Contextual information management in wireless communications devices and methods therefor
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsFrederick Rohles, Venugopal Vasudevan, Joseph F. Wodka
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Abstract
A method in a wireless communication device including requesting contextual information from a source outside the wireless communication device, the contextual information requested by a context aware application on the wireless communications device, and providing alternate contextual information to the context aware application with a contextual information discriminator of the wireless communications device when contextual information from the source from which contextual information is requested is not available.
Claims17
A method in a wireless communication device, comprising:
- requesting contextual information from a source outside the wireless communication device,
- the contextual information requested by a context aware application on the wireless communication device;
- providing alternate contextual information to the context aware application with a contextual information discriminator of the wireless communication device when contextual information from the source from which contextual information is requested is not available.
A method in a wireless communication device, comprising:
- requesting contextual information from a contextual information source,
- the contextual information source located off the wireless communication device,
- providing contextual information to the wireless communication device in response to the request via a contextual information discriminator, the contextual information being at least one of
- from a source other than the source from which contextual information is requested,
- from a source adjacent to the source from which contextual information is requested in response to the request, and
- from at least two sources other than the source from which contextual information is requested in response to the request.
A method in a wireless communication network, comprising:
- receiving a request for contextual information from a contextual information source located in the wireless communication network,
- the request received from a wireless communication device in the wireless communication network;
- providing contextual information via a contextual information discriminator located within the wireless communication network in response to the request,
- the contextual information discriminator capable of selecting an alternate contextual information source in the event that the source from which contextual information is requested is unavailable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.