Context-aware Timely Information Delivery in Mobile Environments

In mobile environments transmitting information relevant to an event along with notification of the event has been proven to be an effective means of providing revenue enhancing services. For example, a relevant advertisement can be displayed just before event notification, for instance, a product promotion by Beckham can be shown just before the notification of a goal scored by him. Challenges in achieving real time search and delivery of information relevant to events as they occur include: (a) Predicting the next event so that the appropriate information can be kept ready; (b) Finding information relevant to the context and content of the event; (c) Searching and bringing the potentially needed information closer to the user location; and (d) Disseminating and displaying relevant information just before the actual event is notified to the user. In this paper we propose a real time information delivery system based on an event’s context and content. The key features of our system ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CJ
• Authors: Amit Thawani, Srividya Gopalan, V. Sridhar, Krithi Ramamritham
• Keywords: CJ 2007, CJ 2008, Information, Notification, Revenue Enhancing Services