Contextually-based automatic service offerings to users of machine system

US 10,142,276 B2
Filed: 02/27/2014
Issued: 11/27/2018
Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
Status: Active Grant

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1. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:

(a) causing an automatically repeated collecting by an automated machine system of automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the machine system having one or more processors, where the automatically updated, collected first user state indicating signals are indicative of at least one of a recent or current state of a first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system, the recent state being one that corresponds to at least one of;

(a.1) a state that was present no more than one month before the current state;

(a.2) a state that was present within a context-dependent temporal range defined by at least one of a currently active profile of the first user and a communal consensus node currently being touched by the first user; and

(a.3) a state that was present within a temporal range defined by a current user setting, the communal consensus node being a system maintained linking node that links to system defined further resources in accordance with consensus of a community of users of the system and is touchable by way of direct or indirect access thereto by the first user;

(b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and of which subset of plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the one or more likely current or recent contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system within a memory of the machine system, the subset of the determined to be currently active profiles being a subset having two or more of a larger set of selectable profiles of the first user that are maintained by the automated machine system;

(b2) causing the determined likely current or recent contextual states and the determined currently active profiles to be automatically repeatedly used as a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next active profiles and/or of next likely current or recent contextual states such that one or more current cognitive states of the first user can be determined with improved resolution;

(c) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of one or more currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user and/or a currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format for presenting at least one of such servicings, tools, offerings or suggestions, said automatically repeated second determining being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are the currently active profiles of the first user for respective ones of the likely current or recent contextual states of the first user; and

(d) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of at least one of the servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user;

wherein said automatically repeated first determining of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user is based on a previous determining by the method of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;

wherein said automatically repeated first determining of the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user is based on a current determination of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user, such that said feedback loop is formed; and

further wherein;

said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system are represented within the automated machine system as at least one of first points, nodes and sub-regions (first PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled context space defined within the memory of the machine system, wherein members of at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the context space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;

the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of second points, nodes and sub-regions (second PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled topic space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable topic definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the topic space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;

wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define context-associated members among the second PNOS'"'"'s;

the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of third points, nodes and sub-regions (third PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled additional space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable additional definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the additional space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;

wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s and/or of the second PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define topic-associated members and/or context-associated members among the third PNOS'"'"'s; and

the automatically repeatedly determined as likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user and the corresponding automatic providing thereof to the first user include at least one of;

(d.1) suggestions of topics and/or forums to be investigated by the first user, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, the suggested topics and/or forums being derived from at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system; and

(d.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, wherein identities of the suggested individual users or groups of users are derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system.

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Disclosed is a Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system that can inform users of cross-correlations between currently focused-upon topic or other nodes in a corresponding topic or other data-objects organizing space maintained by the system and various social entities monitored by the system. More specifically, one of the cross-correlations may be as between the top N now-hottest topics being focused-upon by a first social entity and the amounts of focus ‘heat’ that other social entities (e.g., friends and family) are casting on the same topics (or other subregions of other cognitive attention receiving spaces) in a relevant time period.

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1. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
- (a) causing an automatically repeated collecting by an automated machine system of automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the machine system having one or more processors, where the automatically updated, collected first user state indicating signals are indicative of at least one of a recent or current state of a first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system, the recent state being one that corresponds to at least one of;
  
  (a.1) a state that was present no more than one month before the current state;
  
  (a.2) a state that was present within a context-dependent temporal range defined by at least one of a currently active profile of the first user and a communal consensus node currently being touched by the first user; and
  
  (a.3) a state that was present within a temporal range defined by a current user setting, the communal consensus node being a system maintained linking node that links to system defined further resources in accordance with consensus of a community of users of the system and is touchable by way of direct or indirect access thereto by the first user;
  
  (b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and of which subset of plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the one or more likely current or recent contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system within a memory of the machine system, the subset of the determined to be currently active profiles being a subset having two or more of a larger set of selectable profiles of the first user that are maintained by the automated machine system;
  
  (b2) causing the determined likely current or recent contextual states and the determined currently active profiles to be automatically repeatedly used as a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next active profiles and/or of next likely current or recent contextual states such that one or more current cognitive states of the first user can be determined with improved resolution;
  
  (c) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of one or more currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user and/or a currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format for presenting at least one of such servicings, tools, offerings or suggestions, said automatically repeated second determining being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and being based on the automatically repeated first determinations of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are the currently active profiles of the first user for respective ones of the likely current or recent contextual states of the first user; and
  
  (d) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of at least one of the servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user;
  
  wherein said automatically repeated first determining of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user is based on a previous determining by the method of one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
  
  wherein said automatically repeated first determining of the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user is based on a current determination of which subset of the plural profiles of the first user are currently active profiles of the first user, such that said feedback loop is formed; and
  
  further wherein;
  
  said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system are represented within the automated machine system as at least one of first points, nodes and sub-regions (first PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled context space defined within the memory of the machine system, wherein members of at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the context space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the first PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
  
  the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of second points, nodes and sub-regions (second PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled topic space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable topic definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the topic space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
  
  wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the second PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define context-associated members among the second PNOS'"'"'s;
  
  the automated machine system further maintains and automatically repeatedly updates as at least one of third points, nodes and sub-regions (third PNOS'"'"'s) within a communally-controlled additional space defined within the memory of the machine system, a set of selectable additional definitions, wherein members of at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized within the additional space in accordance with automatically repeatedly updated communal sentiments of plural users of the automated machine system and wherein the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next;
  
  wherein at least some of the organized members of the at least one kind among the third PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked with at least some members of the first PNOS'"'"'s and/or of the second PNOS'"'"'s so as to thereby define topic-associated members and/or context-associated members among the third PNOS'"'"'s; and
  
  the automatically repeatedly determined as likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user and the corresponding automatic providing thereof to the first user include at least one of;
  
  (d.1) suggestions of topics and/or forums to be investigated by the first user, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, the suggested topics and/or forums being derived from at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system; and
  
  (d.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with, which said suggestions can be immediately pursued by user activation of the provided said suggestions, wherein identities of the suggested individual users or groups of users are derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system.
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- - 2. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one currently likely welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format is automatically selected based on a correspondingly determined likely current or recent contextual state of the first user, the said providing of the at least one of the servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user employing the at least one presentation format automatically selected based on a correspondingly determined likely current or recent contextual state and the at least one presentation format comprises:
    - (e.1) a first array of a presented two or more first items, the presented first items each respectively including at least one of a label, an icon and a sound, and each representing at least one of a respective social entity, or a project associated with the respective social entity or a context associated with the respective social entity; and
      
      (e.2) a second array of a presented two or more second items, the presented second items each respectively including at least one of a label, an icon and a sound, and each being respectively associated with a corresponding social entity and each indicating at least one of;
      
      (e.2a) points, nodes or sub-regions of a Cognitive Attention Receiving Space that is determined by the machine system to be receiving or to have received during a prespecified time period, attention from the corresponding social entity, where the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space is defined in the memory of the machine system and has at least one of respective points, nodes and sub-regions (respective PNOS'"'"'s), where the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space can be one of said communally-controlled context space, said communally-controlled topic space and said communally-controlled additional space; and
      
      (e.2b) a degree of corresponding attention determined by the machine system to have been cast by the corresponding social entity on corresponding ones of the points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space; and
      
