Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120072381 | Method and Apparatus for Segmenting Context Information - An approach is provided for segmenting context information. A context segmenting platform determines context information associated with a device. The context segmenting platform determines context information associated with a device. The context segmenting platform then determines one or more context patterns based, at least in part, on the context information and determines one or more transition points between the one or more context patterns. Based, at least in part, on the one or more transition points, the context segmenting platform determines to segment the context information. | 03-22-2012 |
20120290599 | Methods and Apparatuses for User Interest Modeling - Methods and apparatuses are provided for user interest modeling. A method may include accessing logged interactive user history data for a user data for a user. The method may additionally include determining at least one user interest topic for the user by utilizing a topic model acting upon at least a portion of the logged interactive user history data and one or more seed documents generated from a topic feature source is feature source. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296909 | Method and Apparatus for Characterizing User Behavior Patterns from User Interaction History - An approach is provided for characterizing user behavior patterns. The behavior pattern platform receives a plurality of context records from a device. Next, the behavior pattern platform places one or more contexts from the context records. Then, the behavior pattern platform places the contexts into one or more context groups. Then, the behavior pattern platform receives interaction data from the device, associates the context groups with the interaction data, and determines a behavior pattern based, at least in part, on the association of the context groups and the interaction data. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296941 | Method and Apparatus for Modelling Personalized Contexts - Various methods for modeling personalized contexts are provided. One example method includes accessing a context data set comprised of a plurality of context records. The context records may include a number of contextual feature-value pairs. The example method may also include generating at least one grouping of contextual feature-value pairs based on a co-occurrence of the contextual feature-value pairs in context records, and defining at least one user context based on the at least one grouping of contextual feature-value pairs. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303452 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Context Attributes and Informational Links for Media Data - Various embodiments include a method including receiving media data on an apparatus, and receiving one or more context attributes related to the apparatus or accessed by the apparatus. The method further includes determining whether the one or more context attributes relate to the media data, and causing, at least in part, display of the media data with the one or more context attributes that are determined to relate to the media data. Also, a method is provided that includes receiving media data on an apparatus, parsing the media data into one or more structured elements, determining one or more informational links that relate to the one or more structured elements of the media data, and causing, at least in part, display of the media data with the one or more informational links that are determined to relate to the one or more structured elements. | 11-29-2012 |
20120331137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING USER CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON USER INTERACTION DATA - An approach is provided for estimating user characteristics based on user interaction data. A characteristics determination logic retrieves an interaction data from a device associated with a use. Next, the characteristics determination logic determines a usage vector from the interaction data. Then, the characteristics determination logic correlates the determined usage vector with one or more predefined characteristics. Then, the characteristics determination logic computes a user characteristics profile based, at least in part, on the one or more correlated characteristics. | 12-27-2012 |
20130013308 | Method And Apparatus For Determining a User Age Range - An approach is provided for determining a user age range. An age estimator causes, at least in part, acquisition of voice data. Next, the age estimator calculates a first set of probability values, wherein each of the probability values represents a probability that the voice data is in a respective one of a plurality of predefined age ranges, and the predefined age ranges are segments of a lifespan. Then, the age estimator derives a second set of probability values by applying a correlation matrix to the first set of probability values, wherein the correlation matrix associates the first set of probability values with probabilities of the voice data matching individual ages over the lifespan. Then, the age estimator, for each of the predefined age ranges, calculates a sum of the probabilities in the second set of probability values corresponding to the individual ages within the respective predefined age ranges. Further, the age estimator determines the predefined age range to associate with the voice data based, at least in part, on the calculated sums of the probabilities. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013644 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEEDED USER INTEREST MODELING - Methods and apparatuses are provided for user interest modeling. A method may include receiving an input from a user for specifying one or more topics from among a predetermined hierarchy of topics and subtopics. The method may additionally include retrieving one or more documents associated with the user and extracting language tokens from the documents based, at least in part, on the specified topics. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 01-10-2013 |
20130103348 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING INVOCATION OF A SENSOR - Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling invocation of a sensor. A method may include accessing a context probability model generated based at least in part on historical context data. The method may further include using the context probability model to determine a probability that a context indicated by an output of a sensor will differ from a context indicated by a previous output of the sensor. The determination may be made based at least in part on observed context information. The method may additionally include controlling invocation of the sensor based at least in part on the determined probability. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 04-25-2013 |
20130132566 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING USER CONTEXT - An approach is provided for training a device to associate user, object or device context information with a user defined context. The context information platform receives recorded context information from a device. The associated recorded context information is then associated with the context to enable training of a context model associated with the context. | 05-23-2013 |
20130145024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFER OF RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION - An approach is provided for initiating a device action in response to determining context information associated with a device, a user of the device, or a combination thereof. Activity information on at least one of the device and one or more other devices is monitored by a context processing platform. The context processing platform defines a context based on the activity information. An action is then executed by the device or the one or more other devices based on the determined context. | 06-06-2013 |
20130198397 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Multiple Forms of Communications in One Session - An approach is provided for performing multiple and hybrid forms of communication in the same communication session. A communication manager receives a to establish a communication session using a first form of communication, wherein the communication session supports multiple and simultaneous forms of communication. Next, the communication manager selects a second form of communication to conduct the communication session. Then, the communication manager transcodes the second form of communication to the first form of communication. The different forms can be converted to facilitate and enrich the communication capability, according to an embodiment of the invention. | 08-01-2013 |
20130218974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLABORATIVE CONTEXT RECOGNITION - Techniques for collaborative context recognition include determining a plurality of groups of user types. Each different group is associated with a corresponding different range of values for an attribute of a user. First data is received, which indicates context data for a device and a value of the attribute for a user of the device. A particular group of user types to which the user belongs is determined based on the value of the attribute for the user. A context label based on the context data and the particular group is determined to be sent. Some techniques include determining a value of an attribute and context data based on context measurements. First data that indicates the context data and the value of the attribute is determined to be sent. A context label based on the context data and the value of the attribute is received. | 08-22-2013 |
20130254900 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE SHARED PERSONAL MAP LAYER - Techniques to provide a secure, shared personal map layer include determining a geographic location. The geographic location is associated with operation of a device. The techniques also include determining indication that describes a relationship between the geographic location and a first user of the device. The techniques also include determining a privacy level for the indication. Then, the first user of the device is associated with the indication and the geographic location and the privacy level. In some embodiments, the techniques also include determining a personal description vocabulary word based, at least in part, on the geographic location and a context for the device. Then it is determined to present on the device a prompt that includes the personal description vocabulary word. | 09-26-2013 |
20130268485 | Methods, Apparatus and Computer Program Products for Providing Automatic and Incremental Mobile Application Recognition - An apparatus for automatically recognizing the semantics of one or more mobile applications may include a processor and a memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving an indication of a selection of at least one mobile application. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to enable provision of a request, to a device, requesting the device to search indicia associated with the selected mobile application in an instance in which a determination indicates that the selected mobile application is not identified in an application mapping list. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to assign a semantic tag to the selected mobile application based in part on data associated with a description generated based in part by extracting content from one or more results of the search. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided, | 10-10-2013 |
20130273976 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying a Conversation in Multiple Strings - Techniques for identifying conversations in multiple short strings include determining from a first plurality of strings associated with a first contact of a user, based on time separations between successive strings, a first conversation portion and a different second conversation portion. The first conversation portion (snippet) comprises a plurality of strings of the first plurality; and the second snippet comprises a different pluralty of strings of the first plurality. A first semantic content for the first snippet and a second semantic content for the second snippet are determined. It is determined whether to merge the first snippet and the second snippet into a first conversation that includes the first snippet based, at least in part, on a similarity of the first semantic content to the second semantic content. | 10-17-2013 |
