Google is betting heavily on mobile industry. In the same week Google unveiled T-Mobile G1 (the first Android), a patent application suggests it is planning to rid users of the need to choose a single network at all.
This latest Google patent application is called “Flexible Communication Systems and Methods”, and describes a system where a communication device is capable to connect to any available wireless network.
Talking to the wireless networks, the communications device is able to obtain the terms of services from these networks. So, wireless service providers can submit and adjust the real time bids offering their services (these can include voice, data, VoIP and various other communication forms), and users can either manually accept the bid that looks best to them, or have the phone choose one automatically (based on pre-programmed criteria).
It’s unclear whether the patent will result in an actual system, but the idea certainly is an intriguing one. “We file patent applications on a variety of ideas that our employees come up with,” the NewScientist.com report quoted a Google spokesperson as saying. “Some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don’t.”
Vía xatakamovil, NewSciencist
