Performing context-aware spatial, temporal, and attribute searches for providers or resources

摘要

Performing a search to locate a set of candidate providers within a current context. An inventory associates each of a respective plurality of providers with a corresponding context of a plurality of contexts, a corresponding temporally defined dynamic state, and a corresponding set of static attributes. The inventory is searched to identify providers that are associated with the current context. The corresponding temporally defined dynamic state and the corresponding set of static attributes that are associated with each of the identified providers is retrieved. A query comprising a target temporally defined dynamic state and a target static attribute is received. A filtered set of providers is identified which satisfies the target static attribute. Each of the corresponding temporally defined dynamic states are compared with the target temporally defined state to determine a corresponding matching closeness level for each provider of the filtered set.