Patent ID: 9667354
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G01R,H04B,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed in a communication device comprising an Electric Field (EF) sensor and a communication circuitry, for initiating situational based communication actions in the communication device, the method comprising: storing, on the communication device, data that represents one or more predetermined characteristic of an electric field; monitoring, with the EF sensor, an electric field surrounding the communication device; analyzing an output from the EF sensor that represents one or more characteristics of the monitored electric field surrounding the communication device to detect a changed characteristic in the one or more characteristics of the electric field surrounding the communication device; evaluating the detected changed characteristic in the one or more characteristics of the electric field surrounding the communication device with respect to the stored data that represents the predetermined characteristic of the electric field; determining, based on the evaluation, that the detected changed characteristic matches the predetermined characteristic; and activating the communication circuitry based on the determination.