CONTROLLING ONE OR MORE PROXIMATE DEVICES VIA A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON ONE OR MORE DETECTED USER ACTIONS WHILE THE MOBILE DEVICE OPERATES IN A LOW POWER MODE

摘要

In an embodiment, a mobile device is equipped with an application processor configured to execute a HLOS and a secondary processor(s) configured to control sensor(s) coupled to the mobile device. The mobile device monitors the sensor(s) while the mobile device is operating in a low power mode that is characterized by one or more cores of the application processor being in a power collapse state or dormant state. The mobile device identifies a user action based on the monitoring and communicates, while the mobile device continues to operate in the low power mode, with detected proximate device(s) over a local wireless communications interface to request that at least one device action changing a user interface output feature and/or a user environment feature be implemented at the detected proximate device(s).

主权项

1. A method of operating a mobile device that is equipped with an application processor configured to execute a High Level Operating System (HLOS) of the mobile device and a set of secondary processors configured to control a set of sensors coupled to the mobile device, comprising:
monitoring the set of sensors while the mobile device is operating in a low power mode that is characterized by one or more cores of the application processor being in a dormant state or a power collapse state; identifying, based on the monitoring, a user action; mapping the user action to a set of device actions to be implemented at a set of devices; detecting that at least one device from the set of devices is currently proximate to the mobile device; and communicating, in response to the detecting while the mobile device continues to operate in the low power mode, with the detected at least one proximate device over a local wireless communications interface to request that at least one device action from the set of device actions that changes a user interface output feature and/or a user environment feature be implemented at the detected at least one proximate device.