Location system for a wireless path
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1. A system for a preferred wireless path between a mobile device and a target device using multiple wireless intervening transmitters comprising:
- (a) preference means using unique device addresses so that the mobile device preferentially indirectly communicates with the target device through two or more intervening transmitters;
(b) data storage means for storing location data of the physical locations of intervening transmitters and the target device in one or more of the target device, one or more of the intervening transmitters, and the target device sufficient so that if the mobile device is out of range of the target device and in range of an intervening transmitter a preferred wireless path based on the locations is determined; and
(c) path means for causing the preferential communication to take place along the preferred wireless path.
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The present invention is a system of at least a mobile wireless device and multiple communications paths from it to a target device, where the communications paths are through wireless intervening transmitters whose physical locations are used to determine a preferred path. A preferred system is one operating with a most direct physical path between the mobile device and the target device among the available communications paths.
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1. A system for a preferred wireless path between a mobile device and a target device using multiple wireless intervening transmitters comprising:
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(a) preference means using unique device addresses so that the mobile device preferentially indirectly communicates with the target device through two or more intervening transmitters;
(b) data storage means for storing location data of the physical locations of intervening transmitters and the target device in one or more of the target device, one or more of the intervening transmitters, and the target device sufficient so that if the mobile device is out of range of the target device and in range of an intervening transmitter a preferred wireless path based on the locations is determined; and
(c) path means for causing the preferential communication to take place along the preferred wireless path. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system determining a preferred path between a mobile device and a target device using multiple intervening transmitters making available several alternate transmission paths comprising:
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(a) preference means causing the mobile device to preferentially communicate with the target device through two or more intervening transmitters;
(b) location data of the physical locations of intervening transmitters and the target device in one or more of the target device stored at one or more of the intervening transmitters, and the target device so that if the mobile device is out of range of the target device and in range of an intervening transmitter a preferred path determined; and
(c) path means for causing the preferential communication to take place along the preferred wireless path. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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