Patent ID: 7543233
Filing Date: 2009-06-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: capturing a heterogeneous plurality of context data elements comprising three or more emails, messages, voicemails, image files or video files, or a combination thereof, generated or received by an electronic device, wherein respective context data elements have a time at which said context data element was generated or received; receiving an indication of a desired temporal scope of a presentation to be generated based at least in part on said plurality of context data elements, said temporal scope defining a time period to be represented by said presentation; identifying a subset of said plurality of context data elements, said subset comprising two or more context data elements generated or received at a time within said time period defined by said desired temporal scope, said subset comprising less than said plurality of context data elements; determining a relative importance of respective context data elements from among said subset of said plurality of context data elements based upon one or more of a number of instances that respective context data elements have been utilized, a level of significance associated with respective context data elements, and a period of time associated with respective context data elements; selecting a combination of two or more context data elements from said subset of said plurality of context data elements, wherein at least a portion of said combination is selected based on said relative importance of said respective context data elements; selecting a mood associated with a user from a plurality of predefined moods based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of said plurality of context data elements captured; selecting one or more media elements from a plurality of media elements each of said plurality of media elements belonging to one or more of a plurality of categories of media elements each category corresponding to a predefined mood, wherein the media elements comprise audio elements, graphical elements, or a combination thereof, wherein the audio elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of volume, tone, tempo, and musical genre, and the graphical elements are categorized based at least in part on one or more of color, tone, and brightness, and wherein at least one of said one or more media elements is selected from the category of media elements corresponding to said mood associated with said user; and generating said presentation, wherein said presentation comprises said combination of two or more context data elements, and wherein generating said presentation comprises compiling said combination of two or more context data elements with said one or more media elements.