaning for a predefined user-selectable icon from a recipient computing device, the received group textual meaning for the predefined user-selectable icon is different from the textual meaning associated with the predefined user-selectable icon.

17. One or more non-transitory, machine readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed by a wearable computing device, cause the wearable computing device to:

determine a context associated with the wearable computing device;

determine one or more user-selectable icons of a plurality of predefined user-selectable icons, wherein each of the plurality of predefined user-selectable icons has multiple textual meanings associated therewith for text message generation and wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to determine one or more user-selectable icons as a function of (i) the context associated with the wearable computing device and (ii) the multiple textual meanings associated with each user-selectable icon;

display the determined one or more user-selectable icons on a display of the wearable computing device;

receive a selection of a user-selectable icon displayed on the wearable computing device for text message generation;

determine, in response to a selection of the user-selectable icon, whether to display one or more user-selectable sub-icons based on the selected user-selectable icon; and

display, in response to a determination that the one or more user-selectable sub-icons are to be displayed, the one or more user-selectable sub-icons.

18. The one or more non-transitory, machine readable media of claim 17, wherein to determine the context associated with the wearable computing device comprises to determine the context associated with the wearable computing device based on context data captured by at least one context sensor of the wearable computing device.

19. The one or more non-transitory, machine readable media of claim 17, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the wearable computing device to determine a context of a user of the wearable computing device;

and

wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to determine one or more user-selectable icons as a function of the context of the user.

20. The one or more non-transitory, machine readable media of claim 17, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the wearable computing device to:

retrieve, in response to a receipt of the selected user-selectable icon, a textual meaning associated with the selected user-selectable icon from a policy database based on the context associated with the wearable computing device, wherein the policy database comprises one or more textual meanings associated with each of the one or more user-selectable icons based on the context of the wearable computing device; and

generate a text message based on the retrieved textual meaning associated with the selected user-selectable icon.

21. The one or more non-transitory, machine readable media of claim 20, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the wearable computing device to:

determine whether another user-selectable icon displayed on the wearable computing device is selected;

retrieve another textual meaning associated with the another selected user-selectable icon from the policy database based on the context associated with the wearable computing device; and

wherein to generate the text message comprises to combine the retrieved textual meaning associated with the selected user-selectable icon and the retrieved another textual meaning associated with the another selected user-selectable icon.

22. The one or more non-transitory, machine readable media of claim 17, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the wearable computing device to:

receive, in response to a receipt of the selected user-selectable icon, textual input from the wearable computing device, wherein the textual input is indicative of a textual meaning of the selected user-selectable icon;

associate the selected user-selectable icon with the received textual input; and

store the textual input associated with the selected user-selectable icon in a policy database, wherein the policy database comprises one or more textual meanings associated with each of the one or more user-selectable icons based on the context associated with the wearable computing device.