Method and system for proximity and context based deduction of position for a GPS enable computing device

摘要

A mechanism is described for facilitating proximity and context-based deduction of global positioning of computing devices according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes detecting wireless proximity of a plurality of computing devices with respect to a computing device, and selecting one or more of the plurality of computing devices based on their detected proximity to the computing device. The method may further include receiving contextual information from the one or more computing devices, and semantically deducing location of the computing device based on the received contextual information.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
proximity detection unit to detect wireless proximities associated with of a plurality of computing devices with respect to a computing device, wherein the detecting includes measuring, via adaptive clocking, local interferences associated with the plurality of computing devices, wherein the local interferences are used as signals for detecting the wireless proximities; proximity monitor to monitor the proximity detection based on the detected wireless proximities, wherein the monitoring includes selecting one or more computing devices of the plurality of computing devices within defined levels of one or more of the detected wireless proximities associated with the one or more of the computing devices; query module to query contextual information relating to the one or more computing devices, wherein the contextual information includes data including at least one or more of physical locations, roaming positions, stationary positions, one or more users of the one or more computing device, and interests or life modes relating to the one or more users; analyzer to analyze the one or more detected wireless proximities based on the contextual information; and deduction module to semantically deduce one or more locations of the one or more computing devices based on the analyzed contextual information.