      (e.2c) an identification of one or more chat or other forum participation opportunities associated with points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space that are determined by the machine system to be receiving or to have received during a prespecified time period, attention from the corresponding social entity; and
      
      (e.2d) an identification of one or more of non-chat, non-forum resources associated with points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space that are determined by the machine system to be receiving or to have received during a prespecified time period, attention from the corresponding social entity.
  - 3. The method of claim 2 wherein:
    - the indicated at least one of points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space that are indicated by respective ones of the two or more second items of the second array (e.2) include points, nodes or sub-regions of the communally-controlled topic space maintained by the automated machine system.
  - 4. The method of claim 2, wherein the points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space are indicated and the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space is represented by stored data that defines a hybrid of a communally-controlled contexts cross-associating space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system and at least one of:
    - the communally-controlled topic space;
      
      a keywords cross-associating space;
      
      a URLs cross-associating space;
      
      a meta-tags cross-associating space;
      
      a visual-items cross-associating space;
      
      a sound-related items cross-associating space;
      
      a social entities cross-associating space;
      
      a biological states cross-associating space; and
      
      a social dynamics cross-associating space.
  - 5. The method of claim 2, wherein:
    - the indicated at least one of points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space that are indicated by respective ones of the two or more second items of the second array (e.2) include points, nodes or sub-regions of a communally-controlled hybrid context-and-other space that is controlled by communal-consensus, maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system.
  - 6. The method of claim 5, wherein:
    - the hybrid context-and-other space is one of;
      
      a hybrid context and topic space,a hybrid context and keyword space,a hybrid context and recently focused-upon sub-portions of content space,a hybrid context and URL space,a hybrid context and social dynamics space, anda hybrid context and emotional behavior state space.
  - 7. The method of claim 2, wherein the automatically selected presentation format is displayed by way of a first display or another to-user information outputting device and the method further comprises:
    - (e.3) causing presentation by way of the first display or the other to-user information outputting device of a third array of two or more third items, the presented third items each respectively including at least one of a label, an icon and a sound, and each representing at least one of a respective chat or other forum participation session or opportunity to join into the same or another resource corresponding to at least one of the points, nodes or sub-regions of the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space that is determined by an attention modeling system of the automated machine system to be receiving or to have received during a prespecified time period, attention from a corresponding social entity associated with one of the first items of the first array.
  - 8. The method of claim 7, wherein:
    - the presented first array is displayed as being distributed linearly along a first direction within a display that displays the corresponding two or more first items and the two or more first items of the first array are sorted along the first direction according to a predetermined sorting criteria; and
      
      the displayed third array is distributed linearly within the display and the corresponding of two or more third items of the third array are sorted to correspond to the sorting of the two or more first items of the first array.
  - 9. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one currently desired-by-the-first user presentation format is employed, where the employed presentation format is automatically selected based on a correspondingly determined likely current or recent contextual state of the first user and comprises:
    - (e.1) a presented first array that is displayed as a corresponding first grouping within a display that displays a corresponding two or more first items and where the presented two or more first items of the first array are sorted within the first grouping according to a predetermined sorting criteria; and
      
      (e.2) a presented second array of two or more second items that is displayed as a corresponding second grouping within the display and where the presented and corresponding two or more second items of the second array are sorted to correspond to the sorting of the two or more first items of the first array.
  - 10. The method of claim 9, wherein:
    - the displayed second array is disposed adjacent to the displayed first array.
  - 11. The method of claim 9, wherein:
    - the displayed second array extends substantially at right angles to an extension direction of the displayed first array.
  - 12. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one currently likely welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format is automatically selected based on a correspondingly determined likely current or recent contextual state that is part of the communally-controlled context space that is controlled by communal consensus of plural users of the automated machine system, maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system and the at least one presentation format is employed and comprises:
    - one or more stacks of card-like objects and the method further comprises;
      
      (e) empowering the first user to navigate through the one or more stacks of card-like objects.
  - 13. The method of claim 12, wherein:
    - each card-like object has a corresponding, user-activatable join-now virtual button or equivalent area associated therewith that is activatable by a user click, tap or the like such that the first user is substantially immediately added to a list of forum-joining users upon the first user clicking, tapping or the like-wise activating the join-now area.
  - 14. The method of claim 12, wherein:
    - each card-like object has a corresponding, user-activatable expansion tool activating virtual button or equivalent area associated therewith that is activatable by a user click, tap or the like such that the first user is substantially immediately presented with additional information about the corresponding chat or other forum participation opportunity, where the additional information includes at least one of;
      
      information about other users who have already joined or have been presented with a current opportunity to join the same forum;
      
      information about a governance style of the forum; and
      
      information identifying the corresponding one or more points, nodes or sub-regions in the Cognitive Attention Receiving Space (CARS) with which the forum is logically linked.
  - 15. The method of claim 12, wherein:
    - the card-like objects are stacked according different types of forums such as real time video chat room versus non-video chat room versus slower than real time blog or other; and
      
      at least one of the displayed card-like objects shows a transcripted portion of an exchange that has recently taken place in the corresponding forum.
  - 16. The machine-implemented method of claim 1 and further comprising:
    - (e) in addition to maintaining in the system memory of the automated machine system, representations of one or more Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces (CARSs) including the communally-controlled topic space and the communally-controlled additional space also maintaining in the system memory representations of cognitive-sense-representing clustering center points, where the PNOS'"'"'s are hierarchically and/or spatial-wise organized and are clustered together relative to one another and relative to one of the cognitive-sense-representing clustering center points and the PNOS'"'"'s are logically linked so as to thereby be cross-associated, one relative to a next, the CARSs being controlled by communal consensus of plural users of the automated machine system and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
      
      (f) determining for each respective member of a specified group of said plurality of users, which if any of the system-maintained points, nodes or sub-regions of at least one of the system-maintained Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces (CARSs) are receiving individualized attention giving energies from the respective member; and
      
      (g) using the determination of which points, nodes or sub-regions are receiving said respective individualized attention giving energies to determine which if any of the system-maintained points, nodes or sub-regions of the same system-maintained Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces (CARSs) are receiving at least a majority of the group'"'"'s attention giving energies and if so to what extent.
  - 17. The machine-implemented method of claim 16 and further comprising:
    - (h) using the determination of which points, nodes or sub-regions are receiving at least a majority of the group'"'"'s attention giving energies as well as using the determination of which points, nodes or sub-regions are receiving respective individualized attention giving energies to other extents to thereby determine degrees of deviance between where the individualized energies are focused and where the group'"'"'s collective energies are focused.
  - 18. The machine-implemented method of claim 17 and further comprising:
    - (i) using the determined degrees of deviance to identify members of the group who are substantially focused-upon same points, nodes or sub-regions as where the group'"'"'s collective majority of energies are focused.
  - 19. The machine-implemented method of claim 17 and further comprising:
    - (i) using the determined degrees of deviance to identify members of the group who are not substantially focused-upon same points, nodes or sub-regions as where the group'"'"'s collective majority of energies are focused.
  - 20. The machine-implemented method of claim 16 wherein the one or more Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces (CARSs) further include at least one of:
    - a keywords cross-associating space;
      
      a recently focused-upon sub-portions of content space;
      
      a URLs cross-associating space;
      
      a meta-tags cross-associating space;
      
      a contexts cross-associating space;
      
      a visual-items cross-associating space;
      
      a sound-related items cross-associating space;
      
      a social entities cross-associating space;
      
      a biological states cross-associating space;
      
