Supplying notifications related to supply and consumption of user context data

A method in a computer for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes, the method comprising:

• under control of an attribute request receiver component of an intermediary module executing in memory, receiving from a module a request related to the modeling of the current state with the multiple state attributes;
• and
• under control of an attribute request satisfier component of the intermediary module executing in memory and without further intervention related to the request by the module,
• determining that the request cannot currently be satisfied, and indicating to the module that the request cannot currently be satisfied;
• after the indicating, monitoring at later times to determine whether the request can be satisfied;
• and
• when it is determined at one of the later times that the request can currently be satisfied, indicating to the module that the request can be satisfied.

A computer-readable medium whose contents when executed cause a computing device to provide information about a current state that is represented with multiple attributes, by performing a method comprising:

• receiving from a module a request related to modeling of the current state with the multiple attributes;
• and
• without further input from the module related to the request,
• indicating to the module a determination that the request cannot currently be satisfied;
• after the indicating, monitoring to determine whether the request can be satisfied;
• and
• when it is determined that the request can currently be satisfied, indicating to the module that the request can be satisfied, and
• wherein the receiving of the request is performed by an attribute request receiver component, wherein the indicating of the determination and the monitoring and the indicating that the request can be satisfied are performed by an attribute request satisfier component, and wherein the attribute request receiver component and the attribute request satisfier component are part of an intermediary module executing in memory.

A computing device for providing information about a current state that is represented with multiple attributes, comprising:

• an attribute request receiver component that is capable of receiving from a module a request related to modeling of a current state with multiple state attributes;
• and
• an attribute request satisfier component that is capable of, without further input from the module related to the request, indicating to the module a determination that the request cannot currently be satisfied, automatically monitoring to determine whether the request can be satisfied after the indicating, and indicating to the module that the request can be satisfied after it is determined that the request can currently be satisfied,
• and wherein the attribute request receiver component and the attribute request satisfier component are part of an intermediary module executing in memory.