US 11,748,507 B2
Concepts of providing information about a device
Tom Cool, Stuttgart (DE); Daavid Hentunen, Stuttgart (DE); Olivier Demarto, Stuttgart (DE); and Fabien Cardinaux, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/364,179.
Claims priority of application No. 18165060 (EP), filed on Mar. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0303612 A1, Oct. 3, 2019
Int. Cl. G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 3/015 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/453 (2018.02); G06F 11/3438 (2013.01); G06F 11/3452 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 2203/011 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of providing information about a shared mobile device, comprising:
obtaining, by the mobile device, user-specific information of a first user related to user experience of the first user's use of the mobile device during at least one operation mode of the mobile device;
storing the user-specific information in a non-volatile memory of the mobile device; and
upon request of a second user who is a prospective user considering whether to temporarily use the mobile device for a limited period of time, outputting, on the mobile device, device-specific information indicative of the user experience of the first user's use of the mobile device based on the stored user-specific information from the non-volatile memory of the mobile device,
wherein the user-specific information is based on sensor data of the mobile device captured during a predetermined usage situation of the first user using the mobile device, from among a plurality of predetermined usage situations, the sensor data being provided by at least one sensor of the mobile device during the predetermined usage situation,
wherein said outputting of the device-specific information upon the request from the second user is performed as part of a checkpoint process before letting the mobile device pass to the second user for use,
wherein the method further comprises allowing the mobile device to be used by the second user only upon passing the checkpoint process,
wherein the mobile device is a transporter to transport the second user,
wherein the device-specific information is based on aggregated user-specific information from a plurality of users of the shared mobile device, including the first user but excluding the second user, stored in the non-volatile memory of the mobile device, and
wherein the user-specific information includes an overall user experience of the first user's use of the mobile device from the user-specific information for all of the plurality of predetermined usage situations.