Methods, systems, and media for producing sensory outputs correlated with relevant information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016232131-A1
Application number	US-201514619866-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 11, 2015
Priority date	Feb 11, 2015
Publication date	Aug 11, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods, systems, and media for producing sensory outputs correlated with relevant information are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: determining activity information associated with a user of a user device; determining an item of information related to the activity information; identifying a device associated with the user device with which to present an indication of the item of information; identifying a sensory modality and a sensory output corresponding to the sensory modality, wherein the sensory output is correlated to the item of information; transmitting instructions to the device that cause the device to produce the sensory output; storing information related to the user's actions after the sensory output was produced in association with the sensory output and the item of information; and determining whether to continue causing the sensory output to be produced based on the stored information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for producing sensory outputs correlated with relevant information, the method comprising:
determining activity information associated with a user of a user device; determining an item of information related to the activity information; identifying a device associated with the user device with which to present an indication of the item of information; identifying a sensory modality and a sensory output corresponding to the sensory modality, wherein the sensory output is correlated to the item of information; transmitting instructions to the device that cause the device to produce the sensory output; storing information related to the user's actions after the sensory output was produced in association with the sensory output and the item of information; and determining whether to continue causing the sensory output to be produced based on the stored information.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising inhibiting an interface indicating the sensory output and the item of information from being presented on the user device.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining device capabilities associated with the identified device, wherein identifying the sensory modality is based on the device capabilities.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified device is a lighting system, and wherein the sensory output includes a change in lighting to convey the item of information.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified device includes audio output capabilities, and wherein the sensory output includes presentation of a particular sound to convey the item of information.

6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
retrieving stored information related to the user's action after the sensory output was produced in association with the item of information; and determining whether to produce the sensory output in association with the item of information based on the retrieved stored information.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether the user has associated the sensory output with the item of information, wherein the stored information comprises the determination of whether the user has associated the sensory output with the item of information.

8 . A system for producing sensory outputs correlated with relevant information, the system comprising:
a hardware processor that is programmed to:
determine activity information associated with a user of a user device;
determine an item of information related to the activity information;
identify a device associated with the user device with which to present an indication of the item of information;
identify a sensory modality and a sensory output corresponding to the sensory modality, wherein the sensory output is correlated to the item of information;
transmit instructions to the device that cause the device to produce the sensory output;
store information related to the user's actions after the sensory output was produced in association with the sensory output and the item of information; and
determine whether to continue causing the sensory output to be produced based on the stored information.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to inhibit an interface indicating the sensory output and the item of information from being presented on the user device.

10 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to determine device capabilities associated with the identified device, wherein identifying the sensory modality is based on the device capabilities.

11 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the identified device is a lighting system, and wherein the sensory output includes a change in lighting to convey the item of information.

12 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the identified device includes audio output capabilities, and wherein the sensory output includes presentation of a particular sound to convey the item of information.

13 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to:
retrieve stored information related to the user's action after the sensory output was produced in association with the item of information; and determine whether to produce the sensory output in association with the item of information based on the retrieved stored information.

14 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to determine whether the user has associated the sensory output with the item of information, wherein the stored information comprises the determination of whether the user has associated the sensory output with the item of information.

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for producing sensory outputs correlated with relevant information, the method comprising:
determining activity information associated with a user of a user device; determining an item of information related to the activity information; identifying a device associated with the user device with which to present an indication of the item of information; identifying a sensory modality and a sensory output corresponding to the sensory modality, wherein the sensory output is correlated to the item of information; transmitting instructions to the device that cause the device to produce the sensory output; storing information related to the user's actions after the sensory output was produced in association with the sensory output and the item of information; and determining whether to continue causing the sensory output to be produced based on the stored information.

16 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises inhibiting an interface indicating the sensory output and the item of information from being presented on the user device.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises determining device capabilities associated with the identified device, wherein identifying the sensory modality is based on the device capabilities.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the identified device is a lighting system, and wherein the sensory output includes a change in lighting to convey the item of information.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the identified device includes audio output capabilities, and wherein the sensory output includes presentation of a particular sound to convey the item of information.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises:
retrieving stored information related to the user's action after the sensory output was produced in association with the item of information; and determining whether to produce the sensory output in association with the item of information based on the retrieved stored information.

21 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises determining whether the user has associated the sensory output with the item of information, wherein the stored information comprises the determination of whether the user has associated the sensory output with the item of information.

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Liu Eric Hc
• Goran Charles
• Effrat Jonathan James

Classifications

• G06F40/103 Primary

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title

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  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

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  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06F17/211 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic