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US 7,922,086 B2Granted
Obtaining user assistance
AssigneeThe Invention Science Fund I, LLC
InventorsEdward K. Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Jr., Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
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Abstract
An apparatus, device, method, computer program product, and system that detects a first electronic device in a proximity to a second electronic device; and obtains an end user assistance corresponding to an at least substantially common aspect of the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
Claims27
A method comprising:
- a) detecting a function of a first electronic device in a proximity to a second electronic device;
- b) detecting a function of the second electronic device;
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- c) determining a useful operation producible by a combination of the detected function of the first electronic device and the detected function of the second electronic device, the determining including determining a useable outcome producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device;
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- d) providing an assistance corresponding to the operation.
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A system comprising:
- a) a computing device;
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- b) instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to:
- (i) detect a function of first electronic device in proximity to a second electronic device;
- (ii) detect a function of the second electronic device;
- (iii) determine a useful operation producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device, and a useable outcome producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device;
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- (iv) obtain an assistance corresponding to the operation.
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A device comprising:
- a) a monitoring module operable to detect a first electronic device in a proximity to a second electronic device;
- b) an inventory module operable to acquire information corresponding to a function of the first electronic device and a function of the second electronic device;
- c) an identification module operable to determine a useful operation producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device, and determine a useable outcome producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device;
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- d) a broadcast module operable to provide a human-user assistance corresponding to the useful operation.
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A computer program product encoding a computer program operable to execute a computer process on a computing device, the computer process comprising:
- a) identifying a function of a first electronic device in proximity to a second electronic device;
- b) identifying a function of the second electronic device;
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- c) determining a useful operation producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device, the determining including determining a useable outcome producible by a combination of the function of the first electronic device and the function of the second electronic device;
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- d) providing an assistance corresponding to the operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.