Patent ID: 8768306

Claim:
A method for adaptive mobile identity comprising: running a first application onboard a first mobile device, wherein the application can be installed from a program repository to the first mobile device, wherein the application can be un-installed from the first mobile device, wherein upon or after activation of an icon associated with the first application, the first application can go from the background to the foreground of the first mobile device; whereby upon or after the first application goes to the foreground of the first mobile device, publishing at least one first scannable attribute indicating the first application is in the foreground, wherein the at least one first scannable attribute can be read or can be scanned wirelessly using short wireless communication technology, wherein the scannable attribute can change, wherein if the first application stops running, the at least one first scannable attribute is not published; whereby upon or after the first application goes from the foreground to the background of the first mobile device, changing the value corresponding to the at least one first scannable attribute.