US 9,432,472 B2Granted

Accelerated training of personal daemons

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorDouglas C. Burger

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Abstract

Systems and methods of a personal daemon, executing as a background process on a mobile computing device, for providing personal assistant to an associated user is presented. While the personal daemon maintains personal information corresponding to the associated user, the personal daemon is configured to not share the personal information of the associated user with any other entity other than the associated user except under conditions of heuristics and behaviors established by the associated user. The personal daemon monitors and analyzes the actions of the associated user to determine additional personal information of the associated user. Additionally, upon receiving one or more notices of events from a plurality of sensors associated with the mobile computing device, the personal daemon executes a personal assistance action on behalf of the associated user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A mobile computing device configured to provide personal assistance to an associated user, the mobile computing device comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the processor executes instructions to provide personal assistant to the associated user in conjunction with additional executable components, the additional executable components comprising:

a personal daemon providing personal assistance to an associated user of the mobile computing device according to personal information of the associated user and without user input, wherein the personal information represents one or more aspects of the user, and wherein the personal daemon is configured to:
operate in the background of the mobile computing device;
maintain a data store of personal information regarding the associated user;
monitor actions of the associated user made in conjunction with the mobile computing device;
execute a personal assistance action on behalf of the associated user according to personal information of the associated user in response to a received notice of an event and according to a set of heuristics maintained by the personal daemon;
wherein the personal daemon is further configured to not share the personal information of the associated user with any other entity other than the associated user except under conditions of heuristics established by the associated user;
and
wherein the set of heuristics for executing a personal assistance action on behalf of the associated user includes a predetermined set of heuristics obtained from a personal daemon model selected by the associated user.

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Facts

Application: 14/274,650Filed 9 May 2014 · continuation in part
Priority: 24 Feb 2014
Published: US 2015/0244821 A127 Aug 2015
Granted: 30 Aug 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04L 67/535
Network services: tracking the activity of the user
G06F 21/123
Restricting unauthorised execution of programs: by using dedicated hardware, e.g. dongles, smart cards, cryptographic processors, global…
G06F 21/6245
To a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database: protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Family

Application14/187,567Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 Feb 2014
US 2015/0244821 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Aug 2015
US 2015/0245216 A1Published application
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US 9,432,472 B2This patent

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