      a hybrid cognitions cross-associating space; and
      
      a social dynamics cross-associating space.
  - 21. The machine-implemented method of claim 16 wherein:
    - the determining for each respective member as to which if any of the system-maintained points, nodes or sub-regions of at least one of the system-maintained CARSs are receiving attention giving energies from the respective member includes determining an extent of attention giving energies cast by the respective member for at least one of the points, nodes or sub-regions.
  - 22. The method of claim 1 wherein:
    - the presented one or more suggestions of events the first user is determined to likely currently welcome or desire to participate in based on at least one of the likely current or recent contextual states of the first user involve at least one of;
      
      a facility at which at least one of foods and beverages may be consumed;
      
      a facility having practical seating capacity for an expected number of real life (ReL) participants expected to attend the pre-planned or being-planned meeting;
      
      a facility having multimedia resources expected to be used in the pre-planned or being-planned meeting;
      
      a facility having non-multimedia resources expected to be used in the pre-planned or being-planned meeting; and
      
      a pre-meeting or post-meeting housing facility at which one or more of the potential participants may stay respectively before or after the meeting.
  - 23. The method of claim 22 wherein:
    - at least one of the presented one or more suggestions includes an event suggestion of an event the first user may desire to participate in where the presented event suggestion is further accompanied by at least one of;
      
      an indication of which potential participants are nearby in a practical sense for timely attending the pre-planned or being-planned event and an indication of a respective distance and/or respective travel time that separates one or more respective ones of the potential participants from a corresponding one of the one or more of the corresponding event venues; and
      
      an indication of potential and practicably available first transport mechanisms by way of which one or more respective ones of the potential participants can timely commute to the pre-planned or being-planned event and an indication of potential and practicably available second transport mechanisms by way of which one or more respective ones of the potential participants can timely commute to a post-event next destination.
  - 24. The machine-implemented method of claim 1 and further comprising:
    - (e) causing an automated generation for use by a potential one or more of the users of the machine system of a map and/or of a first array that presents one or more event-related first items, the generation of the map and/or of the first array being based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of at least the first user, the presented first items each respectively representing a planned or proposed event place and/or another event-enabling or event-facilitating resource which is or may be available for use by participants of the planned or being-proposed event; and
      
      (f) causing an automated inclusion as part of the generated map and/or as an automatically presented second array of one or more event-related second items, the presented second items each respectively representing a potential participant for the pre-planned or being-planned event.
  - 25. The machine-implemented method of claim 24 wherein:
    - the presented one or more event-related first items include at least one of;
      
      a facility at which at least one of foods and beverages may be consumed;
      
      a facility having practical seating capacity for an expected number of real life (ReL) participants expected to attend the pre-planned or being-planned event;
      
      a facility having multimedia resources expected to be used in the pre-planned or being-planned event;
      
      a facility having non-multimedia resources expected to be used in the pre-planned or being-planned event; and
      
      a pre-meeting or post-meeting housing facility at which one or more of the potential participants may stay respectively before or after the event.
  - 26. The machine-implemented method of claim 25 wherein:
    - the presented one or more meeting-related second items include at least one of;
      
      an indication of which potential participants are nearby in a practical sense for timely attending a respective pre-planned or being-planned meeting at respective locations of the presented one or more meeting-related first items, and optionally an indication of a respective distance and/or respective travel time that separates one or more respective ones of the potential participants from corresponding locations of the one or more meeting-related first items; and
      
      an indication of potential and practicably available first transport mechanisms by way of which one or more respective ones of the potential participants can timely commute to one or more of the pre-planned or being-planned meetings as represented by the meeting-related first items, and optionally an indication of potential and practicably available second transport mechanisms by way of which one or more respective ones of the potential participants can timely commute to a respective post-meeting next destinations of the respective potential participants.
  - 27. The method of claim 1 wherein the caused automatically repeated collecting of first user state indicating signals includes at least one of:
    - using one or more physical context determining units configured for generating physical context signals indicative of current physical contexts of the first user where the indicated physical contexts include at least one of;
      
      current spatial locations of the first user in at least one of real life (ReL) physical space and a virtual life space;
      
      current chronological locations of the first user in at least one of real life time and virtual life time;
      
      current physical identifying attributes of the first user in at least one of real life (ReL) physical space and a virtual life space, which physical identifying attributes include at least one of user height, weight, skin tone and/or markings hair characteristics, worn garments and/or other worn items, body part dimensions and current orientations thereof;
      
      current biological states of the first user;
      
      a current history based state of the first user;
      
      current physical surrounding attributes of the first user in at least one of real life (ReL) physical space and a virtual life space, which physical surrounding attributes include at least one of;
      
      being indoors or outdoors;
      
      numbers and types and descriptions of nearby machine and/or non-machine objects, numbers and types and descriptions of nearby real or virtual persons or other animated creatures; and
      
      using one or more attention giving activity determining units configured for generating attention giving activity indicating signals indicative of a corresponding one or more attention giving activities of the first user whereby the first user is apparently expending attention giving energies directed at one thing more so than another.
  - 28. The method of claim 27 wherein:
    - the one or more attention giving activities include at least one of;
      
      looking at something with greater intensity that at another thing;
      
      listening to something with substantial intensity;
      
      attempting to smell something with substantial smelling intensity;
      
      attempting to taste something;
      
      attempting to feel something;
      
      attempting to move something;
      
      entering a biologically detectable, alerted state.
  - 29. The method of claim 27 and further comprising:
    - using one or more proximate resources identifying units configured for generating proximate resource identifying signals that identify resources which are usably proximate to the respective first user even if such usably proximate resources are not turned on or are not online.
  - 30. The method of claim 27 and further comprising:
    - using one or more grouping or clustering units operatively coupled to respective ones of the attention giving activity determining units for receiving corresponding activity indicating signals alone or in hybridized combination with attendant physical context signals, the grouping or clustering units being configured to cluster or otherwise group together the received activity indicating signals into grouped permutations and record such grouped permutations as being at least trial permutations.
  - 31. The method of claim 30 wherein:
    - the one or more grouping or clustering units are configured to select or generate trial permutations of grouped activity indicating signals and to test the selected or generated trial permutations for strong, weak or no cross-correlation to search engine results and/or strong, weak or no cross-correlation to points, nodes or sub-regions of system-maintained Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces.
  - 32. The method of claim 31 wherein:
    - the one or more grouping or clustering units are further configured to assign cross-correlation scores to the tested trial permutations and to sort the scored permutations of grouped activity indicating signals according to their assigned cross-correlation scores.
  - 33. The method of claim 32 wherein:
    - the one or more grouping or clustering units are further configured to form next-level trial permutations of once-scored permutations of grouped activity indicating signals and to repeat the cross-correlation trials on these next-level trial permutations so as to thereby form sorted lists of scored next-level permutations (a.k.a. clustered clusters).
  - 34. The method of claim 30 and further comprising:
    - using one or more Current Focus indicating (CFi) signal normalizing units interposed between the attention giving activity determining units and the grouping or clustering units, the CFi signal normalizing units being configured to convert idiosyncratic expressions and/or foreign language expressions contained within the received activity indicating signals into normalized and/or non-foreign language expressions.
  - 35. The method of claim 30 and further comprising:
    - using one or more CFi signal supplementing units interposed between the attention giving activity determining units and the grouping or clustering units, the CFi signal supplementing units being configured to add semantically similar or opposite in connotation expressions and/or foreign language expressions to supplement expressions already contained within the received activity indicating signals.
  - 36. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:
    - (e.1) automatically selecting as respective currently active profiles of a corresponding sub-population of users of the machine system, respective Personal Social Dynamics Interaction profiles (PSDI profiles) for the corresponding sub-population of users based at least on their respectively determined contexts; and
      
