Method of instant sharing invoked from wearable devices

• US 10,534,429 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2017
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Su, Su, Jun, Wilson, John D., Xia, Yin
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughan, Michael R
• Application Number:
  US15/403,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20180196510A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3866 carried on the head
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed herein for establishing a file transfer connection via wearable devices (e.g., head-mounted wearable devices). A first wearable device generates a gesture-based connection request to connect with a second wearable device. The first wearable device is associated with a first mobile device, and the second wearable device is associated with a second mobile device. The first wearable device sends the gesture-based connection request to a service to authenticate a connection with the second wearable device. The connection is established with the second wearable device in response to receiving an authentication response from the service. The first wearable device directs the first mobile device to transfer a file to the second mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a first wearable device, that a first user wearing the first wearable device and a second user wearing a second wearable device are gazing at each other;

upon determining that the first and second users are gazing at each other, activating, by the first wearable device, a microphone on the first wearable device;

collecting voice input from the first user using the activated microphone;

determining that the first user desires to transmit a file to the second user based on processing the voice input using one or more natural language processing techniques;

upon determining that the first user desires to transmit a file to the second user, generating, from the first wearable device, a gesture-based connection request to connect with the second wearable device, wherein the first wearable device is associated with a first mobile device controlled by the first user, and wherein the second wearable device is associated with a second mobile device controlled by the second user;

sending the gesture-based connection request to a service to authenticate a connection with the second wearable device;

establishing the connection with the second wearable device in response to receiving an authentication response from the service; and

directing, via the first wearable device, the first mobile device to transfer the file to the second mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second wearable devices are each a head-mounted wearable device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture-based connection request includes information identifying at least a first user and a second user and information identifying the first wearable device and the second wearable device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the information identifying the at least the first user includes biometric data associated with the first user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the file was successfully transferred from the first mobile device to the second mobile device; and

terminating the connection.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein directing, via the first wearable device, the first mobile device to transfer the file to the second mobile device comprises:

receiving a selection of the file;

generating a request including the selection of the file;

sending the request to the service, wherein the service validates the request; and

upon receiving a validation from the service for the request, sending the file to the second mobile device.

7. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which, when executed on a processor, performs an operation comprising;

determining, by a first wearable device, that a first user wearing the first wearable device and a second user wearing a second wearable device are gazing at each other,

upon determining that the first and second users are gazing at each other, activating, by the first wearable device, a microphone on the first wearable device,

collecting voice input from the first user using the activated microphone,

determining that the first user desires to transmit a file to the second user based on processing the voice input using one or more natural language processing techniques,

upon determining that the first user desires to transmit a file to the second user, generating, from the first wearable device, a gesture-based connection request to connect with the second wearable device, wherein the first wearable device is associated with a first mobile device controlled by the first user, and wherein the second wearable device is associated with a second mobile device controlled by the second user,

sending the gesture-based connection request to a service to authenticate a connection with the second wearable device,

establishing the connection with the second wearable device in response to receiving an authentication response from the service, and

directing, via the first wearable device, the first mobile device to transfer the file to the second mobile device.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the first and second wearable devices are each a head-mounted wearable device.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the gesture-based connection request includes information identifying at least a first user and a second user and information identifying the first wearable device and the second wearable device.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the information identifying the at least the first user includes biometric data associated with the first user.

11. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the operation further comprises:

determining that the file was successfully transferred from the first mobile device to the second mobile device; and

terminating the connection.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein directing, via the first wearable device, the first mobile device to transfer the file to the second mobile device comprises:

receiving a selection of the file;

generating a request including the selection of the file;

sending the request to the service, wherein the service validates the request; and

upon receiving a validation from the service for the request, sending the file to the second mobile device.

13. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing program code, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation comprising;

determining, by a first wearable device, that a first user wearing the first wearable device and a second user wearing a second wearable device are gazing at each other,

upon determining that the first and second users are gazing at each other, activating, by the first wearable device, a microphone on the first wearable device,

collecting voice input from the first user using the activated microphone,

determining that the first user desires to transmit a file to the second user based on processing the voice input using one or more natural language processing techniques,

upon determining that the first user desires to transmit a file to the second user, generating, from the first wearable device, a gesture-based connection request to connect with the second wearable device, wherein the first wearable device is associated with a first mobile device controlled by the first user, and wherein the second wearable device is associated with a second mobile device controlled by the second user,

sending the gesture-based connection request to a service to authenticate a connection with the second wearable device,

establishing the connection with the second wearable device in response to receiving an authentication response from the service, and

directing, via the first wearable device, the first mobile device to transfer the file to the second mobile device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the gesture-based connection request includes information identifying at least a first user and a second user and information identifying the first wearable device and the second wearable device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the information identifying the at least the first user includes biometric data associated with the first user.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the operation further comprises:

determining that the file was successfully transferred from the first mobile device to the second mobile device; and

terminating the connection.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein directing, via the first wearable device, the first mobile device to transfer the file to the second mobile device comprises:

receiving a selection of the file;

generating a request including the selection of the file;

sending the request to the service, wherein the service validates the request; and

upon receiving a validation from the service for the request, sending the file to the second mobile device.