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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Mei Chuah, San Leandro, CA (US);
Mei Chuah, San Leandro, CA (US);
Accenture Global Services Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for socialization of electronic devices is provided. Communications from a first person to a second person or to a group of persons may be enhanced, such as modified or supplemented, based on a user profile of the first person, the second person, and/or the group of persons. The user profile may comprise any one or any combination of the following: presence, expression, shared context, surrounding context, and device context. Moreover, enhancing the communication may comprise modifying or supplementing text, audio, video, image, scent, tactile and taste output. In addition, a communication is sent based on changes in a user profile. Changes in the user profile may comprise manual changes or automatic changes. Further, the content of the communication sent may depend on the aspect changed in the user profile.