20130317894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TEMPLATE-BASED DISCOUNT VALUATION AND RANKING - An approach is provided for template-based discount valuation and ranking. A discount management platform processes or facilitates a processing of a vocabulary for representing one or more parameters of discount information associated with one or more discount types. The discount management platform then processes or facilitates a processing of the one or more discount types to generate one or more templates based, at least in part, on the vocabulary. The one or more templates include, at least in part, one or more labels, one or more input fields, or a combination thereof for calculating and/or facilitating a calculation of one or more discount values associated with the discount information. | 11-28-2013 |
20140046965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE DIVERSIFICATION OF RECOMMENDATION RESULTS - An approach is provided for diversifying recommendation results. A diversification manager determines one or more recommendation scores associated with one or more items. The one or more recommendation scores are for determining a sort order of the one or more items. The diversification manager then determines similarity information associated with the one or more items, and processes and/or facilitates a processing of the similarity information to cause, at least in part, an adjustment of the one or more recommendation scores, the sort order, or a combination thereof. | 02-13-2014 |
20140074639 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HOLISTIC MODELING OF USER ITEM RATING WITH TAG INFORMATION IN A RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - An approach is provided for a holistic framework to model user item rating with user generated tag information. A tagging manager determines one or more tags associated with one or more items, wherein the one or more tags are generated by one or more users. The tagging manager processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more tags to cause, at least in part, a generation of one or more semantic spaces. The one or more semantic spaces and/or one or more semantic concepts within the one or more semantic spaces represent one or more groupings of the one or more tags. The tagging manager determines one or more probability parameters that the one or more tags, the one or more users, the one or more items, or a combination thereof are associated with respective ones of the one or more semantic concepts in the semantic spaces. The tagging manager then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more probability parameters to cause, at least in part, a calculation of predicted rating information with respect to the one or more tags, the one or more users, the one or more items, or a combination thereof. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089239 | Methods, Apparatuses and Computer Program Products for Providing Topic Model with Wording Preferences - An apparatus for determining one more preferred words of a user may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including implementing a topic model including data associated with one or more word preferences of at least one user. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to implement a training model of the topic model to generate the word preferences based in part on analyzing training data of the training model. The training data including content associated with one or more determined topics. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to determine that the word preferences correspond to one or more preferred words of respective users. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 03-27-2014 |
20140122507 | Method and Apparatus for Content-Aware Role Modeling and Recommendation - An approach is provided for providing recommendations to a user based on user's role derived from the context information and an advanced user profile. A recommendation platform processes context information to determine one or more roles associated with a user. Next, the recommendation platform calculates at least one level of similarity between the one or more roles and one or more other roles associated with one or more other users. Then, the recommendation platform determines recommendation information associated with the one or more other users based, at least in part, on the at least one level of similarity. Next, the recommendation platform processes the recommendation information to generate one or more recommendations for the user. | 05-01-2014 |
20140164172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FEATURE-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING - An approach is provided for feature-based collaborative filtering. A recommendation engine receives a request to generate one or more recommendations with respect to one or more items for one or more users. The recommendation engine processes and/or facilitates a processing of descriptive information associated with the one or more items to generate a mapping of the one or more items to one or more features. In one embodiment, the mapping brings performance improvements particularly when applied to time-dependent and/or keyword-based items. The recommendation engine then determines preference information with respect to the one or more features for the one or more users. Based, at least in part, on the mapping and the preference information, the recommendation engine generates the one or more recommendations. | 06-12-2014 |
20140222622 | Method and Apparatus for Collaborative Filtering for Real-Time Recommendation - An approach is provided for generating one or more recommendations to a user based on interactions the user may have with items or topics of interest. The approach involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of one or more interactions of a user with one or more content items. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, an accumulation of the one or more processed interactions of the user. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a determination of one or more user preferences based, at least in part, on the accumulated one or more processed interactions. The approach additionally involves causing, at least in part, a generation of a rating score of the user for the topic based, at least in part, on the one or more user preferences. | 08-07-2014 |
