NOVELTY - The system and method is for context and location dependent applications resident on mobile terminals used in vehicles to provide services and products to local end-users by local business or service providers. The system and method use concepts of master and secondary worlds.    USE - System and method for context and location dependent applications resident on mobile terminals used in vehicles to provide services and products to local end-users by local business or service providers.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - To provide a standardized solution, a uniform definition of the world is made in terms of hierarchical tree of nodes, where each node represents some aspect of the world and each node is connected to at least one other node by a branch. An exemplary classification of nodes takes place on a physical level (e.g. physical locations such as political entities, infrastructure entities and public places), as well as a non-physical level (e.g. military APO's). This hierarchical nodal structure is referred to as the Master World, and is a standardized view world wide. The master world defines a politically correct and publicly accepted hierarchical tree structure that catalogs physical location or geographical divisions of the earth. These include many different classes of political, administrative and geographic entities across the entire earth, and thus defines a uniform way of defining locations. The Master world makes use of an index scheme that can identify peer level nodes by virtue of the geographic proximity. This scheme makes use of a quad tree algorithm to define so-called 'geozones'. The secondary world is defined by an individual organization and is used to provide support for additional context and might be defined by a third party organization or company and contains nodes that comprise physical and/or logical entities that are unique to that organization. In defining the Secondary world, it need not necessarily conform to the Master World. That is, while the Master world is essentially a physical hierarchical representation of the world, the secondary world can be physical and/or l;logical representations of each individual entities' world view. In one embodiment, an exemplary vehicle computer system (1200) can be used in connection with the context-aware systems and methods described and is configured for use in a car, truck or similar vehicle, being connected to various peripheral devices, including a display, security sensors, diagnostic interface, speakers, battery and antenna. The type of information provided to the vehicle can be weather and traffic reports, rest stops, suggestions regarding food, gas stations, scenic view points and the like. The user is able to specify their preferences and whilst the location service determines the vehicles location, an application informs the driver of the local services. the information provided to the user can be associated with one or more user-specified preferences, for example, preferential restaurants, such as McDonald's, Stuckeys and Denny's while on the road. Another embodiment considers the context of a vehicle comprises the user or the driver where they are presumed to have preferences associated with user-specific experience they desire when using the vehicle such as preferential seat settings. When the context is location, different drivers might have different preferences indicating where they desire to eat, their points of interest, radio station types etc.    INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for a method of operating a vehicle, a context aware system, a location-aware system, and a user-aware vehicle    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a diagram of an exemplary computing device of the context aware system.    Computer (600)    Context service module (602)    Context providers (604)    Applications (608)