APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION USING LOCAL SERVICE INFORMATION

• US 20110191279A1
• Filed: 11/04/2010
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Su Myeon, Jang, Tae Ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,751,426 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A context-aware information obtaining method and apparatus uses local service information. A communication apparatus may receive local service information associated with a location of the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus may interpret the local service information to generate context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a local service receiving module configured to receive, from a server, local service information associated with a location of the communication apparatus; and

a local service interpreting module configured to interpret the local service information to generate context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

2. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the local service information comprises description information associated with a local service; and

the local service interpreting module is further configured to interpret the description information to generate the context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

3. The communication apparatus of claim 2, wherein the description information comprises at least one of:

a title of the local service, a location providing the local service, and a type of the local service.

4. The communication apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a local service execution module configured to:

execute a local service corresponding to the received local service information; and

interpret the local service being executed, to generate execution information of the communication apparatus.

5. The communication apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a context-aware information collecting module configured to collect;

the context-aware information from the local service receiving module;

or

the execution information from the local service execution module;

a context-aware information processing module configured to;

interpret the context-aware information collected by the context-aware information collecting module; and

infer a context of a user of the communication apparatus; and

a context-aware information providing module configured to provide information based on the inferred context of the user of the communication apparatus.

6. The communication apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a local service searching module configured to search for a server providing a local service associated with the location of the communication apparatus to display the retrieved server on the communication apparatus.

7. A method of generating context-aware information, the method comprising:

receiving, by a communication apparatus, local service information associated with a location of the communication apparatus from a server; and

interpreting, by the communication apparatus, the local service information to generate the context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the local service information comprises description information associated with the local service; and

the interpreting to generate the context-aware information comprises interpreting of the description information included in the local service information to generate the context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the description information comprises at least one of:

a title of the local service, a location providing the local service, and a type of the local service.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

executing a local service corresponding to the received local service information; and

interpreting the local service being executed, to generate execution information of the communication apparatus.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

collecting the context-aware information or the execution information;

interpreting the collected context-aware information;

inferring a context of a user of the communication apparatus; and

providing information based on the inferred context of the user of the communication apparatus.

12. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for executing a method, comprising:

receiving, at the communication apparatus, local service information associated with a location of the communication apparatus from a server; and

interpreting, at the communication apparatus, the local service information to generate the context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the local service information comprises description information associated with the local service; and

interpreting the description information included in the local service information to generate the context-aware information of the communication apparatus.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the description information comprises at least one of:

a title of the local service, a location providing the local service, and a type of the local service.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, further comprising:

executing a local service corresponding to the received local service information; and

interpreting the local service being executed, to generate execution information of the communication apparatus.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising:

collecting the context-aware information or the execution information;

interpreting the collected context-aware information;

inferring a context of a user of the communication apparatus; and

providing information based on the context of the user of the communication apparatus.