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Ad-hoc community context awareness for mobile device

  • US 9,813,875 B2
  • Filed: 03/31/2016
  • Issued: 11/07/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for determining context in a first mobile computing device, the system comprising hardware including a processor and a data store containing instructions that, when executed, cause the computing hardware to implement:

  • a context indication manager module to store current context representing a current user activity or environment in which the first mobile computing device is used;

    a decision module to generate a query for transmission to a remote community context service; and

    a communicator module to obtain community context information from the remote community context service, the community context information being based on a remote context determination of a second mobile computing device determined to be similarly situated to the first mobile computing device according to community membership criteria;

    wherein the context indication manager module is to update the indication of the current context based on the community context information.

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