Patent ID: 8380127

Claim:
A plurality of mobile communication devices for performing one or more locally collaborative operations for sensing a local environment and remote reception, wherein each one of said plurality of mobile communication devices comprises: wireless communication circuitry responsive to one or more local wireless transmission signals from at least another of said plurality of mobile communication devices by providing one or more incoming local communication signals, and one or more outgoing local communication signals by providing one or more local wireless transmission signals for reception by at least another of said plurality of mobile communication devices; processing circuitry coupled to said wireless communication circuitry and responsive to at least one of said one or more incoming local communication signals and one or more input signals by providing at least one of one or more output signals and said one or more outgoing local communication signals; and input/output circuitry coupled to said processing circuitry and responsive to at least one of one or more local stimuli and said one or more output signals by providing at least one of said one or more input signals and one or more local energy emissions; wherein a first one of said plurality of mobile communication devices receives a first one of said one or more local environmental characteristic stimuli, exclusive of sound energy emitted by the local environment, and in response thereto provides a first one of said one or more local wireless transmission signals, and a second one of said plurality of mobile communication devices responds to said first one of said one or more local wireless transmission signals by providing a first one of said one or more local energy emissions related to said first one of said one or more local environmental characteristic stimuli.