169 results about "Context management" patented technology

A method for performing context management, said method comprising the steps of: producing a continuous physiologic signal, as detected by a monitoring device; associating at least one unique hardware identifier to said continuous physiologic signal and binding a unique patient identifier to said continuous signal wherein a change in said physiologic signal in which said signal is no longer continuous will cause the unique patient identifier to unbind from said signal.

A method for controlling the interoperation of a plurality of software applications and resources includes intercepting communications from a first application to a second application or resource, directing the communication to a context management system, generating a candidate list of contexts for the communication, evaluating the candidate list according to at least one policy defined for these contexts to identify the resultant action and namespace for the communication, and performing the action as defined by the policies within the identified namespace. The method further includes tracking one or more versions of the second application, as well as tracking an evolution of application and / or resource names. The method further includes identifying one or more operations associated with a context on the candidate list, and executing the identified operations prior to a further communication.

Apparatus for mediating between a cellular telephony network and a wireless LAN, comprises a first adaptor for allowing signal exchange with the cellular telephony network, a second adaptor for allowing signal exchange with the wireless LAN; and a presence tracker associated with the adaptors for obtaining and storing a current location of a wireless device on any of the networks. The apparatus allows for mobile wireless devices to connect to wireless LANs and be able to register and receive services from their mobile operator, by treating the LAN in the same way as a foreign network in International roaming.

A sensing and context management architecture that can detect that a user is interacting with a given device and in an associated context, and in response thereto, manages device processes as the user moves from device to device, location to location, and / or context to context. The invention comprises a system that facilitates management of a user situation or context. A sensing component is provided that senses a context of a user by way of one or more sensors and / or a particular device with which the user is interacting in the context, for example, and a management component that manages the device and / or one or more services in the context according to rules or inferences user preferences, sensed observations, and user input data.

A system for assisting a collaborative activity includes a plurality of work interfaces, a role management unit, a workflow management unit, a collaborative activity registration unit, and an activity context management unit situated between the plurality of work interfaces and the collaborative activity registration unit to receive entered information from one of the work interfaces, to associate shared information contained in the entered information with user information provided by the role management unit and an activity content provided by the workflow management unit to create collaborative activity information, and to cause the collaborative activity registration unit to register the collaborative activity information.

Systems and methods are provided for managing alerts provided to a user of a mobile device based on context of the mobile device. For example, a perimeter of a geo fence can be decreased when the mobile device enters a particular context (such as when the user is traveling on a train), thereby decreasing unwanted alerts. As another example, certain alerts can be dynamically turned on based on the device entering a specified context (e.g., a particular application being executed or the mobile device is being carried by the user as the user is running), thereby allowing the user to receive alerts that he / she would not have otherwise received.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved diagnostic reading and workflow in a healthcare environment using rules-based context management. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of information sources, wherein each of the plurality of information sources includes information. The system also includes a rules engine including at least one rule governing at least one of availability and presentation of information. In addition, the system includes a context manager for obtaining information from the plurality of information sources based on a query and filtering the information based on the at least one rule. In an embodiment, the information sources include an information system and / or an imaging system, for example.

The invention is directed to an integrated computerized product lifecycle manager and requirements manager system for associating high-level requirements data with everyday product lifecycle management activities. The system includes a networked database comprised of one or more central computerized data servers, and a plurality of user computers (terminals, workstations) connected to the central server or servers by a computer data network. The server or servers will usually run multiple software modules such as database modules, various product lifecycle management modules, data viewer and decoder modules, and requirements management modules all operating in an integrated manner so that selected portions of the requirements tree, from the top high-level requirements to more detailed low level requirements, can be presented to users in a context relevant manner. The invention additionally includes context management module by which selected portions of the requirements data may be exposed or redacted according to organizational needs.

The invention discloses a smart home system based on context awareness, comprising a sensor, an execution part, a user recognizer, a smart home control module, a context management module, a context extracting module and a context reasoning module. When a user uses the smart home control module to operate, the smart home control module triggers corresponding action to sense the basic information and the environment position information of the user to be sent to the context extracting module; the context extracting module generates the basic context information and advanced context information which are sent to the context reasoning module; according to the context information, the context reasoning module invokes a user preference record from the context management module and matches the user preference record with the basic context information for reasoning; the context management module stores the operation record of the user, and the operation record can be invoked by the context extracting module and the context reasoning module. The smart home system based on the context awareness of the invention has the advantages of high and active intellectualization and favourable configurability.

A method and system dynamically and contextually manage information in an electronic computational environment. In one aspect, a desired project provides a context for management of a plurality of information elements, each element being in at least one of a plurality of categories. Each category in turn is a member of a category set, and the category set includes data category, function category, and result category. The context corresponds to at least one model that is defined by the elements and a set of rules governing permissible relationships among the elements. The method includes: receiving an input to the environment specifying a relationship among at least two information elements; using an integrity engine, operating to enforce such rules, to verify dynamically correctness of the relationship specified; and upon acceptance of the relation by the integrity engine, storing automatically the relationship specified, so as to permit dynamic interaction with respect to the context. The relation can be specified and implemented on the fly, without a preconceived design process. Related systems are also provided.

