Patent ID: 6714778
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: G01S,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A method to enable a wireless device to provide information to its user that is related to the device's current environment, comprising:receiving sensor signals characterizing a current environment of the wireless device, including first environmental signals and second environmental signals; combining the first environmental signals and the second environmental signals into composite sensor signals; processing the composite sensor signals with a context inference engine in the wireless device; outputting a current context result from the processing by the context inference engine; appending to an application program, an authorization to access the current context result information to the user in response to the current context result; automatically granting access permission to the application program to access the current context result, in response to the authorization providing the current context result to the application program in response to the authorization; and receiving the information from the application program.