| US 7,463,894 B2 | ||
| Determining the context of surroundings | ||
| Andrew E. Fano, Lincolnshire, Ill. (US); and Scott W. Kurth, Wheeling, Ill. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Accenture Global Services GmbH, Schaffhausen (Switzerland) | ||
| Filed on May 02, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/381,181. | ||
| Application 11/381181 is a division of application No. 10/027188, filed on Dec. 20, 2001, granted, now 7,133,663. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0193288 A1, Aug. 31, 2006 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04Q 7/20 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—456.1 [455/456.5; 455/456.6; 455/414.1; 455/414.2] | 24 Claims |
| 1. A system comprising:
a plurality of context-determining devices each having a short range wireless signal transceiver capable of receiving wireless
signals and configured to broadcast information via short range wireless signals independent of any received wireless signals;
and
at least one subscriber unit configured to detect presence of at least one of the plurality of context-determining devices
by at least detecting the short range wireless signals from the at least one of the plurality of context-determining devices
and further configured to derive contextual information from the short range wireless signals,
wherein the derived contextual information includes at least information relating to one or more service capabilities of the
at least one of the plurality of context-determining devices;
wherein the at least one subscriber unit is further configured to issue, to the at least one of the plurality of context-determining
devices, one or more wireless control signals capable of controlling one or more services of the one or more service capabilities
based on the derived contextual information.
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