Patent ID: 9414183
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising; determining at least one group of two or more devices that have one or more group contexts that are at least substantially similar, at least substantially correlated, or a combination thereof, wherein the determining comprises accessing a profile database storing at least data with respect to context sensors that are available to the two or more devices, data relating to data plans available to the two or more devices, and costs associated with the data plans; distributing one or more context sensing tasks among the two or more devices of the at least one group based on the data with respect to context sensors that are available to the two or more devices, the data relating to data plans available to the two or more devices, and the costs associated with the data plans, wherein one of the one or more context sensing tasks is not distributed to one of the two or more devices of the at least one group; and processing one or more results of the one or more context sensing tasks to (a) modify the one or more group contexts; (b) enhance the one or more group contexts; (c) determine one or more other group contexts; or (d) a combination thereof.