Devices and methods for detecting environmental circumstances and responding with designated communication actions

摘要

Provided are a wireless communication device and a communication device control method that include a set of templates corresponding to a plurality of potential environmental circumstances. The templates may be stored in a database in the computer readable memory of the communication device. At predetermined intervals, a suite of environmental sensors integral to the communication device may periodically sample the user's environment. The user's environmental circumstances may be derived or inferred by an analysis module based on the output of the suite of environmental sensors and then may be compared to the templates to determine a matching template. An action script is then executed based at least partially on the matching template which may include the contacting of a responding party.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a computer interface connection, a set of environmental data from a central telecommunications server; deriving, by an analysis module, a set of environmental circumstances based on the set of environmental data and output from different types of environmental sensors, integrated into a communication device, that periodically sample a user environment, wherein the different types of environmental sensors have different respective sampling periods; comparing, by the analysis module, the set of environmental circumstances to a set of templates to determine whether there is a matching template; selecting, if more than one of the templates matches the set of environmental circumstances, a best-match template; and executing, if the best-match template is selected, an action script.