INFERRING INSIGHTS FROM ENHANCED USER INPUT

摘要

A method and associated systems for inferring insights from enhanced user input. A computerized messaging system identifies a user operating a mobile, location-enabled, “scribble” device and associates the user or the device with a domain of interest or with other metadata that characterizes the user. When the user enters an ad hoc “scribble” input via the device, the system automatically tags the input with the user's location, with sensory data received from one or more sensor devices, and with ancillary data received from extrinsic data repositories. The system may then consider this ancillary and sensory data in order to identify or infer rules or insights associated with the user and the scribble. These rules may then be used to identify targeted, user-specific steps to perform in response to receiving the scribble, where these user-specific steps accommodate a user preference without exposing confidential user information to a public data repository.

主权项

1. A method for inferring insights from enhanced user input comprising:
a computerized communications system accessing information that characterizes a user; the system accepting a scribble data entered by the user, wherein the scribble data comprises data entered by the user on a scribble device, and wherein the scribble device is a mobile device capable of communicating with the system; the system associating the user with a location; the system receiving sensory metadata associated with the scribble data from a set of physical sensor devices; the system retrieving ancillary data in response to the accepting the scribble data; the system enhancing the scribble data with the ancillary data and the sensory metadata; and the system identifying, as a function of the enhanced scribble data, an insight related to the user.