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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Minho Jin, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Taesu Kim, Seoul, KR;
Kisun You, Suwon, KR;
Hyun-Mook Cho, Seoul, KR;
Hyung-Il Koo, Seoul, KR;
Duck-Hoon Kim, Seoul, KR;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling an application in a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes receiving environmental information, inferring an environmental context from the environmental information, and controlling activation of the application based on a set of reference models associated with the inferred environmental context. In addition, the method may include receiving a sound input, extracting a sound feature from the sound input, transmitting the sound feature to a server configured to group a plurality of mobile devices into at least one similar context group, and receiving, from the server, information on a leader device or a non-leader device and the at least one similar context group.