Patent ID: 6901261

Claim:
Mobile telephony process, comprising: a) providing at least one context-sensitive service (Si) adapted to create, control access and/or adjust at least some characteristics of said service according to context data; b) providing at least one access interface (Bai) belonging to a chosen communication infrastructure, and having a chosen geographical coverage, for access to said context sensitive service by at least one portable set (Ui); c) providing at least one mobile station (SMi) in the chosen geographical coverage of said access interface; d) providing said at least one mobile station (SMi) and at least some of said portable sets with respective short-range radio frequency communication means adapted for short-range radio frequency communication with each other, a perimeter (Pi) being associated with the radio coverages of one or more given ones of said short-range communications means; e) in response to a particular one of said one or more given short-range radio frequency communication means being within said perimeter (Pi), establishing respective short range communications between said particular radio frequency communications means and said one or more given short-range communication means; f) sending attributes associated with said perimeter (Pi) through said short-range communications established at step e); and g) submitting said attributes as said context data to said at least one context-sensitive service, whereby said context-sensitive service (Si) may be created, access-controlled and/or adjusted according to the physical proximity between said portable sets and said at least one mobile station.