      (e.2) causing an automatic presenting to the first user of representations of likely current and/or recent social dynamics evolving within the corresponding sub-population of users of the machine system based on their respective and currently active PSDI profiles.
  - 37. The method of claim 1 wherein the currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format is determined based at least on one of the determined as likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and includes at least one of:
    - (c.1) a displayed session frame within which still or periodically and automatically re-rendered pictures of faces or more of participants in the online session are displayed;
      
      (c.2) a displayed session frame within which animated avatars representing the participants in the online session are automatically displayed;
      
      (c.3) a displayed session frame within which animated avatars representing the participants in the online session are automatically displayed and where the automatically displayed animated avatars represent current facial or body gestures and/or current moods and emotions of the corresponding participants;
      
      (c.4) a displayed session frame having it reality augmented by provision within the displayed session frame of emotion-indicating icons that are automatically displayed and where the emotion-indicating icons may include;
      
      (c.4a) ones showing how forum subgroups view each other, (c.4b) ones showing how forum subgroups view individual participants and/or (c.4c) ones showing how individual forum participants want to be viewed by the rest of the participants;
      
      (c.5) a displayed session frame which is automatically accompanied by background music and/or background other sounds for signifying moods for one or more of the session itself or of subgroups or of individual forum participants;
      
      (c.6) a displayed session frame within which there is automatically included background imagery for thereby establishing moods for one or more of the session itself or of subgroups or of individual forum participants;
      
      (c.7) a displayed session frame within which there is automatically included information indicating detected or perceived social dynamic attributes;
      
      (c.8) a displayed session frame within which there is automatically included information indicating detected or perceived demographic attributes; and
      
      (c.9) a displayed session frame within which there are automatically included invitations for joining yet other interrelated chat or other forum participation sessions and/or invitations for having one or more promotional offerings presented to the user;
      
      the method further comprising;
      
      (e) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of said at least one presentation format that is determined to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user.
  - 38. The method of claim 1 wherein the currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format is automatically repeatedly determined based at least on one of the determined as likely current or recent contextual states of the first user, based on a subset of the automatically updated first user state indicating signals that indicate a current focus of the first user, based on automatically updated second user state indicating signals that indicate current areas of focus of other users and includes at least one of:
    - a hierarchical and/or spatial mapping of a first portion of a given cognition-representing space that is determined to be a current or recent likely main focus of a corresponding forum session that is being accessed by the first user and at least one of the other users, the given cognition-representing space being defined in the memory of the machine system and having at least one of respective points, nodes and sub-regions (respective PNOS'"'"'s), where the given cognition-representing space can be one of said communally-controlled context space, said communally-controlled topic space and said communally-controlled additional space; and
      
      a hierarchical and/or spatial mapping of a second portion of the given cognition-representing space that is determined to be a current or recent likely off-main and digressive focus within the corresponding forum session;
      
      the method further comprising;
      
      (e) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of said at least one presentation format that is determined to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user.
  - 39. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:
    - (e) causing an automatically repeated ranking by the automated machine system as to which are comparatively more or less likely to be valid and best resolution ones having highest degrees of confidence in their respective determinations among the automatically repeatedly determined one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and their respectively associated two or more determined as currently active profiles of the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state indicating signals, the determinations of said degrees of confidence being based on at least one of the determined as currently active profiles of the first user.
  - 40. The method of claim 39 and further comprising:
    - (f) causing an automated sorting of the ranked contextual states.
  - 41. The method of claim 39 and further comprising:
    - (f) causing an automatically repeated testing of recent implicit and/or explicit reactions by the first user as to the welcomeness or desirability of recently provided servicings, offerings or suggestions and, responsive to the testing indicating that the recent implicit and/or explicit reactions are unexpected negative ones, automatically switching over to a fail-safe or default set of currently active profiles and predetermined contextual states for the first user.
  - 42. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:
    - (c.1) causing an automatically repeated at least one of categorizing, clustering, sanity checking and distributing of the collected first user state indicating signals based on a determined one or more of the likely current or recent contextual states.
  - 43. The method of claim 1 wherein the likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user include at least one of:
    - (c.1) suggestions of keywords and/or other cognition-representing expressions to be investigated by the first user based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
      
      (c.2) suggestions of connection and/or transport resources that may be used by the first user for participating in the suggested one or more of identified events to participate in and/or for making contacts with identified individual users or groups of users based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
      
      (c.3) suggestions of future time slots within which the first user is likely to be able to participate in the suggested one or more of the events to participate in and/or the making of contacts with the identified individual users or groups of users;
      
      (c.4) a presentation format selecting and/or identifying tool based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
      
      (c.5) an information expansion tool based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
      
      (c.6) an associated facial state displaying and/or selecting tool;
      
      (c.7) an associated forum investigating tool based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
      
      (c.8) an associated event investigating tool based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user;
      
      (c.9) an associated transport options investigating tool; and
      
      (c.10) a voting and/or commenting tool configured to allow the first user to vote on and/or comment with respect to likes and/or dislikes for a corresponding one or more servicings or other tools or offerings or suggestions automatically provided to the first user by the machine system.
  - 44. The method of claim 1 wherein the likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user include at least one of:
    - (c.1) suggestions of nodes or sub-regions within corresponding cognition-representing spaces to be investigated by the first user, said cognition-representing spaces being communally-controlled cognition-representing spaces maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system, the cognition-representing spaces being defined in the memory of the machine system and having at least one of respective points, nodes and sub-regions (respective PNOS'"'"'s), where the cognition-representing spaces can include one or more of said communally-controlled topic space, said communally-controlled context space and said communally-controlled additional space;
      
      (c.2) suggestions of resources identified within nodes or sub-regions of corresponding cognition-representing spaces where the suggested resources are to be investigated by the first user;
      
      (c.3) a serving tray hiding and/or un-hiding tool;
      
      (c.4) an eye tracking calibration tool;
      
      (c.5) an associated cognitions-representing space node or sub-region investigating tool;
      
      (c.6) an associated expert and/or otherwise influential person linking-to tool for linking to one or more associated expert and/or otherwise influential persons of a respective cognitions-representing space node or sub-region;
      
      (c.7) an associated expert and/or otherwise influential person tracking tool for tracking touching journeys made by one or more associated expert and/or otherwise influential persons through a respective Cognitions-representing Space or sub-region thereof;
      
      (c.8) a personas interrelationships tracking tool for tracking down various personas based on their interrelationships and optionally grouping them together based on their tracked down interrelationships;
      
      (c.9) a similar journeys tracking tool for automatically finding closely disposed touching journeys of two or more users through a respective cognitions-representing space or sub-region thereof;
      
      (c.10) a trending journeys tool for automatically predicting intersecting and/or continuing touching journeys of two or more users through a respective cognitions-representing space or sub-region thereof; and
      
      (c.11) an interaction co-compatibility tool for automatically predicting interaction co-compatibility between two or more users of the machine system.
  - 45. The method of claim 1 wherein the recent state is one that corresponds to at least one of:
    - (a.1a) a state that was present no more than two weeks before the current state;
      
