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The era of ubiquitous connectivity is made possible by the ever increasing abundance of mobile phones. A plethora of opportunities for the common man is unfolded as the phones become smarter and cheaper. Additionally, new and novel ways and means of doing business are being created for the service providers and service consumers, using the mobile channel. These opportunities have the potential to disrupt the entire service ecosystem.
However, the emergence of the mobile services also brings about new challenges. The technologies that exist today are not capable of supporting this innovative service model. A complete set of technologies is required for these services to succeed. Our vision is to provide these technologies from HP, and enable Mobile services for all.
As part of this initiative, we are creating technologies that make it easy for a mobile subscriber to create new services, offer them to others, and charge for it - without much effort. We envision a smart market place for future mobile services, which enables users to discover new services, and use existing services as well. This technology can be used by anybody who already has a mobile subscriber base. Our approach also relies on using the existing infrastructure effectively so that the transition to the new model does not involve large investment.
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With the proliferation of mobile devices, there is an opportunity to radically impact the mobile ecosystem. However, the usage of mobile devices still remains to be mostly for voice based communication, much more than for data communications. We believe that there is a strong possibility to make an impact on the entire software ecosystem, if we consider the mobile devices to support information flow between the information seekers and providers. With the HP moving into a strong play within the cloud ecosystem, we believe that we are strongly positioned to make an impact.
Imagine a scenario in which a user has a set of crops that he intends to sell. He would beinterested in finding out how to sell those, whom to sell those crops so that he can make the maximum money, who would be a trustworthy buyer and so on. Similarly, it is likely that a user is looking for a doctor within a radius of 1km, and he would need to know the exact location of the doctor if he finds one. It is also likely that somebody is looking for a teacher who can teach mathematics for his kids, and available for coming to the kid's house for teaching the lessons.
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Enterprises usually deal with two kinds of users - a set of end users (or external users) who subscribe to the expertise offered by the enterprises and pay for it, and a set of internal users who usually provide the expertise that is aggregated and made available by the enterprise to the external users. For example, in case of a large hospital, the patients can be looked upon as end users, whereas the doctors, nurses, departmental staff etc are all looked upon as internal users (who usually make up the workforce for the enterprise). This is true for most enterprises - be it large or small. The usual practice is to package this expertise as a software service, and make it available to others. With the ubiquitous presence of mobile devices, the users are increasingly becoming mobile.
Service oriented architecture helps us to create an ecosystem wherein service consumers and producers co-exist without any dependency on each other. The services are usually available in a service catalog, and these are discovered by the service consumers as and when required.
Our intention is to create a set of smart mobile services that can be executed on multiple platforms (including the mobile phone itself), and a smart service marketplace that can facilitate the composition, advertise/discovery/accept, invocation and payment of services.
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- Location Based Services: Sharing of the location information across mobile entities and thier wait times (queue information). For example, we would want to enable users to find out how long they have to wait - and if possible, provide continuous updates about this wait time to the user.
- Smart Service Market Place(SSMP): Enabling a marketplace of smart services. Enable the discovery of mobile smart services , their composition, advertisement, acceptance and usage.
- Secure Mobile Transactions: Enabling transactions spanning the mobile device
- Federated SSMPs - Federation of SSMPs with each other and support composite services
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- "Trust Based Multi-Device Communication and Query Framework" by Saigopal Thota, Raghu Anantharangachar, and Sudhir Dixit (Presented at the WWRF Conference, Greece, 2012). Provisionally accepted for publication in IEEE VTC magazine.
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