Patent ID: 8731537
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile device configured to access a plurality of operating resources, the mobile device comprising: a measurement generator to provide at least freely available measurement information of the plurality of operating resources; an inference engine to generate inferred context information from the freely available measurement information; and a context awareness engine to access at least one of the freely available measurement information and the inferred context information to determine context conditions of the mobile device and to identify at least one of the plurality of operating resources as one or more candidate resources for a service application based on the determined context conditions, the context awareness engine being configured to evaluate the one or more candidate resources using evaluation metrics to measure at least one of cost and effectiveness of the one or more candidate resources, to select at least one of the one or more candidate resources for use by the service application based on the evaluation metrics, and to provide the service application with at least one of the resources of the mobile device, wherein the freely available measurement information includes at least one of: a data accuracy measurement; an identification of a transmitter associated with the mobile device; received signal strength information; or received signal phase information.