Destination-configured topic information updates

• US 9,628,415 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2015
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AirBNB Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Adderly, Darryl M., Kashyap, Prasad M., Murray, Brian J., Qiao, Wenjian
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Truc M
• Application Number:
  US14/591,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20160195402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 832 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

A target travel destination is configured with a topic of conversation planned by a user to occur with at least one person at the target travel destination. A selection by the user of the target travel destination is detected within a user interface. Updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination is obtained. The updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination is provided to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

configuring, by a processor, a target travel destination with a topic of conversation planned by a user to occur with at least one person at the target travel destination;

detecting, within a user interface, a selection of the target travel destination by the user;

retrieving a search time stamp associated with a time of a last-detected user travel to the target travel destination;

obtaining updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, where obtaining the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination comprises obtaining information with publication time stamps after the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination; and

providing the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination.

2. The method of claim 1, where configuring, by the processor, the target travel destination with the topic of conversation planned by the user to occur with the at least one person at the target travel destination comprises:

providing the user interface on a display panel of a vehicle that allows user configuration of the target travel destination with the topic of conversation;

deriving, responsive to receiving topic identifying information from the user via the user interface, destination-configured topic information search criteria based upon the received topic identifying information; and

confirming with the user accuracy of destination-configured topic information retrieved responsive to a destination-configured topic information search performed using the derived destination-configured topic information search criteria.

3. The method of claim 1, where obtaining the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination comprises:

retrieving destination-configured topic search criteria associated with the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination; and

performing a destination-configured topic information search using the destination-configured topic search criteria.

4. The method of claim 1, where obtaining the information with the publication time stamps after the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination comprises:

identifying destination-configured topic information search results with time stamps prior to the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination; and

removing the identified destination-configured topic information search results with the time stamps prior to the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination.

5. The method of claim 1, where providing the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination comprises:

translating retrieved text-based destination-configured topic information search results to audio-formatted destination-configured topic information search results using text-to-speech recognition; and

outputting the audio-formatted destination-configured topic information search results using speakers of a vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination.

6. The method of claim 1, where the updated information about the topic of conversation comprises audio/video destination-configured topic information search results and where providing the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination comprises:

rendering video output of the audio/video destination-configured topic information search results on a display of a vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination; and

outputting associated audio of the audio/video destination-configured topic information search results using speakers of the vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination.

7. A system, comprising:

a user interface; and

a processor programmed to;

configure a target travel destination with a topic of conversation planned by a user to occur with at least one person at the target travel destination;

detect, within the user interface, a selection of the target travel destination by the user;

retrieve a search time stamp associated with a time of a last-detected user travel to the target travel destination;

obtain updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, where, in being programmed to obtain the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, the processor is programmed to obtain information with publication time stamps after the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination; and

provide the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination.

8. The system of claim 7, where, in being programmed to configure the target travel destination with the topic of conversation planned by the user to occur with the at least one person at the target travel destination, the processor is programmed to:

provide the user interface on a display panel of a vehicle that allows user configuration of the target travel destination with the topic of conversation;

derive, responsive to receiving topic identifying information from the user via the user interface, destination-configured topic information search criteria based upon the received topic identifying information; and

confirm with the user accuracy of destination-configured topic information retrieved responsive to a destination-configured topic information search performed using the derived destination-configured topic information search criteria.

9. The system of claim 7, where, in being programmed to obtain the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, the processor is programmed to:

retrieve destination-configured topic search criteria associated with the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination; and

perform a destination-configured topic information search using the destination-configured topic search criteria.

10. The system of claim 7, where, in being programmed to obtain the information with the publication time stamps after the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination, the processor is programmed to:

identify destination-configured topic information search results with time stamps prior to the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination; and

remove the identified destination-configured topic information search results with the time stamps prior to the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination.

11. The system of claim 7, where, in being programmed to provide the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination, the processor is programmed to:

translate retrieved text-based destination-configured topic information search results to audio-formatted destination-configured topic information search results using text-to-speech recognition; and

output the audio-formatted destination-configured topic information search results using speakers of a vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination.

18. The system of claim 7, where the updated information about the topic of conversation comprises audio/video destination-configured topic information search results and where, in being programmed to provide the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination, the processor is programmed to:

render video output of the audio/video destination-configured topic information search results on a display of a vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination; and

output associated audio of the audio/video destination-configured topic information search results using speakers of the vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination.

12. A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, where the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, and where the computer readable program code when executed on a computer causes the computer to;

configure a target travel destination with a topic of conversation planned by a user to occur with at least one person at the target travel destination;

detect, within a user interface, a selection of the target travel destination by the user;

retrieve a search time stamp associated with a time of a last-detected user travel to the target travel destination;

obtain updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, where, in causing the computer to obtain the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, the computer readable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to obtain information with publication time stamps after the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination; and

provide the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, where, in causing the computer to configure the target travel destination with the topic of conversation planned by the user to occur with the at least one person at the target travel destination, the computer readable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to:

provide the user interface on a display panel of a vehicle that allows user configuration of the target travel destination with the topic of conversation;

derive, responsive to receiving topic identifying information from the user via the user interface, destination-configured topic information search criteria based upon the received topic identifying information; and

confirm with the user accuracy of destination-configured topic information retrieved responsive to a destination-configured topic information search performed using the derived destination-configured topic information search criteria.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, where, in causing the computer to obtain the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination, the computer readable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to:

retrieve destination-configured topic search criteria associated with the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination; and

perform a destination-configured topic information search using the destination-configured topic search criteria.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, where, in causing the computer to obtain the information with the publication time stamps after the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination, the computer readable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to:

identify destination-configured topic information search results with time stamps prior to the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination; and

remove the identified destination-configured topic information search results with the time stamps prior to the search time stamp associated with the time of the last-detected user travel to the target travel destination.

16. The computer program product of claim 12, where, in causing the computer to provide the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination, the computer readable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to:

translate retrieved text-based destination-configured topic information search results to audio-formatted destination-configured topic information search results using text-to-speech recognition; and

output the audio-formatted destination-configured topic information search results using speakers of a vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination.

17. The computer program product of claim 12, where the updated information about the topic of conversation comprises audio/video destination-configured topic information search results and where, in causing the computer to provide the updated information about the topic of conversation configured with the target travel destination to the user during the user'"'"'s travel to the target travel destination, the computer readable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to:

render video output of the audio/video destination-configured topic information search results on a display of a vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination; and

output associated audio of the audio/video destination-configured topic information search results using speakers of the vehicle within which the user is traveling to the target travel destination.