Apparatus and method for generating context-aware information using local service information

• US 8,751,426 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2010
• Issued: 06/10/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chubb, Mikayla
• Application Number:
  US12/939,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191279A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 sensor configured to sense context of a user of the communication apparatus and/or context around the communication apparatus;

a processor configured to predict context-aware information about the user of the communication apparatus based on the sensed context; and

a receiver configured to receive, from a server, local service information comprising information about at least one of a type and a title of a local service that is received by the communication apparatus,

wherein the processor is further configured to process the local service information to improve an accuracy of the predicted context-aware information about the user of the communication apparatus based on at least one of the type and the title of the local service that is received by the communication apparatus.

2. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the local service information comprises the title of the local service, a location providing the local service, and the type of the local service.

3. The communication apparatus of claim 1, 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.

4. The communication apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

a context-aware information collecting module configured to collect the context-aware information from the receiver 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.

5. 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.

14. The communication apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to further improve the accuracy of the detected context of the user of the communication apparatus based on the processed local service information and description information of the local service information which are received from the server.

15. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the context-aware information about the user comprises a prediction about an activity being performed by the user at a time at which the local service is being used by the communication apparatus.

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

sensing, via a sensor, context of a user of a communication apparatus and/or context around the communication apparatus;

predicting context-aware information about the user of the communication apparatus based on the sensed context;

receiving local service information from a server, the local service information comprising information about at least one of a type and a title of a local service that is received by the communication apparatus; and

processing the local service information to improve an accuracy of the predicted context-aware information about the user of the communication apparatus based on at least one of the type and the title of the local service that is received by the communication apparatus.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the local service information comprises the title of the local service, a location providing the local service, and the type of the local service.

8. The method of claim 6, 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.

9. The method of claim 8, 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.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for executing a method, the method comprising:

sensing, via a sensor, context of a user of a communication apparatus and/or context around the communication apparatus;

predicting context-aware information about the user of the communication apparatus based on the sensed context;

receiving local service information from a server, the local service information comprising information about at least one of a type and a title of a local service that is received by the communication apparatus; and

processing the local service information to improve an accuracy of the predicted context-aware information about the user of the communication apparatus based on at least one of the type and the title of the local service that is received by the communication apparatus.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the local service information comprises the title of the local service, a location providing the local service, and the type of the local service.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, 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.

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