Abstract: Method and system for improving personal productivity in home environments may store state information associated with an environment and one or more users in a knowledge base, detected activity of a user, infer location of the user based on the detected activity, and suggest one or more tasks to be performed based on the inferred user location.

Abstract: A method for ranking a plurality of documents relevant to a user profile comprises determining a high resolution representation for the user profile, computing a high resolution representation for each document, calculating a rank for each document based on the high resolution representation of the document and the high resolution representation of the user profile, recalculating the rank for each document based on a lower resolution representation of the document and/or a lower resolution representation of the user profile when the rank of each document is not satisfactory, and outputting a number of the plurality of documents sorted by the rank of each document, when the rank is satisfactory. The high resolution representation can be a discrete wavelet transform. The lower resolution representation can be recalculated by averaging the values of the discrete wavelet transform. Outputting the number of documents can comprise displaying the documents on a device.

Abstract: A system and method for controlled introduction of noise to information filtering, comprises requesting, directly or indirectly, infatuation by a user having a user profile, obtaining the requested information, generating the noise related to the requested information and the user profile, and presenting the requested information and the noise in an information stream. Generating can further comprise finding aggregate profiles relevant to the user profile, obtaining the noise from non-overlapping parts of the aggregate profiles, and prioritizing the noise based on predefined rules. In one embodiment, each of the aggregate profiles comprises at least one characteristic found in the user profile. The aggregate profiles can be constructed using data mining or data aggregation mechanisms. In one embodiment, the noise is generated using random selection or complex selection algorithms.

Abstract: A system and method for processing commentary that is related to content is provided. In an illustrative embodiment, the system and method involves receiving commentary that is related to content and which is generated after generation of the content, and generating data associating the commentary with the content by at least one of spatially linking the commentary to the content or temporally linking the commentary to the content.

Abstract: A method and system for managing awareness information relating to a mobile device's visibility with respect to other buddy devices, the system comprising; the mobile device, a mobile application listing one or more buddies, an application listener which tracks the one or more buddies zoom operations and radar zoom factors, and a server, the server comprising an encounter manager, an approach manager and a notification marshalling system.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for enabling mediated access to information controlled by one or more information repositories by one or more application service providers. The information controlled by the one or more information repositories is associated with one or more subscribers of information-based services offered by the one or more application service providers.

Abstract: System and method to unify multiple service environments to optimize the delivery of telecommunications services include a composite service execution environment providing a common platform for executing a plurality of different execution environments. A service creation environment enables creating of service logic from a plurality of pre-defined software components and one or more inter-method communication components operable to handle communications between the plurality of different execution environments.

Abstract: A system and method for a reactive and personalized exposure of user context to a third party comprises information sources, a context discovery module providing the user context based on the information sources, an identification module obtaining an identity of the third party, a personalization engine, and a rendering system rendering and forwarding a reply to the third party, wherein if the identification module obtains the identity, the personalization engine creates a personalized message in accordance with the user context and the identity and the reply is the personalized message, and if the identification module does not find the identity, the reply is a generic message. The context discovery module and the identification module can each comprise an inferencing engine. The inferencing engine can be associated with a policy engine. Policy engines can be associated with each module and/or engine. The personalization engine can comprise a database of special messages.

Abstract: In wireless mobile device system a distributed set of software and/or hardware components provide continual warnings, monitoring, and explanations of device and system communication issues to mobile devices/users. The warnings and explanations are relevant to past, current, and future communications events that cause end-to-end quality problems such as disruptions including “dropped call”.

Abstract: A system and method for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts, each having a local coordinator, engaging in services comprising an actual coordinator and an intelligence coordinator that determines context regarding the mobile hosts, and leverages the context to enhance the transactions between the local coordinators and the actual coordinator. The context can be leveraged by reducing the number and/or the amount of data of the transactions. The context can comprise a physical location, temporal data, and a network load near and at a network location of the mobile host. The system can also have an application operating on the services, in which the intelligence coordinator can improve performance of the application. The intelligence coordinator can receive and parse a meta-expression piggy-backed on a transaction message to enhance transactions.

Abstract: An inventive system and method for determining and presenting contextual suggestions on a mobile device is presented. The invention comprises a server having an incoming context handler, and a context presentation manager, a notifier, and a goal resolution component all on the mobile device, and user context, wherein the incoming context handler emits an event toward the mobile device, the goal resolution component determines the event causes a change in the user context and forwards notification to the context presentation manager, the notifier receives notification, renders notification on the mobile device, and presents the contextual suggestions based on the change in the user context on the mobile device. The system may further comprise a goal inferral component operable to determine detailed user context based on the event. In one embodiment, the notifier renders notification by causing the mobile device to vibrate, display multiple colors and/or emit sounds.

Abstract: A system and method facilitates the matching of service providers based on certain criteria such as, but not limited to, location of the provider in relation to a customer location, customer requests based on the location of the customer, the type of service requested and other possible attributes such as customer profile, customer past behavior and preferences and service price and quality. Service providers create real-time reverse auctions by using advanced data collection, filtering and disseminating algorithms. In addition, market-makers can provide value-added services, such as real-time traffic conditions and route planning, to their local affiliates. Such a scheme can allow market-makers to economically service customer requests by leveraging the real-time conditions and circumstances of their vast network of local service affiliates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for limiting an amount of information transmitted between user equipment and a server. The method comprises generating local information for transmission, forwarding the local information to a filter, determining a local information type, filtering the local information based upon a preset filter criterion corresponding to the local information; and transmitting the filtered local information.

Abstract: The present invention captures streaming data and avoids continual retrieval. The invention only looks at data once, has a time dependency built into it, and data that is not consumed or relevant is discarded. The invention includes an engine processor that processes data according to stored information; stored rules that define engine operation, an input events module for receiving events which provides a plurality of events. Events are processed according to stored rules for generating a series of valid results when input events match the rules. Rule states that have been matched to an input event but have not produced a valid result are stored in state storage. The state of a rule as stored enables the engine to provide a valid result output upon a future reception of an input event necessary to complete the rule. Transaction log module monitors the operation of the engine for specified time period.

Abstract: A method and system for providing a dynamic key in usage records for correlating the usage data records created in a distributed computer or telecommunications network. The dynamic key is a composite structure which captures and reflects the control flow between the service components. The method as been implemented in a software object that would be resident in each component of a distributed telecommunications system. Specifically, the keys created are dynamic key comprised of at least two fields. The first field is a unique identifier that identifies the session. The second field is number that identifies the position within the sequence of invoked components that the present component was invoked. This dynamic key is forwarded to the next component and is used as the unique identifier and becomes the first field in the next component's key. These keys allow for correlating usage data records from disparate sources to accomplish such activities as billing and/or fraud detection.

Abstract: A method for operating customized information services via a network comprising transmitting the identity U of an end-user station via the network to a name translator station. At the name translator station, the identity U of the end-user station is translated into a pseudonym U'. The pseudonym U' is transmitted from the name translator station via the network to a filter station. The pseudonym U' is transmitted from the filter station via the network to a service provider station. In response, the service provider station transmits to the filter station an encrypted information description describing information available from the service provider station. At the filter station, the encrypted information description is compared with an encrypted information profile of the end-user station to identify specific information to be transmitted from the service provider station to the end-user station.