Patent ID: 8644854
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: selecting collected data stored in a memory device accessible by a basic mobile phone device in response to a request from at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device, wherein the at least one application comprises a location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information application; processing the collected data in the at least one application to cause the at least one application to generate synthesized data to describe location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information based at least in part on an evaluation of at least one property of at least a subset of the collected data; discovering, using the basic mobile phone device, at least one enhanced mobile phone device comprising a sensor configured to generate sensor data not internally available to the basic mobile phone device based at least in part on the evaluation of the at least one property of the at least the subset of the collected data; transmitting a data request for the sensor data from the basic mobile phone device to the at least one enhanced mobile phone device; receiving the sensor data at the basic mobile phone device from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device in response to the data request; and processing the sensor data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device in the at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device to enable the at least one application to generate the synthesized data to describe the location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information.