Devices and methods for detecting environmental circumstances and responding with designated communication actions

A non-transitory computer readable storage device having instructions recorded thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a set of environmental data from a central telecommunications server;
• deriving a set of environmental circumstances based the set of environmental data and on output from different types of environmental sensors, integrated into a communication device, that periodically sample a user environment, wherein the different types of environmental sensors have different respective sampling periods;
• comparing the set of environmental circumstances to a set of templates to determine if there is a matching template;
• selecting, if more than one of the templates matches the set of environmental circumstances, a best-match template;
• and
• executing, if the best-match template is selected, an action script.

A device, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a set of environmental data from a central telecommunications server;
• deriving a set of environmental circumstances based the set of environmental data and on output from different types of environmental sensors, integrated into a communication device, that periodically sample a user environment, wherein the different types of environmental sensors have different respective sampling periods;
• comparing the set of environmental circumstances to a set of templates to determine if there is a matching template;
• selecting, if more than one of the templates matches the set of environmental circumstances, a best-match template;
• and
• executing, if the best-match template is selected, an action script.