Building mobile apps via Compound Wireless Services
07 May 2010
Mobile applications (apps), because of their utility, are receiving considerable attention. Manufacturers of mobile terminals and cellular service providers advertise their apps and thereby create incentives to sell their terminals/services. Although the apps being built possess options to alter their specific behavior, they are not designed to link with apps developed by other entities. Unless development coordination exists between the two entities, it is unlikely that an app built by one entity can be compatibly linked to an app built by another entity. A major feature of Compound Wireless (Mobile Communication) Services (CWSs) is to facilitate the linking of apps without requiring development coordination between the entities responsible for the apps to be linked. Currently apps are built with line coding and using the tool kits provided by the terminal manufacturers or mobile operating systems providers. This limits apps building to those trained in this discipline and have established a financial relationship with terminal manufacturers/ mobile operating systems providers. An intuitive graphical approach exists for building CWS apps. Hence, building and linking CWS apps becomes possible without extensive training and includes most owners of the mobile terminals. As a background, CWS derives its name from grammar. A simple sentence consists of a single assertion; e.g., "I am going to the store."