US Patent 7467353 - AI based aggegation of functionality for portable electronics

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Most people carry multiple electronic devices at any given time such as a cell phone, a music player, a camera, electronic scheduler, etc. Often a user will have certain preferences or settings for these electronic devices such as setting of the time of day, location (via GPS), phone numbers, or scheduling information which need to be set to multiple of the devices. This patent from Microsoft teaches a system that pools such information between mobile devices for more efficient data management. Claim 1 reads:

1. A system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium that facilitates pooling a plurality of resources, comprising:

a context determination component that employs data derived from a plurality of sensors and an artificial intelligence scheme to dynamically infer a context of a user; and

a consolidation component that determines availability of a set of disparate devices, selects a subset of the disparate devices, and aggregates data from the subset of disparate devices, selection and aggregation based at least in part upon the context of a user.