Patent Document ID: 9329758
Application ID: 14071148

Base Claim:
1. A system for incorporating human emotions in a computing environment comprising: one or more processors, and a memory storing computer readable program code; a plurality of discrete sensory channels each for handling sensory input detected via one or more sensors, each of the one or more sensors comprising hardware, wherein different senses are associated with different ones of the discrete sensory channels, wherein each of the discrete sensory channels is a sensory channel corresponding to a specific emotion dimension, wherein sensory input handled within the sensory channels comprises physiological input providing a physiological measurement from a body of the user; a plurality of in-channel processors, each being one of the one or more processors, that process sensory input specific to the channel and that generate emotion dimension values from the sensory input, wherein each emotion dimension value has been transformed to be independent of idiosyncrasies of a sensory capture device from which the sensory input was originally obtained; and a sensory aggregator, implemented in the computer readable program code stored in the memory and executable by at least one of the one or more processors, for aggregating emotion dimension values generated in a per-channel basis by the in-channel processors to generate at least one emotion datum value, which is a value for an emotional characteristic of a user from whom the sensory input was gathered, and is an application independent value that is able to be utilized by a plurality of independent applications to discern emotions of said user and to cause application specific code of the independent applications to be reactive to changes in sensory aggregator generated emotion datum values.

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Claim 7:
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein said in-channel processors and said sensory aggregator are components of a service oriented architecture (SOA), where software services are provided for processing said sensory input and for aggregating said emotion dimension values.