公开(公告)号：US20060156252A1

公开(公告)日：2006-07-13

申请号：US11200546

申请日：2005-08-09

申请人： Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Alan Messer

发明人： Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Alan Messer

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： H04L12/2803 ,  H04L12/2812 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04L67/18 ,  H04L67/306

摘要： A system and method in a network of devices, which ascertains the user's context to suggest the most preferred task for the user to perform. User's context includes his/her location, the content he/she is interested in, the devices which are being used by him/her, and the devices and content allowed to be used by the user. Using this context, the system suggests tasks to the user that are appropriate to that context. The determination of context and the suggestion of tasks are performed by keeping track of the content and the devices available to the user at any given time. The suggestion of tasks is performed in accordance with certain policies. For example, the user can control the behavior of the system by changing the rules in the policy. Tasks are in the form of simple sentences that can be easily understood by the user. If, based on certain context, more than one task is possible, the system suggests the task with the highest priority to the user.

摘要翻译： 一种设备网络中的系统和方法，其确定用户的上下文以建议用户执行最优选的任务。 用户的上下文包括他/她的位置，他/她感兴趣的内容，他/她正在使用的设备以及用户允许使用的设备和内容。 使用此上下文，系统向用户建议适合该上下文的任务。 通过在任何给定的时间跟踪用户可用的内容和设备来执行上下文的确定和任务的建议。 任务的建议是按照某些政策进行的。 例如，用户可以通过更改策略中的规则来控制系统的行为。 任务是简单句子的形式，用户可以很容易理解。 如果基于某些上下文，可能有多个任务是可能的，系统会向用户建议具有最高优先级的任务。

公开(公告)号：US08782056B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-15

申请号：US13470112

申请日：2012-05-11

申请人： Alan Messer ,  Doreen Cheng ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Pryiang Rathod ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Simon J. Gibbs

发明人： Alan Messer ,  Doreen Cheng ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Pryiang Rathod ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Simon J. Gibbs

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04N21/6175 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  G06F17/3005 ,  G06F17/30796 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  H04N7/17309 ,  H04N21/4348 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/6125

摘要： A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. Facilitating searches involves obtaining information about the user interests, identifying potential data of interest to the user, extracting data related to the data of interest to the user, and collecting the extracted related data for presentation to the user on the device.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于促进对电子设备的用户的信息搜索的方法和系统。 促进搜索涉及获取关于用户兴趣的信息，识别用户感兴趣的潜在数据，提取与用户感兴趣的数据有关的数据，以及收集所提取的相关数据以便呈现给设备上的用户。

公开(公告)号：US08510453B2

公开(公告)日：2013-08-13

申请号：US11726340

申请日：2007-03-21

申请人： Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Alan Messer

发明人： Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Alan Messer

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06F17/30997

摘要： A correlation system and method implement a framework for correlating content available from a local network with information on an external network. The system identifies information related to content available on the local network of interest to the user and also identifies one or more external sources that contain such related information. Then the system extracts data related to the identified information from the external sources, and determines correlations between the identified information and the data extracted from the external network.

摘要翻译： 相关系统和方法实现将来自本地网络的内容与外部网络上的信息相关联的框架。 系统识别与用户感兴趣的本地网络上可用的内容相关的信息，并且还识别包含这些相关信息的一个或多个外部源。 然后系统从外部来源提取与识别信息相关的数据，并确定所识别的信息与从外部网络提取的数据之间的相关性。

公开(公告)号：US08200688B2

公开(公告)日：2012-06-12

申请号：US11969778

申请日：2008-01-04

申请人： Alan Messer ,  Doreen Cheng ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Simon J. Gibbs

发明人： Alan Messer ,  Doreen Cheng ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Simon J. Gibbs

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04N21/6175 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  G06F17/3005 ,  G06F17/30796 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  H04N7/17309 ,  H04N21/4348 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/6125

摘要： A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. Facilitating searches involves obtaining information about the user interests, identifying potential data of interest to the user, extracting data related to said data of interest to the user, and collecting the extracted related data for presentation to the user on the device.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于促进对电子设备的用户的信息搜索的方法和系统。 促进搜索涉及获取关于用户兴趣的信息，识别用户感兴趣的潜在数据，提取与所述用户感兴趣的数据有关的数据，以及收集所提取的相关数据以呈现给设备上的用户。

