TECHNIQUES FOR OFFERING CONTEXT TO SERVICE PROVIDERS UTILIZING AN APPROVAL SERVICE AND INCENTIVES UTLIZING ONLINE SECURE PROFILE STORAGE

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering incentive based context to service providers, comprising capturing context information of a user and distributing the context information to the service provider, the user capable of using a plurality of context capturing devices t...

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Hauptverfasser: KEANY BERNARD N, SANDAGE DAVID A, WOOD MATTHEW D, YARVIS MARK D, STROEBEL THOMAS W
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Zusammenfassung:An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering incentive based context to service providers, comprising capturing context information of a user and distributing the context information to the service provider, the user capable of using a plurality of context capturing devices that all coordinate with an online secure profile storage service to provide a highly-available entity with which all the plurality of context capturing devices share profile information, wherein the profile storage service enables access to a user's profile by online services when any or all of the user's devices are offline, and wherein the service provider provides an incentive to the user for the context information.