20140289850 | AUTOMATIC APPROACH FOR THE PERSONALIZED PRIVACY RECOMMENDATION RELATED TO THE LOCATION - A method for personalized location privacy recommendation comprises: obtaining information of one or more locations for a user; collecting features of the one or more locations; and recommending respective privacy levels of the one or more locations automatically based at least in part on the information and the features. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297248 | Method and Apparatus for Context Sensing Inference - The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method, apparatus and system to perform operations including receiving context data from an electronic device, causing, at least in part based on the received context data, an identification of at least one context model compatible with the electronic device, and causing, at least in part, provision of the electronic device with the at least one compatible context model. In addition, the exemplary embodiments of the invention further provide at least a method, apparatus and system to perform operations including causing, at least in part, a provision of context data associated with an electronic device to a context inference service, in response, receiving a context model from the context inference service, and causing adaptation of the received context model as a current context model of the electronic device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140298358 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Optimization Framework for task-Oriented Event Execution - An approach is provided for providing an optimization framework for task-oriented event execution. A planner platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of user indication information to determine an event associated with a device, a user of the device, or a combination thereof. The planner platform further causes, at least in part, a creation of a planner object specifying, at least in part, one or more processes related to the event, one or more triggers for the one or more processes, or a combination thereof. The planner platform also causes, at least in part, an execution of the one or more processes at the device, one or more other devices, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on a monitoring of contextual information against the one or more triggers. | 10-02-2014 |
20140308980 | CONTEXT ENABLED SURVEYS FOR TARGETED SURVEYS - Example approach is provided for surveys. An example method may include monitoring a location of a user equipment of a public land mobile network to determine when the monitored location corresponds to a survey trigger corresponding to a survey served by a server; sending to the server a request for content of the survey, when the monitored location corresponds to the survey trigger; and receiving, in response to the request, the content of the survey selected in accordance with a context derived from at least the monitored location. Furthermore, the location may include the user's general situation as a survey trigger condition to enable survey selection. | 10-16-2014 |
20140337945 | CONTEXT-AWARE ADAPTIVE AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A context-aware adaptive authentication method may comprise: determining a context for a user; adjusting automatically an authentication configuration for the user based at least in part on the context, wherein different matching accuracies of an authentication algorithm for the same authentication input data are associated with respective authentication configurations; and performing an authentication of the user with the authentication configuration, wherein for the user under a safe context, the authentication is performed by decreasing a matching accuracy of the authentication algorithm. | 11-13-2014 |
20150017967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A PREDICTED DURATION OF A CONTEXT - An approach is provided for determining a predicted duration of a context. A context duration platform causes, at least in part, a determination, a prediction, or a combination thereof of one or more contexts associated with at least one device. The context duration platform further processes and/or facilitates a processing of context information associated with the at least one device, other context information associated with one or more other devices, or a combination thereof to determine one or more predicted durations of the one or more contexts. | 01-15-2015 |
20150031400 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HUB-BASED INDEXING AND SERVICES - An approach is provided for providing hub-based indexing and services. The hub-based platform causes, at least in part, an indexing of location-based content according to one or more location hubs of one or more transportation lines, Next, the hub-based platform determines a current proximity, a predicted proximity, or a combination thereof of one or more devices to the one or more location hubs, wherein the one or more devices are (a) traveling on the one or more transportation lines, (b) predicted to travel on the one or more transportation lines, or (c) a combination thereof. Then, the hub-based platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of at least a portion of the location-based content based, at least in part, on the current proximity, the predicted proximity, or a combination thereof. | 01-29-2015 |
20150066650 | Method and Apparatus for Advertisements in Mobile Content Distribution Systems - An approach is provided for optimally matching advertisements to content items for targeted consumers using the content distribution characteristics. A distribution processor determines one or more distribution characteristics of one or more first content items that are distributed among one or more devices. The distribution processor then processes and/or facilitates processing of the one or more distribution characteristics to cause, at least in part, a selection of one or more second content items. In one scenario, the one or more second content items may include advertisements. From there, the distribution processor processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more first content items to cause, at least in part, an embedding of the one or more second content items in the one or more first content items. | 03-05-2015 |