TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING ACTUAL AND/OR NEAR STATES OF PROXIMITY BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES

摘要

Techniques are provided that may be implemented in various methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for use by one or more electronic devices to support proximity services for a mobile device. In an example implementation, a computing device may determine whether a first mobile device and a second mobile device are each operatively provisioned to make use of a common proximity service, use a first procedure to determine whether a state of near proximity exists between at least two mobile devices, use a second procedure to determine whether a state of proximity exists between the at least two mobile devices, and initiate notification of a user and/or an application of at least one of the mobile devices in response to one or more of such determinations.

主权项

1. A method of supporting proximity services for a mobile device comprising, with a computing device:
determining whether a first mobile device and a second mobile device are each operatively provisioned to make use of a common proximity service; determining using a first procedure that a state of near proximity exists between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, wherein the first mobile device and the second mobile device are not in proximity; determining at a subsequent time and using a second procedure that a state of proximity exists between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, wherein the second procedure differs from the first procedure; and initiating notification of a user and/or an application of at least one of the first mobile device or the second mobile device that the state of proximity has occurred.