Methods and systems for configuring a mobile device based on an orientation-based usage context

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9544419-B2
Application number	US-201414582436-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2014
Priority date	Dec 24, 2014
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for automatically configuring a mobile device. A mobile device can include a touch sensitive display, a processor, and a plurality of sensors to collect sensor data associated with the mobile device. The mobile device may establish an orientation of the mobile device relative to a user of the mobile device based on the sensor data. The mobile device may then determine a usage context for the mobile device based at least on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user. Furthermore, the mobile device may configure one or more components of the mobile device based on the determined usage context.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for automatically configuring a mobile device, comprising:
a plurality of sensors to collect sensor data associated with the mobile device;
a touch sensitive display;
a second display disposed on the mobile device opposite the touch sensitive display, wherein the touch sensitive display is a primary display; and
a processor coupled with the plurality of sensors, the touch sensitive display, and the second display to
establish an orientation of the mobile device relative to a user of the mobile device based on the sensor data,
determine a usage context for the mobile device based at least on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user,
configure one or more components of the mobile device based on the determined usage context, and
apply different configurations to the primary display and the second display based on the established usage context, wherein the determined usage context for the mobile device comprises an intended usage of the second display, and wherein the processor is configured to disable touch sensing on the primary display.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orientation of the mobile device relative to the user is based on at least sensor data indicative of a physical orientation of the device and sensor data indicative of user proximity to the touch sensitive display.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine one or more applications being executed by the processor on the mobile device, and
determine the usage context for the mobile device based on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user and the one or more applications being executed.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to turn off the primary display.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second display is a touch sensitive display.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second display is a display type different from the touch sensitive display.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the usage context is a likely intended usage of the mobile device by the user inferred from the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sensors comprise two or more of an accelerometer, a proximity sensor, a gyroscopic sensor, and a magnetometer.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor to configure the one or more components of the mobile device based on the determined usage context further comprises the processor to place at least one of the one or more components of the mobile device into a reduced power state.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor to configure one or more components of the mobile device based on the determined usage context further comprises the processor to apply a thermal management setting to at least one of the one or more components of the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device is a tablet computer.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device is a smartphone.

13. A system for automatically configuring a mobile device, comprising:
a plurality of sensors to collect sensor data associated with the mobile device;
a touch sensitive display;
a second display disposed on the mobile device opposite the touch sensitive display, wherein the touch sensitive display is a primary display; and
a processor coupled with the plurality of sensors, the touch sensitive display, and the second display to
establish an orientation of the mobile device relative to a user of the mobile device based on the sensor data,
determine a usage context for the mobile device based at least on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user,
configure one or more components of the mobile device based on the determined usage context, and
apply different configurations to the primary display and the second display based on the established usage context, wherein the determined usage context for the mobile device comprises an intended usage of the second display based at least in part on an application running on the mobile device, and wherein the processor is configured to
display a first data on the second display when the determined usage context indicates the user is viewing the touch sensitive display, and
display a second data on the second display when the determined usage context indicates the user is viewing the second display.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the first data comprises one or more of social networking data and user selected personalization data, and the second data comprise data generated by the application.

15. A method for automatically configuring a mobile device having a primary touch sensitive display and a second display disposed on the mobile device opposite the primary touch sensitive display, comprising:
collecting sensor data associated with the mobile device from a plurality of sensors;
establishing an orientation of the mobile device relative to a user of the mobile device based on the sensor data;
determining a usage context for the mobile device based at least on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user;
configuring one or more components of the mobile device based on the determined usage context; and
applying different configurations to the primary touch sensitive display and the second display based on the established usage context, wherein the determined usage context for the mobile device comprises an intended usage of the second display, and wherein a configuration applied to the primary touch sensitive display comprises disabling touch sensing on the primary touch sensitive display.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the orientation of the mobile device relative to the user is based on at least sensor data indicative of a physical orientation of the device and sensor data indicative of user proximity to a touch sensitive display of the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
determining one or more applications being executed by the processor on the mobile device, and
determining the usage context for the mobile device based on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user and the one or more applications being executed.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the mobile device comprises a primary touch sensitive display and a second display disposed on the mobile device opposite the primary touch sensitive display, the method further comprising:
applying different configurations to the primary touch sensitive display and the second display based on the established usage context.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein configuring the one or more components of the mobile device further comprises placing at least one of the one or more components of the mobile device into a reduced power state.

20. A method for automatically configuring a mobile device having a primary touch sensitive display and a second display disposed on the mobile device opposite the primary touch sensitive display, comprising:
collecting sensor data associated with the mobile device from a plurality of sensors;
establishing an orientation of the mobile device relative to a user of the mobile device based on the sensor data;
determining a usage context for the mobile device based at least on the established orientation of the mobile device relative to the user;
configuring one or more components of the mobile device based on the determi

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Kozaczuk Anthony
• Kumar Arvind

Classifications

• H04W52/0209

  in terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W4/005

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72569 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F3/041

  Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means · CPC title

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title