US 11,539,765 B2Granted

Sharing user context and preferences

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsBoaz Ein-Gil, Shimi Ezra, Shira Weinberg, Mikael Sitruk

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Abstract

Technology for interoperability is disclosed by enabling the sharing of user context or preferences for a computing experience across computing devices, operating systems, applications, or locations. A platform and application programming interface (API) are provided for computer applications and services to store and retrieve context data associated with a computing experience. Access to the context data for sharing may be managed by an access controller, which enables a user to manage access permissions for the sharing of the context data. The context data may be defined according to a common schema, which specifies the information for sharing and may be communicated using common communication channels or protocols. Thus context data may be shared across nearly any application or service including those developed in different computer programming languages or operating on different types of computing devices or devices running different operating systems or by different software developers.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for replicating a context of a user experience, from a first user session on a first user device, on a second user device configured differently than the first user device, the system comprising:

one or more sensors configured to provide sensor data;
a context monitor configured to monitor the context of the user experience on a computing device;
an API layer configured to facilitate, using an API, communication of context data with a server controlling access to a data store;
at least one processor;
and
computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the at least one processor, implement a method for storing the context of the user experience, from the first user session on the first user device, in a manner to facilitate replication of the context on the second user device configured differently than the first user device, the method comprising:
monitoring, by the context monitor, the sensor data corresponding to the first user session involving a task performed on the first user device;
based on the sensor data, determining the task and a schema corresponding to the task, the schema specifying a data structure for representing the context of the first user session and comprising data elements characterizing aspects of the first user session;
determining context data associated with the first user session based on the schema and the sensor data;
and
communicating, using the API layer, the context data to the server controlling access to the data store for storage of the context data on the data store in a user account associated with a user of the first user device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/010,361Filed 2 Sep 2020 · continuation
Priority: 30 Jun 2016
Published: US 2021/0075836 A111 Mar 2021
Granted: 27 Dec 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 65/403
Support for services or applications: arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences
G06F 9/468
Multiprogramming arrangements: specific access rights for resources, e.g. using capability register
G06F 9/4856
Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution: resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine…
H04L 63/08
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for authentication of entities

Family

Application15/198,675Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jun 2016
Application16/425,547Parent of this continuation · filed 29 May 2019
US 10,313,404 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 4 Jun 2019
US 2021/0075836 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Mar 2021
US 10,771,517 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0007099 A1Published application
US 2019/0281095 A1Published application
US 11,539,765 B2This patent

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