公开(公告)号：US08115869B2

公开(公告)日：2012-02-14

申请号：US11821938

申请日：2007-06-26

申请人： Priyang Rathod ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Alan Messer

发明人： Priyang Rathod ,  Phuong Nguyen ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Alan Messer

IPC分类号： H04N5/445 ,  H04N7/087

CPC分类号： H04N21/84 ,  G06F17/30796 ,  H04N21/4348 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/4668

摘要： A method and system for extracting relevant information from content metadata is provided. User access to content is monitored. A set of extraction rules for information extraction is selected. Key information is extracted from metadata for the content based on the selected extraction rules. Additionally, a type for the content can be determined, and a set of extraction rules is selected based on the content type. The key information is used in queries for searching information of potential interest to the user, related to the content accessed.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种从内容元数据中提取相关信息的方法和系统。 监控用户对内容的访问。 选择一组提取信息的提取规则。 基于所选择的提取规则，从内容的元数据中提取密钥信息。 此外，可以确定内容的类型，并且基于内容类型选择一组提取规则。 关键信息用于搜索与所访问的内容相关的用户潜在兴趣的信息的查询。

公开(公告)号：US08069422B2

公开(公告)日：2011-11-29

申请号：US11200546

申请日：2005-08-09

申请人： Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Alan Messer

发明人： Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Alan Messer

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： H04L12/2803 ,  H04L12/2812 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04L67/18 ,  H04L67/306

摘要： A system and method in a network of devices, which ascertains the user's context to suggest the most preferred task for the user to perform. User's context includes his/her location, the content he/she is interested in, the devices which are being used by him/her, and the devices and content allowed to be used by the user. Using this context, the system suggests tasks to the user that are appropriate to that context. The determination of context and the suggestion of tasks are performed by keeping track of the content and the devices available to the user at any given time. The suggestion of tasks is performed in accordance with certain policies. For example, the user can control the behavior of the system by changing the rules in the policy. Tasks are in the form of simple sentences that can be easily understood by the user. If, based on certain context, more than one task is possible, the system suggests the task with the highest priority to the user.

摘要翻译： 一种设备网络中的系统和方法，其确定用户的上下文以建议用户执行最优选的任务。 用户的上下文包括他/她的位置，他/她感兴趣的内容，他/她正在使用的设备以及用户允许使用的设备和内容。 使用此上下文，系统向用户建议适合该上下文的任务。 通过在任何给定的时间跟踪用户可用的内容和设备来执行上下文的确定和任务的建议。 任务的建议是按照某些政策进行的。 例如，用户可以通过更改策略中的规则来控制系统的行为。 任务是简单句子的形式，用户可以很容易理解。 如果基于某些上下文，可能有多个任务是可能的，系统会向用户建议具有最高优先级的任务。

公开(公告)号：US20090112848A1

公开(公告)日：2009-04-30

申请号：US11981019

申请日：2007-10-31

申请人： Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Alan Messer

发明人： Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Alan Messer

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30796 ,  G06F17/3082 ,  G06F17/3084 ,  G06F17/3097

摘要： A method and system implementing a process for suggesting search queries on an electronic device is provided. The process involves displaying terms related to content accessed by a user for selection by the user, obtaining one or more key terms related to a user-selected term, and displaying the one or more key terms to the user as query suggestions corresponding to the selected term. Obtaining one or more key terms involves obtaining one or more key terms related to the selected term, based on local content information and/or external content information.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种实现用于在电子设备上建议搜索查询的过程的方法和系统。 该过程涉及显示与用户所访问的内容相关的术语以供用户选择，获得与用户选择的术语相关的一个或多个关键术语，以及将一个或多个关键术语显示给用户作为对应于所选择的查询建议 术语。 获得一个或多个关键术语涉及基于本地内容信息和/或外部内容信息来获得与所选择的术语相关的一个或多个关键术语。

