Interacting with Simulated Phenomena
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Method and system for interacting with simulated phenomena |
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Commerce-enabled environment for interacting with simulated phenomena |
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Simulated phenomena interaction game |
Problem: Though computers are capable of tracking a wide array of user behaviors, they provide limited situation-specific content and capabilities.
Solution: Provide an extensible, sharable, self-regulating user context and history model that can be used to respond to and predict user intentions and actions.
Commercial Benefit: A history of user behavior, especially across all user's computing/communication devices, provides opportunities to:
- target messages appropriate to user's needs and current task and circumstance
- optimize UI for task and circumstance
- anticipate user actions based on their habits
Ownership: Microsoft Corporation, purchased from Tangis Corporation in 2007
Granted US Patents:
Requesting computer user’s context data
Supplying enhanced computer user’s context data
Interface for exchanging context data
Automated selection of appropriate information based on a computer user’s context
Automated response to computer user’s context
Automated pushing of computer user’s context data to clients
Supplying notifications related to supply and consumption of user context data
Soliciting information based on a computer user’s context
Storing and recalling information to augment human memories
Managing interaction between computer users’ context models
Contextual responses based on automated learning techniques
Thematic response to a computer user’s context, such as by a wearable personal computer
Dynamically swapping modules for determining a computer user’s context
Mediating conflicts in computer user’s context data
Pending US Patents:
Automated response to computer user’s context
Automated selection of appropriate information based on a computer user’s context
Storing and recalling information to augment human memories
Dynamically swapping modules for determining a computer user’s context
Managing interactions between computer user’s context models
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Dynamically exchanging computer user’s context
Supplying notifications related to supply and consumption of user context data
Thematic response to a computer user’s context, such as by a wearable personal computer
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Dynamically displaying current status of tasks
Soliciting information based on a computer user’s context
Interface for exchanging context data
Contextual responses based on automated learning techniques
Logging and analyzing computer user’s context data
Requesting computer user’s context data
Supplying enhanced computer user’s context data
Mediating conflicts in computer user’s context data
Dynamically determining appropriate computer user interfaces
Dynamically displaying current status of tasks
Dynamic integration of computer generated and real world images
Problem: Broadcasted content, such as cable and satellite TV feeds, are not well integrated into the Windows experience. For example, though PCs have powerful well-accepted file finding and organization tools no accommodation is made for files that have temporality (i.e., a TV program is often only available at a particular time).
Solution: Create an Windows-optimized Electronic Program Guide from familiar UI components that include rich search and browsing capabilities.
Commercial Benefit: Establish Windows as desirable client for watching TV by providing features unavailable on other platforms, such as program-specific hyperlinks in an Electronic Program Guide, or allowing arbitrarily complex queries to select shows. Prototype used as source of Windows Media Guide.
Ownership: Microsoft Corporation
Granted US Patents:
Electronic program guide with hyperlinks to target resources
Pending US Patents:
Query-based electronic program guide
Electronic program guide with hyperlinks to target resources
Problem: A Windows user could only verify the status of a print job by examining the physical printer. This is especially inconvenient if the printer is remote from the user's PC.
Solution: Work with printer manufacturers on a bi-directional communication protocol (IEEE 1284), and then use the sensor data to show print job status in a graphic modeling of the printer.
Commercial Benefit: Enhanced print job status significantly improves user's perception of control. The Windows Printer Status Window was initially released as an upgrade to HP printers, then incorporated into Windows 95 and all subsequent versions.
Ownership: Microsoft Corporation
Granted US Patents:
Printer status user interface and methods relating thereto