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AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorHasse Sinivaara
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The methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products provide for sensing a magnetic field, emitted by a short-range communication source, to activate short-range communication modules in a mobile terminal. In addition to sensing the magnetic field, the terminal may rely on other parameters, such as operational state of the terminal, contextual information and the like, to determine if the short-range communication module should be activated. As such, the invention reduces the overall power consumption of the terminal by limiting the active state of the short-range communication module. By conserving power the mobile terminal is capable of operating for longer periods of time without requiring charging or replacement of the power supply.
A mobile terminal device, the device comprising:
A method for activating a short-range communication module associated with a mobile terminal device, the method comprising the steps of:
A system for short-range communication, the system comprising:
A computer program product for activating a short-range communication module associated with a mobile terminal, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:
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