公开(公告)号：US20080288641A1

公开(公告)日：2008-11-20

申请号：US11803826

申请日：2007-05-15

申请人： Alan Messer ,  Doreen Cheng ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Priyang Rathod

发明人： Alan Messer ,  Doreen Cheng ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Priyang Rathod

IPC分类号： G06F15/173 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30663 ,  G06F17/30867

摘要： A method and system for providing information to a user of a device on a local network is provided. This involves obtaining information about current user activity on the local network, obtaining contextual information about current user activity on the local network and obtaining additional information interrelated to the contextual information and the user activity information. Then correlations are identified between the additional information, the contextual information and the user activity information. The correlations are used in forming a query to search for information related to the current user activity, to provide to the user.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于向本地网络上的设备的用户提供信息的方法和系统。 这涉及获取关于本地网络上的当前用户活动的信息，获得关于本地网络上的当前用户活动的上下文信息，并获得与上下文信息和用户活动信息相关的附加信息。 然后在附加信息，上下文信息和用户活动信息之间识别相关性。 相关性用于形成查询以搜索与当前用户活动相关的信息，以提供给用户。

公开(公告)号：US20080221989A1

公开(公告)日：2008-09-11

申请号：US11969837

申请日：2008-01-04

申请人： Alan Messer ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Phuong Nguyen

发明人： Alan Messer ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Priyang Rathod ,  Phuong Nguyen

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0273 ,  G06Q30/0277

摘要： A method and system for providing sponsored content on an electronic device are provided. One implementation involves, in the electronic device, providing sponsored content to a user of the device based on information locally available to the device, and generating an indication of said providing sponsored content for enabling distribution of at least a portion of compensation from a sponsor of the sponsored content to a manufacturer of the device for said providing sponsored content.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于在电子设备上提供赞助内容的方法和系统。 一个实现涉及在电子设备中，基于设备本地可用的信息向所述设备的用户提供赞助的内容，以及生成所述提供赞助内容的指示，以使得能够从至少一部分补偿分发来自 赞助的内容提供给所述提供赞助内容的设备的制造商。

公开(公告)号：US20070261055A1

公开(公告)日：2007-11-08

申请号：US11429375

申请日：2006-05-04

申请人： Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Alan Messer

发明人： Anugeetha Kunjithapatham ,  Mithun Sheshagiri ,  Alan Messer

IPC分类号： G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F9/5038

摘要： A task access system implements a methodology that facilitates one to explore and execute tasks possible in a network such as a home network environment. The system provides interfaces to access task information and supports several types of functionalities that help in customization of the task information based on the requesting user's state/context. The system supports composing a task request in different ways. It allows a task request to be composed and executed in an incremental fashion or at one-go, thus enabling user interface applications to be flexible. When a user requests to know the tasks available in the network, the system applies security policies and more user context information to customize and prioritize the tasks available for each user and ensures that the user interface application does not display tasks that are not executable by the user. Further, the system dynamically updates the user interface application based on the user input and any changes in the network environment, such as addition or removal of devices/services, thus ensuring only meaningful information is displayed to the user. In addition, the user is updated with the newly possible tasks and the ones no longer available. By dynamically updating the choices available for the user, the system effectively guides the user input.

摘要翻译： 任务访问系统实现一种便于在诸如家庭网络环境的网络中探索和执行可能的任务的方法。 该系统提供了访问任务信息的接口，并支持几种类型的功能，这些功能有助于根据请求用户的状态/上下文定制任务信息。 系统支持以不同的方式组合任务请求。 它允许以增量方式或一次性组合和执行任务请求，从而使用户界面应用程序变得灵活。 当用户请求知道网络中可用的任务时，系统应用安全策略和更多的用户上下文信息来自定义并为每个用户提供可用任务的优先级，并确保用户界面应用程序不显示不可执行的任务 用户。 此外，系统基于用户输入和网络环境中的任何改变来动态地更新用户界面应用，诸如添加或移除设备/服务，从而确保仅向用户显示有意义的信息。 此外，用户可以更新新可能的任务，而不再可用。 通过动态地更新可用于用户的选项，系统有效地引导用户输入。