A Context-Aware Search System for Smart Phones Based on Context-Aware Infrastructure

Abstract

The major objectives behind designing the context-aware architecture are to: i) collect the mobile user’s context information, ii) derive a meaningful & a usable current context from user’s accumulated context information, iii) replicate and/or distribute this current context information among the context-aware systems and thereby, support building a context-aware platform that delivers search results which are closer to the user’s current context & are more specifically tailored for user’s current search semantics. The user’s context information is maintained & updated at the server, so as to reuse it across different context aware backend providers. The process of context reasoning, itself takes place at the application level. By implementing context-aware architectures, applications can derive user context profiles. Such user context profiles can be integrated with the 3rd party search providers like, Yahoo search engine or the ones plugged into the platform to meet the users’ demands for the services and products they are searching for around.