Google Inc.

Motorola Corporation

General Instrument Corporation

Daniel Stewart

Michael D Pearce

Jehan Wickramasuriya

Nitya Narasimhan

Joseph F Wodka

Mack Mansouri

Jay R Almaula

Steven K Rossi

Craig A Janssen

Pekin E Eren

Steven Rossi

A method and apparatus is disclosed whereby the context of user activity can be used to tailor the ambient information system. The method and apparatus use both short-term context such as recent activity and long-term context such as historical patterns to highlight specific content on channels or widgets that are likely to be of most immediate interest to the user. This contextual information provided by the framework can also be used to make intelligent decisions about how to tailor the user experience after a user has interacted with the item in question. Additionally, context information accumulated on one device such as a mobile phone can be broadcasted to other devices to influence the ambient information display application on a second device such as a desktop based on enabling remote access to the local context repository.

Method and apparatus for context-aware delivery of informational content on ambient displays

A privately addressed home network bridge is provided for each of two privately addressed home networks. These bridges couple to corresponding gateways for each of the networks. A network tunnel connection is established between the two bridges via the gateways and an intervening publicly addressed network. At least one, and preferably both, of the home network bridges then serve as a proxy/router to facilitate an exchange of messages as between network devices of the two privately addressed home networks. Pursuant to a preferred approach the home network bridges use a mapping technique to correlate private addresses as used in the two privately addressed networks.

Home network bridge-based communications method and apparatus

A format programmable hardware packetizer ( ) receives real-time raw input data ( ) from a multimedia data source ( ) via an analog to digital converter ( ) and a data encoder ( ) gated by encoder interrupts ( ). The real-time raw input data is buffered in an internal byte collector of the packetizer ( ). A main CPU interrupt ( ) is issued to the main processor ( ) when a packet boundary code is received. The packetizer ( ) formats the data according to a desired format selected on line ( ) for dump to the main memory ( ) while providing a managed, much lower level of interrupts to the main processor ( ) on the CPU interrupt line ( ). A plurality of hardware packetizers ( ) can be deployed according to alternative constructions for efficient real time packetizing in various selected formats.

Format programmable hardware packetizer

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Hoffman Estates, IL, United States of America

Daniel Stewart