SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLICATIONS ON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- transmitting a data request from a mobile communications device to at least one enhanced mobile communications device;
receiving data at the mobile communications device from the at least one enhanced mobile communications device responsive to the data request; and
processing the data in at least one application of the mobile communications device.
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Abstract
The functionality of smartphone applications may be extended to a basic phone, i.e., a phone lacking a particular smartphone capability, by providing a data synthesizer in the basic phone that synthesizers required data points. The data synthesizer may communicate with nearby smartphones to collect relevant data points such as location or motion data. Data points for the basic phone may be calculated from the collected data points. When an application on the basic phone requests data, a data provider proxy may retrieve a synthesized data point from the data synthesizer. In one example, a basic phone without a GPS or similar location module may execute a mapping application by averaging location data from nearby smartphones.
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36 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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transmitting a data request from a mobile communications device to at least one enhanced mobile communications device; receiving data at the mobile communications device from the at least one enhanced mobile communications device responsive to the data request; and processing the data in at least one application of the mobile communications device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A mobile communications device, comprising:
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at least one application; and at least one data synthesizer configured to; request data from at least one enhanced mobile communications device; receive data from the at least one enhanced mobile communications device; generate at least one datapoint from the received data; and provide the at least one datapoint to the at least one application. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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21. A device, comprising:
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means for transmitting a data request from a mobile communications device to at least one enhanced mobile communications device; means for receiving data at the mobile communications device from the at least one enhanced mobile communications device responsive to the data request; and means for processing the data in at least one application of the mobile communications device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. An article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions that configure a processing system to:
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transmit a data request from a mobile communications device to at least one enhanced mobile communications device; receive data at the mobile communications device from the at least one enhanced mobile communications device responsive to the data request; and process the data in at least one application of the mobile communications device. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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