Patent Document ID: 8676937
Application ID: 13367642

Base Claim:
1. A machine-implemented method for enhancing a network using experience of a respective first user, the method comprising: causing a plurality of machine-performed processes to occur with respect to the first user and with respect to a local data processing device which is currently accessible by the first user, where the local data processing device is operatively coupled to or includes as a part thereof of a network content displaying and/or otherwise presenting mechanism for displaying and/or otherwise locally presenting to the first user, content obtained from one or more electromagnetic communication based networks; wherein the local data processing device is operatively coupled to and/or has executing within it, a corresponding one or more network browsing modules where at least one of the network browsing modules is configured to cause a presenting of browser generated content to the first user by way of the content presenting mechanism; wherein the at least one network browsing module is configured to relay upload data to an associated network server thereof that is operatively coupled to a corresponding one of the networks and is disposed functionally upstream of the local data processing device in terms of a data uploading scheme that provides transmission of uploading data, the uploading transmission extending from the at least one network browsing module and upstream by way of the corresponding network to an associated network server module operative in the associated network server; wherein the relayed upload data includes at least one of current focus indicator (CFi) data and data providing logical linkings as between plural ones of uploaded CFi data or as between uploaded CFi data and other uploaded data and where the relayed or logically-linked-to and uploaded CFi data indicates one or more attributes of automatically repeatedly monitored and recent attention giving activities of the first user, the recent attention giving activities being ones whereby the first user recently gave focused attention to content presented by the local content presenting mechanism, and the recent attention giving activities including at least one of: a making of one or more facial expressions by the first user; a making of body language gestures other than facial expressions by the first user; a directing of the first user's head in a particular direction; a training or focusing or trajectory patterns of the first user's eyes on or along with particular content presented by a content displaying device; a change from steady state in eye based activities of the first user such as eyelid blink rate, eye dart rate, and pupil dilation pattern; a wobbling, tilting, nodding, or shaking of the first user's head in a particular fashion; an inputting of touch-type or other device actuation inputs by the first user; an inputting of device grip and/or device tilt and/or device jiggle manipulation by the first user; a simultaneous combination of one or more body language gestures and input device actuations by the first user; a change into an active listening mode from a passive or non-listening mode; a change into an active odor detecting mode; a change into a tensed muscles mode; and a change of emotional or biometric state in apparent response to newly recognized content; an activating or deactivating or moving of or shifting between use of different ones of identifiable and at hand resources by the first user such as a turning on of previously turned-off and at hand electrical devices and such as a moving by the first user of identifiable and at hand non-electrical objects; an accepting of an invitation provided by the machine system or a pursuing of additional content suggested by the machine system and; a deviation of significant magnitude from predetermined patterns of habits and routines of the first user; wherein the automatically repeatedly monitored attention giving activities of the first user are transparently monitored by at least one of the machine-performed processes without need for diverting focusing of attention by the first user for aiding the at least one machine-performed process, where such diverted focusing of attention, if it hypothetically had occurred, would have been directed to aiding the determinations of what the recent attention giving activities of the first user are or recently were; wherein the associated network server normally responds to non-CFi data uploaded thereto from the at least one network browsing module by responsively downloading corresponding and presentable content to the at least one network browsing module for presentation by way of the content presenting mechanism; the plurality of caused and machine-performed processes of said machine-implemented method including, in addition to said at least one machine-performed process for automatically repeatedly monitoring attention giving activities of the first user: causing the associated upstream network server to receive the relayed and uploaded data including the current focus indicator (CFi) data and/or the data providing logical linkings to CFi data that has been relayed thereto by the at least one network browsing module; and causing the associated upstream network server to relay to a Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system further-upstream-relayed CFi data corresponding at least to the current focus indicator (CFi) data and/or the data providing logical linkings forwarded to the STAN system from the associated upstream network server; wherein the STAN system is configured to automatically determine one or more likely cognitive states of the first user based on the further-upstream-relayed current focus indicator (CFi) data relayed to the STAN system, the automatic determining of likely cognitive states being carried out by the STAN system without need for diverting centering of attention by the user directed to aiding the automatic determining by the STAN system of the likely cognitive states of the first user.

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Claim 3:
3. The experience enhancing method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of caused processes further include: causing, before the relaying thereof by the associated network server to the STAN system, an attachment of respective time of focus and/or screen location information to the current focus indicator data which is relayed by the at least one browsing module upstream to the network server, where the attached time of focus and/or screen location information is indicative of a respective time of focus-upon and/or of a respective screen location of respective content indicated to be focused-upon by the respective current focus indicator data; and causing the STAN system to use the attached time of focus and/or screen location information to form a context-based hybrid clustering of received current focus indicators and chronological and/or spatial contexts associated therewith.