Patent ID: 6968334

Claim:
A wireless device to provide recommendations to a user that are appropriate to the device's current environment, comprising: a sensor for providing sensor signals as a metadata vector which represents the current sensor signals and characterizes the current state of the wireless device characterizing a current environment of the wireless device; a context inference engine coupled to the sensor, for processing the sensor signals said context inference engine providing a current context result from the processing; a processor coupled to the context inference engine, for forming a context-activity pair by selecting an activity and pairing with the current context result; a database coupled to the processor, for providing recommendations using the context-activity pair without user identification wherein the database comprises a table listing context-activity pairs each related to (i) a listing of service recommendations and (ii) a listing of number times recommended for each service recommendation; and an output device coupled to the database, for providing the recommendations to the user in response to the context-activity pair.