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Automatic resource balancing for multi-device location-based applications

  • US 9,124,591 B2
  • Filed: 05/02/2014
  • Issued: 09/01/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method to broker computing device resources between computing devices, comprising:

  • identifying a location-based application executing on an operating system of a first computing device, wherein executing of the location-based application is associated with a first user profile;

    identifying a resource type to facilitate the executing of the location-based application, the resource type being navigation related;

    maintaining a list of computing devices each having at least an available application service of the identified resource type by identifying the computing devices through a communication protocol available to the first computing device and identifying the computing devices that are associated with and at least partially controllable by the first user profile via an ownership credential of the first user profile, the list including the first computing device;

    comparing a comparable limitation of each available application service instance from the list against each other in the list to select a target computing device from the computing devices to offer up a target application service instance of the resource type to the location-based application; and

    commanding the target computing device to utilize the target application service instance on behalf of the location-based application that is executing on the operating system of the first computing device.

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