A sensing and context management architecture that can detect that a user is interacting with a given device and in an associated context, and in response thereto, manages device processes as the user moves from device to device, location to location, and / or context to context. The invention comprises a system that facilitates management of a user situation or context. A sensing component is provided that senses a context of a user by way of one or more sensors and / or a particular device with which the user is interacting in the context, for example, and a management component that manages the device and / or one or more services in the context according to rules or inferences user preferences, sensed observations, and user input data.

A system, method and computer program product for visualization of context-based search results, including a plurality of neurons, the neurons being associated with words and documents; a plurality of connections between the neurons; a map that displays at least some of the neurons to a user, wherein the display of the neurons on the map corresponds to their relevance to a search query; a display of the links to the relevant documents; and means for changing positions of the neurons relative to each other based on input from the user. Changing a position of one neuron relative to other neurons also changes positions of other contextually relevant neurons, and displays different relevant documents. The map displays the neurons with their relevance identified by any of font type, color, transparency and font size. The map includes icons in proximity to the displayed word neurons for identifying those neurons as irrelevant. Links to the documents are obtained from a search engine having an input query. The map displays annotations and / or keywords to the documents next to the displayed documents.

In an access network which supports a mobile IP protocol, a packet data protocol context is opened at support node and a gateway node in order to establish a connection between a mobile node and a mobile IP foreign agent located at the gateway node. A mobile IP registration over the connection is initiated. The gateway node monitors whether the registration is successful or fails. The PDP context is deleted, if the registration irrecoverably fails. If the registration was unsuccessful but a retry could be successful, the PDP context may not deleted, but the registration is retried.

A context management and administration system includes a context manager, which manages the context of plural applications programs, and an administration suite, which oversees and manages the manager. Context administration can include setting up and maintaining subject data definitions, intervening in context manager operations, providing security functions to protect sensitive context information against tampering by unauthorized users, etc.

Methods and apparatus related to context management in a networked environment are provided. According to one aspect, a technique is provided for facilitating communication between a client and a context management (CM) server, comprising establishing a network connection between the client and the CM server to enable communication, and maintaining the connection for the period of time during which the context is maintained. According to another aspect, a requested change in at least one aspect of a context is facilitated by publishing a change decision from the context management server to the participant applications. In another aspect, a technique is employed to verify that a remote application is emulated on the same client as at least one other application in a context by receiving from the client and the remote application server information that uniquely identifies the client. In a further aspect, a technique is employed for verifying that two remote applications are emulated on a same client by receiving information from the remote applications that uniquely identifies the client on which they are emulated.

The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for the policy based provisioning and management of a collaborative context. A policy based application provisioning system for use in a collaborative environment can include a policy having rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment. A context provisioning process can be coupled to the policy and configured to create collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment limited by the rules in the policy. Finally, a context management process can be coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment.

A method (200, 300) of managing mobile context and advertising over a communications network based on the context. The method includes identifying (204) a context (146, 152) associated with a communication sent to or received by a remote unit belonging to the user group of remote units. The method also includes determining (212) whether the identified context is associated with one or more advertisements by querying correlation data (144) to identify advertisements having context that correlates to the identified context. When the identified context is associated with one or more advertisements, the method includes transmitting (214) the one or more advertisements to at least one remote unit belonging to the user group.

A packet data network gateway and a UE mobility management system are disclosed. In the packet data network gateway, a context management unit is configured to: when the P-GW is selected as the UE's target P-GW, create a context for the UE and store the UE's context information from S-GW and a source P-GW to which the UE is currently attached; an identity management unit is configured to: assign a location identity including the UE's routing information to the UE. The present invention reselects a P-GW for the UE to attach, thereby eliminating the circuitous routing in the process of the UE connecting and using services, saving transmission bearer resources, reducing transmission delay of data packet, and ensuring that the UE is still reachable after changing the attached P-GW, thus neither the UE nor the peer end is aware of the movement of the UE in the IP level.

An apparatus and method for providing a context-aware service are provided. The apparatus includes a context-aware service object (CAS) management module managing information on a CAS and a context defined by the CAS, a sensor management module managing information on a sensor and requesting the sensor to observe knowledge, and a context management module informing the CAS management module of a CAS defining a context provided by the CAS management module when observed knowledge satisfies the context defined by the CAS, wherein upon being informed of the CAS by the context management module, the CAS management module requests the CAS to provide a service.

The method of asynchronous delivery of digital data according to the invention is implemented in at least one server system and at least one client system connected via a network. According to the method, at the time of a request for data coming from a client system, an item of context information (CINF) representing a first state of the client system on sending out the request is associated with the latter. On delivering to the client system a response, the response incorporates the context information (CINF). The client system is adapted to put itself in a second state analogous to the first state mentioned above, in accordance with the context information (CINF, CUID). The method according to the invention provides context management enabling the user to associate the responses received with requests sometimes made well beforehand.