      (a.1b) a state that was present no more than one week before the current state;
      
      (a.1c) a state that was present no more than two days before the current state;
      
      (a.1d) a state that was present no more than one day before the current state;
      
      (a.1e) a state that was present no more than 3.5 hours before the current state;
      
      (a.1f) a state that was present no more than 1 hour before the current state;
      
      (a.1g) a state that was present no more than 30 minutes before the current state; and
      
      (a.1h) a state that was present no more than 15 minutes before the current state.
  - 46. The method of claim 1 wherein the likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user tools are provided based on at least one of the determined likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and include at least one of:
    - (c.1) user operable explicit voting tools;
      
      (c.2) user operable explicit voting tools allowing the user to express votes beyond merely indicating one of a like or dislike for a vote targeted aspect of ongoing communications or a vote targeted aspect of a touched node;
      
      (c.3) user operable explicit voting tools allowing the user to express votes indicating one of a like or dislike for a vote cast by another user; and
      
      (c.4) user operable explicit voting tools allowing the user to explicitly express a vote with use of activated manipulation of a virtual object such as facial contortions or facial body language signals including for example those involving the tongue, the lips, the eyebrows, and/or the nostrils.
  - 47. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the automatically determined to be likely currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user tools is presented and includes at least one of:
    - (c.1) one or more user operable explicit emotion indicating tools;
      
      (c.2) one or more user operable explicit emotion indicating tools allowing the user to indicate a current mood, emotion or context graphically.
  - 48. The method of claim 47 wherein the user operable explicit emotion indicating tools include a tool which allows the user to graphically specify the user'"'"'s current mood, emotion or context as being at least one of fearful, anxious, aloof, attentive, happy, sad, angry about at least one of the users'"'"' current state, about other people, about geographic locations, about places in time;
    - about keywords and about topics.
  - 49. The method of claim 47 wherein the user operable explicit emotion indicating tools include a tool which allows the user to graphically specify the user'"'"'s current mood, emotion or context by way of at least one of:
    - a tool which controls a displaying of a face representing the user;
      
      a tool which controls a displaying of at least one of a background behind or a foreground of an icon representing the user; and
      
      a tool which controls a displaying of a face representing the user and of a background behind the face.
  - 50. The method of claim 1 wherein said subset of plural profiles currently active for the first user at the start of each round of the automatically repeated determining of the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user includes a Personal Habits And Favorites/Unfavorites Expressings Log (PHAFUEL) profile and a Personal Social Dynamics Interaction profiles (PSDI) profile.
  - 51. The method of claim 1 wherein said automatically repeated determining of the one or more likely current or recent contextual states of the first user includes use of a recorded data-object organizing space specifying a hierarchy of course resolution and finer resolution context defining points or subregions, the data-object organizing space being a communally-controlled space.
  - 52. The method of claim 1 wherein said automatically repeated collecting of the first user state indicating signals includes collecting of signals indicative of the first user'"'"'s real world physical surrounds and indicative of the first user'"'"'s biometric states.
  - 53. The method of claim 52 wherein said automatically repeated collecting of the first user state indicating signals includes collecting of signals identifying content the first user is currently focusing attention upon.
  - 54. The method of claim 1 wherein the subset of the determined to be currently active profiles of the first user includes:
    - a currently active Personal Habits And Favorites/Unfavorites Expression Logging profile (PHAFUEL profile) and at least one of;
      
      a currently active Personal Emotion Expression Profile (PEEP profile);
      
      a currently active Personhood Co-Compatibility profile (CpCC profile); and
      
      a currently active Domain-specific Co-Compatibility profile (DsCC profile);
      
      a currently active context-centric personal profile;
      
      a currently active coding normalizing/augmenting profile;
      
      a currently active preferences profile;
      
      a currently active persona characterizing profile;
      
      a currently active and pre-specified default profile; and
      
      a currently active Personal Social Dynamics Interaction profile (PSDI profile);
      
      and wherein the currently active PHAFUEL profile is used to generate a confidence score for one or more of the likely current or recent contextual states of the first user as determined by the automated machine system.
  - 55. The method of claim 54 wherein at least one of the currently active profiles of the first user includes:
    - knowledge base rules including rules that can cause deactivating one of the currently active profiles of the first user and replacing the deactivated profile with another profile that is deemed to be currently active.
  - 56. The method of claim 1 wherein:
    - (b.1) said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system includes contextual states defined by way of communal consensus of two or more of said plurality of users of the automated machine system.
  - 57. The method of claim 56 wherein:
    - (b.1a) said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system are each defined by respective context nodes in a first hierarchical tree and postionings of the context nodes within the first hierarchical tree are determined by way of communal consensus of two or more of said plurality of users of the automated machine system.
  - 58. The method of claim 57 wherein:
    - (b.1b) said respective context nodes of the first hierarchical tree each respectively includes at least one context defining field filed specifying at least one of a role or an activity associated with that respective context node.
  - 59. The method of claim 57 wherein:
    - (b.1b) said respective context nodes of the first hierarchical tree include first context nodes having respective first context associating pointers pointing to other nodes or other subregions of one or more respective other cognition representing spaces other than context space taken alone such that the respective first context associating pointers respectively identify those of the pointed to other nodes or other subregions associated with the contextual states of the respective first context nodes.
  - 60. The method of claim 59 wherein:
    - (b.1b1) said other nodes or other subregions pointed to by the first context associating pointers include corresponding topic nodes or topic subregions of at least one topics based cognition representing space.
  - 61. The method of claim 59 wherein:
    - (b.1b2) said other nodes or other subregions pointed to by the first context associating pointers include corresponding demographic nodes or demographic subregions of at least one demographics based cognition representing space.
  - 62. The method of claim 59 wherein:
    - (b.1b2) said other nodes or other subregions pointed to by the first context associating pointers include corresponding forum identifying nodes or forum identifying subregions of at least one forum-types cognition representing space.
  - 63. The method of claim 59 wherein:
    - (b.1b2) said other nodes or other subregions pointed to by the first context associating pointers include corresponding roles cross-relating nodes or roles cross-relating subregions of at least one roles cross-relating cognition representing space;
      
      wherein each of the first context nodes has a respective first role associated therewith and the respectively pointed to and corresponding roles cross-relating nodes or roles cross-relating subregions identify other roles cross-related with the first role.
  - 64. The method of claim 59 wherein:
    - (b.1b2) said other nodes or other subregions pointed to by the first context associating pointers include corresponding keyword nodes or keyword clustering subregions or keyword combining nodes of at least one keywords cross-relating cognition representing space;
      
      wherein respective ones of the corresponding keyword nodes or keyword combining nodes are spatially or logically clustered to one another within the keywords cross-relating cognition representing space based on semantic and contextual interrelation of the spatially or logically clustered together keyword nodes or spatially or logically clustered together keyword combining nodes.
  - 65. The method of claim 57 wherein:
    - (b.1b) said respective nodes of the first hierarchical tree include first context nodes having respective first context associating pointers pointing to knowledge base rules (KBR'"'"'s) that provide for at least one of inclusion and exclusion of other nodes or other subregions of one or more respective other cognition representing spaces other than context space taken alone such that the respective first context associating pointers respectively identify by way of the pointed to KBR'"'"'s those of the other nodes or other subregions that can be associated with the contextual states of the respective first context nodes.
  - 66. The method of claim 65 wherein:
    - (b.1b1) said other nodes or other subregions respectively identified by way of the pointed to KBR'"'"'s include corresponding topic nodes or corresponding topic subregions of at least one topics based cognition representing space.
  - 67. The method of claim 56 wherein:
    - (b.1a) said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system are each defined by respective points in a context space and postionings of the nodes within the context space are determined by way of communal consensus of two or more of said plurality of users of the automated machine system.
  - 68. The method of claim 1 wherein:
    - (b.1) said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system includes hybrid contextual states defined by way of communal consensus of two or more of said plurality of users of the automated machine system; and
      
