Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Patrick M Goddi

Philippe Debaty

Nelson Liang An Chang

I-Jong Lin

Joshua Rogers Tyler

William Alex Vorbau

Andrew Dahley

Margaret Fleck

A method and system for interfacing a digital device with an interactive display surface (IDS) is presented. The IDS detects the digital device when it is brought into proximity, and attempts to identify the device. The IDS communicates with the device, and displays interactive representations of information stored on the device.

Method and system for interfacing a digital device with an interactive display surface

Methods and systems for communicating a story mail between communications devices extends voice mail are provided. In one embodiment, user specified correlation information that describes a correlation for presenting visual media with continuous audio data is used to generate synchronization information. A story mail transmitting device transmits a story mail that is associated with synchronization information. A story mail receiving device uses the synchronization information to present the continuous audio data and the visual media associated with the story mail. Either the story mail transmitting device or the story mail receiving device is a handheld communications device.

System for communicating a story mail between communications devices that extends voice mail

Using a web presence manager infrastructure (see Appendix), actions, appliance events, and presences are continuously and automatically captured and stored as historical metadata for each physical context managed. The metadata is mapped interactively for all users. Personal content for each user, such as digital file usage, is indexed in association with each physical context. Users personal content from autobiographical web presence manager past events is displayed upon each registration of the user's presence in a current physical context with content recall directly related to the current physical context. Personal content mapping to available services is also provided.

File processing using mapping between web presences

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Patrick M Goddi