Provided are an ontology system, a method for managing the ontology system, and a recording medium storing the same. The ontology system includes: a context broker unit for receiving context information from a sensing device and verifying a validity of the received context information; a context managing unit for controlling to generate an ontology structure by transforming the verified context information from the context broker unit to ontology web language (OWL) data and processing the OWL data; a rule-based inference engine unit for transforming the processed context information from the context managing unit to semantic web rule language (SWRL) data and processing the SWRL data through an inference process; a learning managing unit for processing the processed context information from the context managing unit through learning; and a database for storing the context information processed at the context managing unit, the rule-based engine unit, and the learning managing unit.

A packet data protocol (PDP) context management method is provided. The PDP context management method enables a mobile station to manage the PDP contexts of networks integrally by evaluating PDP context capacities of the networks in a proactive manner. A packet service method of the present invention includes creating a network information table after activating a packet data protocol (PDP) context to a network, determining, when a multiple PDP context activation is requested, whether the network has a multiple PDP context capacity with reference to the network information table, requesting, if the network has a multiple PDP context capacity, a multiple PDP context activation to the network and stopping, if the network has a multiple PDP context capacity, attempt of a multiple PDP context activation to the network.

Methods and apparatus related to context management in a networked environment are provided. According to one aspect, a technique is provided for facilitating communication between a client and a context management (CM) server, comprising establishing a network connection between the client and the CM server to enable communication, and maintaining the connection for the period of time during which the context is maintained. According to another aspect, a requested change in at least one aspect of a context is facilitated by publishing a change decision from the context management server to the participant applications. In another aspect, a technique is employed to verify that a remote application is emulated on the same client as at least one other application in a context by receiving from the client and the remote application server information that uniquely identifies the client. In a further aspect, a technique is employed for verifying that two remote applications are emulated on a same client by receiving information from the remote applications that uniquely identifies the client on which they are emulated.

Systems and methods are provided for managing alerts provided to a user of a mobile device based on context of the mobile device. For example, a perimeter of a geo fence can be decreased when the mobile device enters a particular context (such as when the user is traveling on a train), thereby decreasing unwanted alerts. As another example, certain alerts can be dynamically turned on based on the device entering a specified context (e.g., a particular application being executed or the mobile device is being carried by the user as the user is running), thereby allowing the user to receive alerts that he / she would not have otherwise received.

The present invention includes a Command Queuing Engine (CQE) that is a firmware-assist block which processes some of the firmware tasks related to command and context management preferably for SCSI. When enabled, CQE will decode SCSI commands as they arrive, and determine if DMA contexts can be automatically configured and started to transfer the data for those commands. CQE can also program DMA contexts to automatically return status information either after the disk has completed a transfer (as in non-cached writes) or after the DMA transfer is completed (as in reads or cached writes). CQE also utilizes a buffer-based linked-list to queue the SCSI commands as they arrive for future DMA context configuration. The present invention provides automated recognition and linking of commands belonging to a common thread, i.e., are sequential. The present invention also provides extensive thread boundary information and flexible firmware control for reordering commands. Automatic TE entry generation and storage to buffer memory, and automatic TE retrieval from the buffer memory and execution of entire command threads are further features provided by the present invention. As a result, bus command response latency is decreased by reducing the delay for the command to be started and at the end of the data transfer for status to be send. Disk efficiency is increased by reducing the latency to back-fill or empty a buffer memory segment of data that will be transferred. Furthermore, the present invention is a low-cost trade-off between hardware and firmware functionality.

A method and a system of managing conflicts between context-aware applications by use of semantics of abstract service for group context information management. The method includes detecting and resolving a conflict between context-aware applications; upon receiving a service request from an application, analyzing a semantic of the requested service; and registering the semantic into a data structure. A determination is made whether a conflict between service actions occurs in the data structure and when the conflict occurs, removing the semantics of the conflicting service actions from the data structure. The conflict between the service actions arises when actions of the valid applications according to the user policies contradict the same context information in the data structure. After removing the semantics of the service actions from the data structure, a resolution policy for the conflict is generated, and a new service is requested according to the resolution policy.

Server appliances provide context management functionality in the healthcare field and other fields. The server appliances may present themselves on a network as one or more World Wide Web sites accessible to applications whose context is managed.

A model in which filter drivers are managed to receive callbacks for I / O requests in which the filter drivers have registered an interest. Per-volume instances of filter drivers register with a filter manager for pre-callbacks (for I / O to the file system) and post-callbacks (for I / O from the file system), and identify which I / O requests (e.g., create, read, write) they are registering to receive callbacks. The filter manager orders the instances for callbacks. When an I / O request is received, the filter manager converts the I / O request to callback data and calls the interested filters in the callback order, whereby the filter instances can process the I / O data. As the request returns from the file system, filters desiring post callbacks are called in the reverse order. Efficient context management for the filters and other functions, such as non-reentrant file I / O, are also provided by the model.