      wherein each of the hybrid contextual states represents both a respective contextual state and at least one other kind of state cross-hybridized with the respective contextual state.
  - 69. The method of claim 68 wherein:
    - (b.1a) said at least one other kind of state cross-hybridized with the respective contextual state is an organized keywords state.
  - 70. The method of claim 68 wherein:
    - (b.1a) said at least one other kind of state cross-hybridized with the respective contextual state is a focused-on topic state.
  - 71. The method of claim 1 wherein:
    - (b.1) said larger set of selectable contextual states defined and maintained by the automated machine system includes contextual states that are logically cross associated with other nodes defined and maintained by the automated machine system, the logical cross associations with the other nodes being based on automatically repeatedly updated communal consensus of plural users of the automated machine system, wherein those other nodes which are logically cross associated with the included contextual states comprise at least one of;
      
      (b.1a) a textual expression primitive object (TexPO);
      
      (b.1b) a topic space node or subregion;
      
      (b.1c) a knowledge base rule (KBR) that references one of the included contextual states;
      
      (b.1d) a demographic attribute node;
      
      (b.1e) a subregion of a forums clustering space;
      
      (b.1f) a subregion of a users clustering space; and
      
      (b.1g) a clustering center point in another cognitions representing space.
  - 72. The method of claim 71 wherein the other nodes include the textual expression primitive object (TexPO) and wherein:
    - (b.1a) an included one of the TexPO'"'"'s defines at least one of;
      
      (b.1a1) a categorizing tag;
      
      (b.1a2) a meta-tag;
      
      (b.1a2) a keyword;
      
      (b.1a3) a combination of yet more primitive textual expression primitive objects;
      
      (b.1a4) a type of textual object defined by the included TexPO;
      
      (b.1a5) an identification of one or more system-maintained cognitive attention receiving spaces with which the included TexPO is best associated;
      
      (b.1a6) a textual regular expression formed of a combination of control codes and alphanumeric symbols;
      
      (b.1a7) an identification of an anchoring location of the included TexPO within a textual primitives layer;
      
      (b.1a8) an identification of a residence location of the included TexPO within a respective hierarchical and/or spatial organizing and cognitions-representing space;
      
      (b.1a9) a specification of anchoring strength factor associated with the included TexPO;
      
      (b.1a10) a specification of respective directional distances associated with the included TexPO and intra-space cross-linkages thereof;
      
      (b.1a11) an identification of expression matching rules associated with the included TexPO;
      
      (b.1a12) one or more logical links to points, nodes or subregions and/or cognitive-sense-representing clustering center points in a system maintained cognition space that strongly cross-correlate with a textual cognition of the included TexPO;
      
      (b.1a13) one or more logical links to forum participation sessions that strongly cross-correlate with the textual cognition of the included TexPO;
      
      (b.1a14) an identification of a cognitive-sense-representing clustering center point associated with the included TexPO; and
      
      (b.1a15) one or more pointers that logically link to informational resources which are cross-associated with the textual cognition of the included TexPO.
  - 73. The method of claim 71 and further comprising:
    - (e) using a stack of currently likely contextual states to drive a profiles update layer; and
      
      (f) using the profiles update layer to drive a subregions matching layer that finds better resolved subregions of system maintained cognition representing spaces based on updateable currently likely contextual states stored in the stack of currently likely contextual states.
  - 74. The method of claim 1 wherein:
    - the automatically repeatedly determined as likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user and the corresponding automatic providing thereof to the first user include at least one of;
      
      (d.3) suggestions for the first user corresponding to tracking, following, or observing respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys of one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria, the respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys occurring within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system, identities of the touched or heat-cast upon forums and/or touched or heat-cast upon resources being derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system, where touchings are due to focus by the other users or entities onto the corresponding PNOS'"'"'s and heat castings are due to overlap of cast and respective system-defined halos of the respective other users or entities onto the corresponding PNOS'"'"'s;
      
      (d.4) suggestions for the first user corresponding to following and/or joining in on forums, resources or events which have had heat cast on them by or have been touched by the one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria, identities of the touched or heat-cast upon forums, resources or events being derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space and communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system;
      
      (d.5) suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings on one or more of respective forums, nodes, cognitive subregions and resources, the cognitive subregions being within at least one of the communally-controlled topic space, the communally-controlled additional space or yet a further communally-controlled additional space of the automated machine system; and
      
      (d.6) suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings by one or more tracked entities.
  - 75. The method of claim 74 and further comprising:
    - (e) causing an automatically repeated generating of one or more predicted or extrapolated future trajectories within at least one of said communally-controlled topic space, said communally-controlled additional space or yet a further communally-controlled cognition-representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system, the generated one or more predicted or extrapolated future trajectories being for touchings within that at least one space based on previous touchings made by the first user and/or made by one or more of the other users of the automated machine system within that at least one space and/or causing a presenting to the first user one or more predicted castings of heats on respective points, nodes and sub-regions (respective PNOS'"'"'s) within that at least one space based on the generated predicted or extrapolated future trajectories.
  - 76. The method of claim 74 wherein:
    - (c.2a1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to tracking, following, or observing respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys of one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria; and
      
      (c.2a2) the pre-specified criteria specify at least one of;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to reputation of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to credentials of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to influencing capabilities of the one or more other users or entities; and
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to rankings of the one or more other users or entities.
  - 77. The method of claim 74 wherein:
    - (c.2b1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to following and/or joining in on forums, resources or events which have had heat cast on them by or have been touched by the one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria; and
      
      (c.2b2) the pre-specified criteria specify at least one of;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to reputation of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to credentials of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to influencing capabilities of the one or more other users or entities; and
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to rankings of the one or more other users or entities.
  - 78. The method of claim 74 wherein:
    - (c.2c1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings on one or more of respective forums, nodes, cognitive subregions and resources; and
      
      (c.2c2) the heat castings or respective changes in heat castings include at least one of;
      
      individual or group heat castings where the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective changes in the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      ranked individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective heat castings place them in a pre-specified ranking tier; and
      
      ranked changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective changes place them in a pre-specified ranking tier.
  - 79. The method of claim 74 wherein:
    - (c.2d1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings by one or more tracked entities; and
      
      (c.2d2) the heat castings or respective changes in heat castings include at least one of;
      
      individual or group heat castings where the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective changes in the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      ranked individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective heat castings place them in a pre-specified ranking tier; and
      
      ranked changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective changes place them in a pre-specified ranking tier.
  - 80. The method of claim 74 wherein:
    - (c.2e1) the suggestions include suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with; and
      
