Portable electronic device and method for determining its context

Jani Mantyjarvi (Inventor), Johan Himberg (Inventor), Pertti Huuskonen (Inventor)

Research output: PatentPatent application

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for determining a context of a portable electronic device, and to a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device comprises a user interface, a context, means for maintaining local context information of the first device, a short-range radio transceiver, means for receiving context information transmitted by a second portable electronic device belonging to a dynamic adhoc network determined by the coverage area of the short-range radio transceiver, and means for determining a confidence level of the context of the first device by using the local context information of the first device and the received context information of the adhoc network.

Original languageEnglish
Patent numberUS2004002948 AA
IPCH04M 3/ 42 A I
Priority date4/03/02
Filing date3/11/03
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2004
MoE publication typeNot Eligible

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