Context tagging apparatus, systems, and methods

• US 20050289469A1
• Filed: 06/28/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Pettit-Brown, Shauna L., Chandler, Roger D., Chen, Johnny, Sengupta, Uttam K., Deshpande, Nikhil M.
• Application Number:
  US10/880,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20050289469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/745
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to store persistent context tag information associated with a geographic location. The persistent context tag information may be subsequently published to a mobile computing device located at a mobile location within a selected distance from the geographic location.

Claims

1. A method, including:

storing persistent context tag information associated with a geographic location, wherein the persistent context tag information is to be subsequently published to a mobile computing device located at a mobile location within a selected distance from the geographic location.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

storing at least a subset of the persistent context tag information in at least one of the mobile computing device and a server.

3. The method of claim 1, further including:

accessing a publication policy associated with the persistent context tag information; and

if permitted by the publication policy, publishing at least a subset of the persistent context tag information to the mobile computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, further including:

accessing a filtering policy associated with the mobile computing device; and

if permitted by the filtering policy, receiving at least a subset of the persistent context tag information at the mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, further including:

storing the persistent context tag information for a determined time period.

6. The method of claim 1, further including:

transmitting the persistent context tag information as a data stream formatted according to one of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, an IEEE 802.16 standard, an IEEE 802.20 standard, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 standard, and a Wideband CDMA standard.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the persistent context tag information includes at least two of a time, a date, text, opinion information, rating information, audio information, video information, smell information, tactile information, taste information, proximity information, environmental information, and previous context tag information.

8. An article including a machine-accessible medium having associated information, wherein the information, when accessed, results in a machine performing:

storing persistent context tag information associated with a geographic location, wherein the persistent context tag information is to be subsequently published to a mobile computing device located at a mobile location within a selected distance from the geographic location.

9. The article of claim 8, wherein the information, when accessed, results in the machine performing:

archiving the persistent context tag information on a server having accumulated context tag information associated with a plurality of geographic locations including the geographic location.

10. The article of claim 8, wherein the information, when accessed, results in the machine performing:

accessing a policy prior to publishing the persistent context tag information.

11. The article of claim 8, wherein the information, when accessed, results in the machine performing:

storing a publication policy to separate a first group of context tag information and a second group of context tag information, wherein the first group of context tag information and the second group of context tag information are included in the persistent context tag information.

12. The article of claim 11, wherein the first group of context tag information is associated with public information, and wherein the second group of context tag information is associated with private information.

13. The article of claim 12, wherein the information, when accessed, results in the machine performing:

filtering the persistent context tag information to provide a subset of the persistent context tag information; and

displaying the subset of the persistent context tag information at a mobile computing device.

14. An apparatus, including:

a memory to store persistent context tag information associated with a geographic location, wherein the persistent context tag information is to be subsequently published to a mobile computing device located at a mobile location within a selected distance from the geographic location.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, further including:

a wireless receiver module to receive the persistent context tag information.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, further including:

an trigger module to detect an event associated with the persistent context tag information.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, further including:

a module to select a subset of the persistent context tag information according to a filtering policy.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, further including:

a module to automatically store the persistent context tag information according to a recording policy.

19. An apparatus, including:

a transmitter to transmit persistent context tag information associated with a geographic location, wherein the persistent context tag information is to be stored and subsequently published to a mobile computing device located at a mobile location within a selected distance from the geographic location.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, further including:

a formatting module coupled to the transmitter to format the persistent context tag information according to one of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, an IEEE 802.16 standard, an IEEE 802.20 standard, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 standard, and a Wideband CDMA standard.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, further including:

a memory to store the persistent context tag information and an indication associated with the geographic location.

22. A system, including:

a module to store persistent context tag information associated with a geographic location, wherein the persistent context tag information is to be subsequently published to a mobile computing device located at a mobile location within a selected distance from the geographic location; and

an input device to access the persistent context tag information.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the input device is selected from one of a keyboard, a microphone, a pointing device, a touch screen, a joystick, and a display.

24. The system of claim 22, further including:

a wireless access point to transmit the persistent context tag information.

25. The system of claim 22, further including:

a module to receive environmental information from a plurality of proximate devices and to include at least a subset of the environmental information as a part of the persistent context tag information.

26. A method, including:

detecting a mobile computing device at a mobile location within a selected distance from a geographic location; and

receiving at least a subset of persistent context tag information associated with the geographic location at the mobile computing device.

27. The method of claim 26, further including:

accessing a filtering policy associated with the mobile computing device and the persistent context tag information.

28. The method of claim 26, further including:

filtering the persistent context tag information to provide the subset of the persistent context tag information; and

displaying at least a portion of the subset of the persistent context tag information at the mobile computing device.