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US 8,275,399 · App. 12/782,572 · Granted Sep 25, 2012

Dynamic context-data tag cloud

Assignee: Buckyball Mobile Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,275,399
App. No.
12/782,572
Granted
Sep 25, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of a dynamic context-data tag cloud. A context data from a context-enriched message is acquired. A context-data tag that corresponds to the context data is generated. A context-data tag cloud comprising at least one context-data tag is provided. A mobile device that generated the context-enriched message for an updated context data may be queried. A depiction value of the context data may be updated according to an updated context-data value. The context-data tag cloud may include a visual cue of an attribute of the context data.

Claims (44)

1. A method comprising:

parsing a context-enriched message with a server;

acquiring a context data from the context-enriched message;

generating a context-data tag that corresponds to the context data, wherein the context-data tag comprises a term that describes a context data attribute and wherein a display of the context data is weighted by the value of the context-data as a function of time; and

rendering a context-data tag cloud comprising at least one context-data tag into a format accessible by a web browser.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

querying the mobile device that generated the context-enriched message for an updated context data.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

generating a second context-data tag that represents the updated context data.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

integrating the context-data tag cloud with another context-data tag cloud.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

visually depicting the value of the context data with the context-data tag.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

updating a depiction value of the context data according to an updated context-data value.

7. The method of claim 1 :

wherein the context-data tag cloud comprises a visual cue of an attribute of the context data.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context-data tag comprises a graphical metaphor of the context data.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context data comprises a data obtained from a near field communication sensor of the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the depiction of the context-data tag comprises a virtual control that triggers the generation of an instruction to the mobile device to provide an updated context data.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein a machine is caused to perform the method of claim 1 when a set of instructions in a form of a non-carrier wave machine-readable medium is executed by the machine.

12. A method comprising:

obtaining a first context data of a first environmental attribute of a mobile device;

obtaining a second context data of a second environmental attribute of the mobile device;

generating a tag cloud comprising a first component that describes the first context data and a second component that describes the second context data;

modifying a display attribute of the first component according to the first context data as a function of time;

modifying a display attribute of the second component according to the second context data as a function of time;

and

rendering the context-data tag cloud into a format accessible by a web browser.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

associating a metadata term with the context data, and wherein the metadata term comprises a text that describes an attribute of the context data.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

incorporating the text into a web document.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the tag cloud comprises a text component of a context-enriched message.

16. The method of claim 12 , wherein the metadata term comprises a pre-specified tag associated with a type of context data.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

periodically obtaining a substantially current value of the context data.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

periodically revising the text to describe the substantially current value of the context data.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

providing a control element in the web document that allows a user to initiate a revision of the text to describe the substantially current value of the context data.

20. The method of claim 12 , wherein the context data comprises a context data of a mobile device extracted from a context-enriched multimedia messaging service (MMS) message.

21. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first component comprises an icon that depends on a meaning of the first context data.

22. The method of claim 21 , wherein the icon's size is periodically modulated according to the first context data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2012
From: PETERS, RICHARD R; KARMARKAR, AMIT V
To: BUCKYBALL MOBILE INC.
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Continuity (6)
Continuation In Part 12770626 · Apr 29, 2010
Continuation In Part 12422313 · Apr 13, 2009
Continuation In Part 11519600 · Sep 11, 2006
Continuation In Part 11231575 · Sep 21, 2005
Provisional Application 61161763 · Mar 19, 2009
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