      (c.2e2) the suggested individual users or groups of users to be contacted have at least one of;
      
      respective reputations relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained cognitions-representing spaces or sub-regions thereof;
      
      respective credentials relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained cognitions-representing spaces or sub-regions thereof;
      
      respective influencing capabilities relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained cognitions-representing spaces or sub-regions thereof; and
      
      respective rankings relative to other individual users or groups of users and relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained cognitions-representing spaces or sub-regions thereof.
  - 81. The method of claim 1 wherein:
    - the automatically repeatedly determined as likely to be currently welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user and the corresponding automatic providing thereof to the first user include at least one of;
      
      (d.7) suggestions of events the first user may desire to participate in;
      
      (d.8) information about current and/or recent contextual states and/or currently and/or recently focused-upon topics of other users of the machine system;
      
      (d.9) information about currently available promotional goods and/or services;
      
      (d.10) an associated context indicating tool that indicates one or more contexts of the communally-controlled context space that are associated with a corresponding current presentation format; and
      
      (d.11) an associated person or associated group investigating tool, which said person or group can be immediately investigated by user activation of the provided said investigating tool.
  - 82. The method of claim 1 wherein the currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format is automatically repeatedly determined based at least on one of the determined as likely current or recent contextual states of the first user and includes at least one of:
    - a grid defined by intersecting axes each populated by a respective plurality of data objects representing at least one of respective servicings or offerings or suggestions being made to the first user and social entities that are associable with the first user;
      
      one or more stacks of virtual cards that may be navigated through by the first user with each card providing a respective servicing or offering or suggestion for the first user;
      
      a geographic map populated by icons and/or pointed to by pointers where corresponding servicings or offerings or suggestions for the first user are associated with areas of the geographic map that are populated by the respective icons and/or are pointed to by the pointers;
      
      a social dynamics map and/or array having symbols indicative of social entities engaged in a social event and indicative of respective emotions, gestures and/or social dynamic positionings of the respective social entities;
      
      an array of respective servicing or offering opportunities presented for the first user and associated with at least one of such opportunities, an indication of known friends, contacts, groups and influential personas corresponding to the at least one of such opportunities; and
      
      an array of respective servicing or offering opportunities presented for the first user and associated with at least one of such opportunities, an indication of one or more sub-regions of respective Cognitions-representing Spaces corresponding to the at least one of such opportunities;
      
      an array of respective servicing or offering opportunities presented for the first user and associated with at least one of such opportunities, an indication of a social heat corresponding to the at least one of such opportunities; and
      
      an array of respective servicing or offering opportunities presented for the first user and associated with at least one of such opportunities, an indication of customizing tools usable by the first user in conjunction with the corresponding at least one of such opportunities;
      
      the method further comprising;
      
      (e) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of said at least one presentation format that is determined to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user.

83. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
- (a) causing an automatically repeated collecting by an automated machine system of automatically updated first user state predicting signals for a corresponding first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system, the machine system having one or more processors and memory, where the automatically updated, collected first user state predicting signals are indicative of at least one of;
  
  (a.1) a planned future state of the first user and/or one or more planned future locations of the first user;
  
  (a.2) an expected future state of the first user based on recorded habits and/or routines of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the habits and/or routines, said recorded habits and/or routines of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the habits and/or routines being provided in one or more context-dependent first profiles of the first user; and
  
  (a.3) an expected future social dynamics state of the first user based on recorded likely social dynamics states of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the likely social dynamics states, said recorded likely social dynamics states of the first user and/or associated likes and dislikes of the likely social dynamics states being provided in one or more context-dependent second profiles of the first user;
  
  (b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely future contextual states of the first user and of two or more likely to be active profiles in a machine-predicted future time period for the first user based on the collected, automatically updated first user state predicting signals, the determined likely future contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined within the memory of and maintained by the automated machine system and the determined likely to be active profiles being a subset of a larger set of more than two selectable profiles of the first user that are stored within the memory of and maintained by the automated machine system, the two or more likely to be active profiles including at least one of said context-dependent first and second profiles;
  
  (b2) causing the determined likely future contextual states and the determined likely to be active profiles to be automatically repeatedly used as a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next likely to be active profiles and/or of next likely future contextual states such that one or more likely future cognitive states of the first user can be determined with improved resolution;
  
  (c) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of one or more in the future likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user and/or in the future likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user presentation format for presenting at least one of such servicings, tools, offerings or suggestions based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely future contextual states of the first user and based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely to be active profiles in the machine-predicted future time period for the first user; and
  
  (d) causing an automatic providing to the first user and with contribution from the automated machine system of at least one of the one or more in the future likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings, tools, offerings and suggestions that have been determined by said second determining to be in the future likely to be welcomed or desired by the first user;
  
  wherein said automatically repeated first determining of which subset of the two or more profiles of the first user are likely to be active profiles of the first user is based on a previous determining by the method of one or more likely future contextual states of the first user;
  
  wherein said automatically repeated first determining of the one or more likely future contextual states of the first user is based on a current determination of which two or more of the plural profiles of the first user are likely to be active profiles of the first user, such that said feedback loop is formed; and
  
  further wherein the in the future likely welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions that are determined and presented to the first user include at least one of;
  
  (c.1) suggestions of topics and/or forums to be investigated by the first user in predetermined future time periods, the topics and/or forums being derived from a communally-controlled topic space maintained within the memory of and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
  
  (c.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with in predetermined future time periods, identities of said individual users or groups of users being derived from a communally-controlled cognitions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system, the cognitions-representing space being defined in the memory of the machine system and having at least one of respective points, nodes and sub-regions (respective PNOS'"'"'s), where the cognitions-representing space can be one of said communally-controlled topic space or another communally-controlled space maintained within the memory of the automated machine system;
  
  (c.3) suggestions of events the first user may desire to participate in predetermined future time periods, identities of said events being derived from the communally-controlled cognitions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
  
  (c.4) information about predicted contextual states and/or predicted focused-upon topics of other users of the machine system, the predicted contextual states and/or predicted focused-upon topics being derived from a communally-controlled hybrid topic-context space maintained within the memory of and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
  
  (c.5) information about promotional goods and/or services planned or predicted to become available in predetermined future time periods; and
  
  (c.6) an associated person or associated group investigating tool to be used in predetermined future time periods.
- View Dependent Claims (84, 85)
- - 84. The method of claim 83 wherein the in the future likely welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user include at least one of:
    - (c.7) suggestions of keywords and/or other cognition-representing expressions to be investigated by the first user in predetermined future time periods, the keywords and/or other cognition-representing expressions being derived from a communally-controlled expressions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
      
      (c.2) suggestions of connection and/or transport resources that may be used by the first user for participating in the suggested one or more of events to participate in and/or for making the contacts with the identified individual users or groups of users in predetermined future time periods, identities of said events and/or individual users or groups of users being derived from one or more communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
      
      (c.3) suggestions of time slots within which the first user is likely to be able to participate in the suggested one or more of the events to participate in and to make the contacts with the identified individual users or groups of users;
      
      (c.4) a presentation format selecting and/or identifying tool;
      
      (c.5) an information expansion tool;
      
      (c.6) an associated facial state displaying and/or selecting tool;
      
      (c.7) an associated forum investigating tool;
      
      (c.8) an associated event investigating tool;
      
      (c.9) an associated transport options investigating tool; and
      
      (c.10) a voting and/or commenting tool configured to allow the first user to vote on and/or comment in a future predetermined time period with respect to likes and/or dislikes for a corresponding one or more servicings or other tools or offerings or suggestions automatically provided to the first user by the machine system.
  - 85. The method of claim 83 wherein the likely to be in the future welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be made to the first user include at least one of:
    - (c.1) suggestions of nodes or sub-regions within corresponding cognition-representing spaces to be investigated by the first user in predetermined future time periods, said cognition-representing spaces being communally-controlled cognition-representing spaces maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
      
