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System and Method for Application Context Location Based Configuration Suggestions

  • US 20130339498A1
  • Filed: 08/21/2013
  • Published: 12/19/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • maintaining, for a mobile data processing system, location based configuration data including a collection of information from a plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of a particular data processing system, the location based configuration data useful for creating a user configured location based configuration including one or more conditions for being monitored, and one or more actions to be performed upon determining the one or more conditions;

    recognizing a request by a user of the mobile data processing system for suggested location based configuration information;

    determining an application context of the request;

    determining the suggested location based configuration information using the application context and the location based configuration data after recognizing the request, the suggested location based configuration information including the information from the plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of the particular data processing system;

    presenting the suggested location based configuration information to the user of the mobile data processing system upon determining the suggested location based configuration information;

    accepting user input from the user of the mobile data processing system for configuring the user configured location based configuration using the suggested location based configuration information including the information from the plurality of data processing systems determined to have been in the vicinity of the particular data processing system; and

    saving the user configured location based configuration to a memory of the mobile data processing system.

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