FIELD: information technologies.
SUBSTANCE: request is received from a mobile phone to provide a service rendered by a personal network, and its location is detected. Based on an information base, devices are detected, which may provide the requested service, current location of those devices, current location of which is identified in the information base, is detected, current location of those devices, current location of which is not identified in the information base, is detected, on the basis of current location of devices relative to location of a mobile device it is identified, which devices are suitable and non-suitable in respect to the requested service. Then this information is provided to the mobile device in the form of a list, where devices are arranged in the order from the nearest one to the most distant one relative to the mobile device, the choice of one of suitable devices is accepted from the mobile device to provide the requested service, and the requested service is provided by the chosen device to the mobile device.
EFFECT: making it possible for a user to detect devices connected to a personal network and services that these devices provide to users, to detect users that have access to services.
10 cl, 8 dwg
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Dates
2012-09-27—Published
2008-02-15—Filed