      (c.2) suggestions of resources identified within nodes or sub-regions of corresponding cognition-representing spaces where the suggested resources are to be investigated by the first user in predetermined future time periods;
      
      (c.3) a serving tray hiding and/or un-hiding tool to be made available to the first user in predetermined future time periods;
      
      (c.4) an associated expert and/or otherwise influential person linking-to tool to be made available to the first user in predetermined future time periods for then linking to one or more associated expert and/or otherwise influential persons of a respective cognitions-representing space node or sub-region;
      
      (c.5) an associated expert and/or otherwise influential person tracking tool to be made available to the first user in predetermined future time periods for then tracking touching journeys made by one or more associated expert and/or otherwise influential persons through a respective Cognitions-representing Space or sub-region thereof;
      
      (c.6) a personas interrelationships tracking tool to be made available to the first user in predetermined future time periods for then tracking down various personas based on their interrelationships and optionally grouping them together based on their tracked down interrelationships;
      
      (c.7) a similar journeys tracking tool to be made available to the first user in predetermined future time periods for then automatically finding closely disposed touching journeys of two or more users through a respective cognitions-representing space or sub-region thereof;
      
      (c.8) a trending journeys tool for automatically predicting intersecting and/or continuing touching journeys of two or more users through a respective cognitions-representing space or sub-region thereof; and
      
      (c.9) an interaction co-compatibility tool to be made available to the first user in predetermined future time periods for then automatically predicting interaction co-compatibility between two or more users of the machine system.

86. A machine-implemented and contextually-sensitive, user-servicing method comprising:
- (a) causing an automatically repeated collecting of automatically updated first user state indicating signals by an automated machine system, the machine system having one or more processors and a memory, where the collected first user state indicating signals are indicative of at least a current state of a first user among a plurality of users of the automated machine system;
  
  (b1) causing an automatically repeated first determining by the automated machine system of one or more likely current contextual states of the first user based on the automatically repeatedly collected and updated first user state indicating signals, the determined likely current contextual states being a subset of a larger set of selectable contextual states defined within a communally-controlled contextual states representing space maintained within the memory of and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system and the set of selectable contextual states being distinct from a set of more than two different and selectable user profiles further maintained within the memory of and by the automated machine system;
  
  (b2) causing an automatically repeated second determining by the automated machine system of which at least two of the more than two different and selectable user profiles are currently active profiles based on said first determining by the automated machine system of the one or more likely current contextual states of the first user and using the currently active profiles to select next one or more likely current contextual states of the first user thus defining a feedback loop that can operate to assist in selecting of next likely to be active profiles and/or of next likely further contextual states such that one or more likely future cognitive states of the first user can be determined with progressively improving resolution;
  
  (c) causing an automatically repeated third determining by the automated machine system of one or more currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions to be provided to the first user based on the automatically repeated first determinations of what are the one or more likely current contextual states of the first user;
  
  (d) causing an automated providing to the first user of the at least one of the automatically determined to be currently likely to be welcomed or desired-by-the-first user servicings or tools or offerings or suggestions; and
  
  further wherein the caused automated providing provides at least one of;
  
  (c.2) suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with, identities of said individual users or groups of users being derived from a communally-controlled cognitions representing space maintained and automatically repeatedly updated by the automated machine system;
  
  (c.2a) suggestions for the first user corresponding to tracking, following, or observing respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys of one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria, the respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys occurring within at least one of the communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces maintained within the memory of the automated machine system, identities of the touched or heat-cast upon forums and/or touched or heat-cast upon resources being derived from links provided within at least one of the communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces of the automated machine system, where touchings are due to focus by the other users or entities onto the corresponding points, nodes or subregions (PNOS'"'"'s) of the at least one of the communally-controlled cognitions representing spaces and heat castings are due to overlap of cast and respective system-defined halos of the respective other users or entities onto the corresponding PNOS'"'"'s;
  
  (c.2b) suggestions for the first user corresponding to following and/or joining in on forums, resources or events which have had heat cast on them or have been touched by the one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria;
  
  (c.2c) suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings on one or more of respective forums, nodes, cognitive subregions and resources; and
  
  (c.2d) suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings by one or more tracked entities.
- View Dependent Claims (87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
- - 87. The method of claim 86 wherein:
    - (c.2a1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to tracking, following, or observing respective heat castings, forum touchings, node touchings, resource touchings and/or inter-node journeys of one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria; and
      
      (c.2a2) the pre-specified criteria specify at least one of;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to reputation of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to credentials of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to influencing capabilities of the one or more other users or entities; and
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to rankings of the one or more other users or entities.
  - 88. The method of claim 86 wherein:
    - (c.2b1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to following and/or joining in on forums, resources or events which have had heat cast on them by or have been touched by the one or more other users or entities who meet pre-specified criteria; and
      
      (c.2b2) the pre-specified criteria specify at least one of;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to reputation of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to credentials of the one or more other users or entities;
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to influencing capabilities of the one or more other users or entities; and
      
      one or more other users or entities who satisfy pre-specified criteria relating to rankings of the one or more other users or entities.
  - 89. The method of claim 86 wherein:
    - (c.2c1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings on one or more of respective forums, nodes, cognitive subregions and resources; and
      
      (c.2c2) the heat castings or respective changes in heat castings include at least one of;
      
      individual or group heat castings where the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective changes in the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      ranked individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective heat castings place them in a pre-specified ranking tier; and
      
      ranked changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective changes place them in a pre-specified ranking tier.
  - 90. The method of claim 86 wherein:
    - (c.2d1) the suggestions include suggestions for the first user corresponding to spotting above threshold or negligible respective positive or negative polarity heat castings or respective changes in heat castings by one or more tracked entities; and
      
      (c.2d2) the heat castings or respective changes in heat castings include at least one of;
      
      individual or group heat castings where the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective changes in the respective heat castings exceed a pre-specified absolute or relative threshold;
      
      ranked individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective heat castings place them in a pre-specified ranking tier; and
      
      ranked changes in individual or group heat castings where the respective rankings of the respective changes place them in a pre-specified ranking tier.
  - 91. The method of claim 86 wherein:
    - (c.2e1) the suggestions include suggestions of individual users or groups of users for the first user to make contact with; and
      
      (c.2e2) the suggested individual users or groups of users to be contacted have at least one of;
      
      respective reputations relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained Cognitions-representing Spaces or sub-regions thereof;
      
      respective credentials relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained Cognitions-representing Spaces or sub-regions thereof;
      
      respective influencing capabilities relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained Cognitions-representing Spaces or sub-regions thereof; and
      
      respective rankings relative to other individual users or groups of users and relating to one or more specified and system tracked forums and/or specified and system maintained Cognitions-representing Spaces or sub-regions thereof.

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RPX Corporation
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Jeffrey A. Rapaport
Inventors
Rapaport, Jeffrey Alan, Rapaport, Seymour, Smith, Kenneth Allen, Beattie, James, Gimlan, Gideon
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Brown, Luis A
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Andrei, Radu

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US14/192,119
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US 20140344718A1
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