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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |