PHYSICAL SENSOR DATA ENABLEMENT OF APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY USING REAL-WORLD DEVICE CONTEXTS

• US 20180181928A1
• Filed: 12/28/2016
• Published: 06/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Woo, Titus
• Application Number:
  US15/392,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20180181928A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/223 based on the use of peer-to-peer networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

There are provided systems and methods for physical sensor data enablement of application functionality using real-world device contexts. A computing device of a first user may include sensors, applications, and other components that detect real-world conditions nearby the computing device. Such components may therefore detect location, sound, motion, and other physical conditions. However, the data detected by the computing device may be underutilized where the computing device does not know how to correctly handle and interpret the data. Thus, through processing the real-world context of the data and the device at the time of detection, device actions may be executed. For example, the first user may interact with a second user in the real-world environment, where the device may determine that the users are associated in the real-world environment through the device components and automatically execute processes required by the first user with the second user.

Claims

1. A computing device system comprising:

a non-transitory memory; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the computing device system to perform operations comprising;

detecting a processing request associated with a transaction processing application executable on the computing device system of a first user;

determining, based at least on detected device data of an electronic device associated with a second user, that the first user is associated with the second user;

determining an identifier for identification of the second user through the transaction processing application; and

automatically populating contact information for the second user in the transaction processing application using the identifier, wherein the automatically populating is performed in association with an application interaction between the first user and the second user in the transaction processing application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the automatically populating the contact information comprises at least one of presenting a notification having the contact information within the transaction processing application, entering the contact information into an application form for the application interface, highlighting the contact information in a contact list for the transaction processing application, or bringing the contact information to a top of the contact list.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing request is associated with a first geo-location detected by the computing device system, and wherein the detected device data comprises a second geo-location detected by the electronic device, and wherein the determining that the first user is associated with the second user comprises matching the first geo-location to the second geo-location.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the matching the first geo-location to the second geo-location uses an amount of time that the first geo-location matches the second geo-location.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the detected device data comprises a movement of the electronic device captured using a motion detection component of the electronic device, and wherein the determining that the first user is associated with the second user comprises identifying that the movement occurs in response to the detecting the processing request associated with the transaction processing application.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the detected device data comprises information identifying that the first user and the second user are interacting in a real-world environment, and wherein the determining that the first user is associated with the second user comprises determining that the first user and the second user shared the real-world environment at a time of execution of the processing event.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise, prior to the determining that the first user is associated with the second user:

determining that the processing request comprises the application interaction requiring at least one user based on the processing request;

determining a plurality of users associated with the application interaction using a contact list for the first user and device data of devices for the plurality of users, wherein the plurality of users comprise a subset of the contact list; and

displaying the plurality of users to the first user through the transaction processing application,

wherein the determining that the first user is associated with the second user comprises receiving selection of the second user from the plurality of users displayed to the first user through the transaction processing application.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the application interaction comprises a payment or transfer request between the first user and the second user, wherein the contact information is populated within an interface of the transaction processing application for processing the payment or transfer request, and wherein the interface comprises at least one field for entry of at least one of an amount for the payment or transfer request or a message accompanying the payment or transfer request.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing request comprises one of opening of the transaction processing application, unlocking the computing device system, performing a device computing action set for the transaction processing application, a transaction request in the transaction processing application, or a contact lookup request in the transaction processing application.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the application interaction comprises one of a payment request for a payment between the first user and the second user, a fund transfer request between the first user and the second user for a funding amount, a connection request for a connection between the first user and the second user, a data retrieval request for user data or an identifier of the second user, or a message request for a message from the first user to the second user.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining the identifier for identification of the second user uses at least one contact list for the first user, and wherein the at least one contact list is taken from at least one of a contact list application used by the first user, a social networking account of the first user, prior contacts of the first user, or additional contacts known to the prior contacts of the first user.

12. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

detecting a processing request associated with a transaction processing application executable on a first computing device system of a first user;

determining, based on detected device data of at least one of the first computing device system or a second computing device system associated with a second user, that the first user is associated with the second user;

determining an identifier for identification of the second user through the transaction processing application; and

automatically populating contact information for the second user in the transaction processing application using the identifier, wherein the automatically populating is performed in association with an application interaction between the first user and the second user in the transaction processing application.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the application interaction comprises a payment or transfer request between the first user and the second user, wherein the first user comprises the requestee of the payment or transfer request to the second user, and wherein the second user comprises the requestor of the payment or transfer request from the first user.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

loading an amount for the payment or transfer request entered by the second user to an interface of the transaction processing application; and

processing the amount to the second user from the first user using the contact information.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the processing request by the first user is detected after the at least one of the first computing device system or the second computing device system captures the detected device data.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the detected device data comprises a first action performed by the second user using the second computing device system, wherein the processing request further comprises a second action performed by the first user using the first computing device system, and wherein the determining that the first user is associated with the second user comprises matching the first action to the second action.

17. A method comprising:

detecting a processing request associated with a first transaction processing application executable on a first computing device system of a first user;

determining, based on a first geo-location of the first computing device system and a second geo-location of a second computing device system associated with a second user, that the first user and the second user are co-located at a real-world location;

in response to the determining that the first user and the second user are co-located, determining an identifier for identification of the second user through the first transaction processing application; and

automatically populating contact information for the second user to a payment or transfer command in the first transaction processing application using the identifier, wherein the contact information is automatically populated to the payment or transfer command when the first user and the second user are co-located.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the determining that the first user and the second user are co-located further uses at least one of activity by the second user within a second transaction processing application executing on the second computing device system, a motion of the second computing device system by the second user captured by a motion detector of the second computing device system, data transfer activity of the second computing device system, a text message by the first user or the second user, voice data of the first user or the second user captured by the first computing device system or the second computing device system, a movement detected by the first computing device system or the second computing device system, a biometric detected by the first computing device system or the second computing device system, or an electronic pairing of the first computing device system and the second computing device system through a short range wireless connection.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the determining that the first user and the second user are co-located comprises determining that the first geo-location and the second geo-location are within a defined proximity for co-locating the first user to the second user for a set amount of time.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

determining transaction information for the payment or transfer command using a past transaction of the first user; and

automatically populating the transaction information for the payment or transfer command to the first transaction processing application,

wherein the processing request comprises imaging of a bill for a transaction by the first user, and wherein the determining that the first user is associated with the second user comprises using optical character recognition or image processing on the bill to determine that the application interaction comprises a split bill request for the bill with the second user.