Method and device fore reproducing information
AssigneeFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
InventorsAlexander Zink, Olaf Korte, Detlev Von Braumuller, Heinz Gerhauser, Roland Plankenbühler
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Abstract
A system for presenting information regarding an object provided within a plurality of information sources to a user or a presentation means depending on a location of the user or the presentation means includes a means for determining the location, a means for selecting the information to be presented depending on the determined location and on one or several pre-settable selection criteria defining an information source from the plurality of information sources, and a means for outputting the information to be presented.
Claims21
A method for presenting a piece of information regarding an object from a plurality of pieces of information provided within a plurality of information sources, to a user or a presentation means, depending on a location of the user or the presentation means, the method comprising the following steps:
- determining the location;
- selecting a management part from a plurality of management parts, each of which comprises a reference to one of the plurality of information sources, a position indication and one or several pre-settable selection criteria, depending on the determined location and on the one or the several pre-settable selection criteria of the plurality of management parts;
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- outputting the piece of information provided within the one of the plurality of information sources which the reference of the selected management part refers to,
- wherein the one or several pre-settable selection criteria of the plurality of information sources include a category, the method further comprising:
- associating a weighting value with each category of the plurality of management parts, wherein the categories are organised in a tree structure,
- determining a weighting of each category based on a combination of the weighting values of some of the categories within the tree structure, wherein the step of selecting comprises the selection of a management part from the plurality of management parts depending on the weightings of the plurality of management parts, and
- wherein the step of determining the weighting of each category comprises determining the weighting of each category as a mathematical combination of the weighting values of the categories on the way from a root of the tree to the respective category.
A device for presenting a piece of information regarding an object from a plurality of pieces of information provided within a plurality of information sources, to a user or a presentation means depending on a location of the user or the presentation means, the device comprising:
- means for determining the location;
- means for selecting a management part from a plurality of management parts, each of which comprises a reference to one of the plurality of information sources, a position indication and one or several pre-settable selection criteria, depending on the determined location and on the one or several pre-settable selection criteria of the plurality of management parts;
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- means for outputting the piece of information provided within the one of the plurality of information sources which the reference of the selected management part refers to,
- wherein the one or several pre-settable selection criteria of the plurality of information sources include a category, and wherein the device further comprises:
- means for associating a weighting value with each category of the plurality of management parts, wherein the categories are organised in a tree structure,
- means for determining a weighting of each category based on a combination of the weighting values of some of the categories within the tree structure, wherein the means for selecting is adapted to perform the selection of a management part from the plurality of management parts depending on the weightings of the plurality of management parts, and
- wherein the weighting of each category is determined as a mathematical combination of the weighting values of the categories on the way from a root of the tree to the respective category.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.