Body wearable personal network server and system

• US 20030236821A1
• Filed: 06/05/2002
• Published: 12/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Goun-Zong Jiau
• Original Assignee: Goun-Zong Jiau
• Inventors: Jiau, Goun-Zong
• Application Number:
  US10/163,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20030236821A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

A body wearable personal network server device has a display, function keys, alarm output indicators, a disk driver to receive and store clients'"'"' data, and communication devices to communicate to its clients, such as mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), personal computer, and notebook computer. A body wearable personal network device also contains software modules; such as a protocol handler to handle Internet based protocols XML/FTP/HTTP/TCP/IP, diagnostic system to automatically transmit of notification messages to its clients, and various applications to provide various services for its clients. A body wearable personal network device has gate way functionality between PAN (using Bluetooth) and WLAN (using IEEE802.11b).

Claims

1. A body wearable personal network server and system comprising:

an operating management unit to provide server capability in the server-client model;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

at least one client, which includes application software to interactive with the server;

a security unit to identify and authorize each client.

2. The server and system according to claim 1, within an operating management unit is an operating system, with internet protocols, and providing application and database service capabilities.

3. The server and system according to claim 2, within an operating system, which is the software includes the lower-level software routines that directly control the hardware. The key components of the operating system contains:

a). The memory manager dynamically obtains and releases memory for applications and the operation system. An application'"'"'s procedural code also occupies space in the heap.

b). The segment loader loads programs to be executed. An application can be loaded all at once, or it can be parceled into separate segments that are loaded dynamically as needed.

c). The file manager supports file input/output;

the device manager supports device input/out.

d). Device drivers are programs that enable the various types of devices to present uniform input/output interfaces to applications. The device drivers are built in to the operating system in ROM are disk driver manages the accessing of information on disks;

power device controls the power and reports the power strength to the applications;

The PC card device driver to handle data sends and receives through the PC card, which includes a build-in antenna;

wire communication device sends and receives data through the USB wire port;

display driver exhibits the text or objects on the screen;

function key drivers receive the input from the function key touch pad.

e). The schedule manager schedules activities to be performed during the interrupts.

f). The system error handler gets control when the fatal system error occurs.

g). The operating system utilities provide a variety of useful functions including obtaining the date and the time.

4. The server and system according to claim 2, within internet protocols are IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, or serial type of physical and data link layers, IP, TCP, and HTTP, XML, and FTP protocols.

5. The server and system according to claim 2, within application and database service capabilities are an XML application and database server. Under the XML server, each client is treated as a presentation device. The XML server takes care of all the device detection and makes XML requests of the content server. The database sends up XML content that the presentation tier can reformat for each device.

6. The server and system according to claim 2, within a specific application is configured for all users is a video game. The BWPNS can be configured as the game box for multiple players.

7. The server and system according to claim 1, within one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN, and one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN. Both of these two communication units can be designed in wireless type of communication units, and can be built together in the BWPNS.

8. The server and system according to claim 1, within one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN, and one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN. Both of these two communication units can be designed in wireless type of communication units, and can be built in one PCMCIA card or one PCI card;

Blue802 technology is adopted, which combines Bluetooth and IEEE802.11b chipsets in one PCMCIA or PCI card.

9. The server and system according to claim 1, within one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN is an USB type of connection port.

10. The server and system according to claim 1, within at least one client is a mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), notebook computer, packet personal computer, or personal computer, which provides application software and communication port to communicate with server.

11. The server and system according to claim 1, within a security unit to identify and authorize each client is to assign a unique identification for each client, and to configure a security profile for each client.

12. A body wearable personal network server and system comprising:

an operating management unit to provide server capability in the server-client model;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

a data formatting unit to convert data to the proper format of data based on the client'"'"'s profile;

at least one client, which includes application software to interactive with the service;

a security unit to identify and authorize each client.

13. The driver according to claim 12, within a data formatting unit is an application routine to provide receiving and transmitting from and to text, audio, CD audio track, MIDI, movie, video, windows media, and binary format of data, also to convert text data to voice data and vice visa.

14. A body wearable personal network server device comprising:

a display configured to display at least time information;

function key button circuitry;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

a CMOS memory to retain information about the body wearable personal network server device;

at least one Random Access Memory (RAM) device;

a power supply device;

a microprocessor for controlling the display, receiving entering data through function key buttons, accessing memory devices, and handling the communication circuit.

15. The device according to claim 14, within at least one RAM device is RAM memory chips or a hard disk drive, or both.

16. The device according to claim 14, within a power supply device is a rechargeable battery.

17. The device according to claim 16, within a rechargeable battery is a programmable battery device and the battery strength can be read by program.

18. The driver according to claim 14, within one communication circuit is a wireless communication circuit.

19. The driver according to claim 14, within one communication circuit is a wireless communication circuit, and a wire communication circuit can be provided.

20. A body wearable personal network server device comprising:

a display configured to display at least time information;

function key button circuitry;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

a CMOS memory to retain information about the body wearable personal network server device;

at least one Random Access Memory (RAM) device;

a power supply device;

at least one output warning signal device to indicate the exception situation to the user;

a microprocessor for controlling the display, receiving entering data through function key buttons, accessing memory devices, and handling the communication circuit.

21. The device according to claim 20, within at least one output warning signal device to indicate the exception situation to the user is a built-in speaker to provide basic sound capabilities.

22. The device according to claim 20, within at least one output warning signal device to indicate the exception situation to the user is a vibrated device.

23. The device according to claim 20, within at least one output warning signal device to indicate the exception situation to the user is LED (Light Emitting Diode) devices, which are programmable.

24. The device according to claim 23, within the programmable LED devices, which can be changed to different colors or flash.

25. The device according to claim 20, within at least one output warning signal device to indicate the exception situation to the user is to design to add more than one output devices, which are a built-in speaker, a vibrated device, and LED devices.

26. The device according to claim 20, further comprising a memory card driver, or a CD RAM device, or a hard disk device.

27. A body wearable personal network server and system comprising:

an operating management unit to provide server capability in the server-client model;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

more than one clients are configured, which includes application software to interactive with the service;

a security unit to identify and authorize each client.

28. A body wearable personal network server and system comprising:

an operating management unit to provide server capability in the server-client model;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

more than one clients are configured, which includes application software to interactive with the service;

a security unit to identify and authorize each client;

a specific application is configured for all users.

29. A body wearable personal network server and system comprising:

an operating management unit to provide server capability in the server-client model;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

one wireless communication unit to receive and transmit data from and to the WLAN and having communication circuitry for the wireless transmission;

more than one clients are configured, which includes application software to interactive with the service;

a security unit to identify and authorize each client;

a specific application is configured for all users.

30. A body wearable personal network server and system comprising:

an operating management unit to provide server capability in the server-client model;

one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN;

at least one client, which includes application software to interactive with the server;

a security unit to identify and authorize each client.

31. The server and system according to claim 30, within one communication unit for communicating the clients in PAN. This communication unit can be a wireless type of communication unit, or a USB type of wire communication port.