Method and apparatus for a virtual accelerometer system

1. A virtual accelerometer receiving data from a real accelerometer, the virtual accelerometer comprising:

an active process identifier engine to identify any active applications that may use accelerometer data;

an Intelligent Signal Interpretation and Separation (ISIS) Engine to separate raw accelerometer data for each of the active applications that use accelerometer data; and

a universal application program interface (API) to provide separated accelerometer data to an application.

2. The virtual accelerometer of claim 1 , wherein the active process identifier engine is further to turn off the real accelerometer when no applications are using the accelerometer data.

3. The virtual accelerometer of claim 1 , further comprising:

a sample rate selector to select a sample rate for the real accelerometer based on the identified active applications.

4. The virtual accelerometer of claim 1 , further comprising:

an adjustment logic to remove an application from a list of active applications receiving accelerometer data, based on current activity levels.

5. The virtual accelerometer of claim 1 , further comprising:

an adjustment logic to adjust motion data used by the ISIS engine based on a current activity level of the user.

6. The virtual accelerometer of claim 1 , further comprising:

a registration logic to enable a user to register motion data for an application, the motion data used by the ISIS engine to identify a portion of the accelerometer data associated with the application.

7. The virtual accelerometer of claim 6 , further comprising:

the registration logic to utilize a set of sample motions by the user to set the motion data.

8. The virtual accelerometer of claim 6 , further comprising:

a calibration logic to calibrate sample motion data based on actual user motion.