METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AMBIENT COMPUTING

Abstract: a method of operating a personal intelligent agent in an ambient computing environment, comprising receiving input; analyzing input to derive a user personal preference; associating the personal preference with a first context indicator; determining whether the personal preference is exposable; responsive to determining that the personal preference is exposable, storing the preference with the associated context indicator; detecting when the agent enters a detectable context and responsively creating a second context indicator; determining if there is a match between the second and the first context indicator; retrieving the exposable personal preference associated with the context indicator; creating an anonymous preference indicator comprising the exposable personal preference with the matched context; emitting the preference indicator over the ambient computing environment; and monitoring the ambient computing environment to detect any broadcast message indicating ability to satisfy the preference shown in the preference indicator.

Inventor(s): Remy Pottier, Nicholas John Cook, Vasileios Laganakos, Diya Soubra

CPC Classification: G06F21/6254 ({by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification})

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