Wireless call hitchhiker

• US 20040203341A1
• Filed: 06/19/2002
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Armbruster, Peter J., Shaughnessy, Mark L., Schaefer, Bradley R.
• Application Number:
  US10/174,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20040203341A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/11.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2606 Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/26 Cell enhancers or enhancement, e.g. for tunnels, building shadow

Abstract

A hitchhiker device (20) has a wireless communication capability. The hitchhiker device is located in a non-network area (10) and requires the transmission of a wireless message. The hitchhiker device requests via an RF link (25) a donor device (30). The hitchhiker device transmits the message to the donor device. The donor device stores the wireless message. Subsequently, the donor is relocated to a wireless area and transmits the stored message via a network link (35).

Claims

1. A wireless communication arrangement for wireless service in a non-network area comprising:

a hitchhiker device including a communicator, the hitchhiker device located in the non-network area;

a donor device including a communicator, the donor device receiving a communication from the hitchhiker device;

the donor device is moved to a network area; and

in the network area, the donor device transmitting the communication to a network.

2. A wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hitchhiker device includes a network device coupled to the communicator, the communicator for transmitting the communication.

3. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the donor device includes a network device for transmitting the communication to the network.

4. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 3, wherein the donor device stores the communication.

5. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the donor device is in a proximity of the network, the network device of the donor device transmits the stored communication to the network.

6. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the donor device moves from the non-network area to the network area and vice versa.

7. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communicator of the hitchhiker device is coupled to the communicator of the donor device via an RF link.

8. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the RF link includes a Bluetooth link.

9. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the RF link includes an infrared link.

10. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the RF link includes a wireless local area network link.

11. The wireless communication arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the network includes a cellular network;

the communicator of the donor device and of the hitchhiker device includes a non-cellular device; and

the network area includes a cellular network area.

12. A method for wireless communications in a non-network area comprising the steps of:

requesting by a hitchhiker device a donor device;

sending a wireless message from the hitchhiker device to the donor device;

moving the donor device from the non-network area to a network area; and

transmitting the wireless message by the donor device to a network.

13. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 12, wherein there is further included a step of responding by the donor device to the request of the hitchhiker device.

14. The wireless r communication method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the step of sending the wireless message is performed subsequent to the step of responding by the donor device.

15. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 12, wherein there is further included a step of storing by the donor device by the wireless message.

16. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the step of storing is performed after the step of sending and prior to the step of moving.

17. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 12, wherein:

the network includes a cellular network;

the wireless message includes a cellular message;

the network area includes a cellular network area; and

the donor device includes a cellular device.

18. A wireless communication method for sending a message from a network area to a non-network area comprising the steps of:

requesting by a donor device in the network area the message for a hitchhiker device;

moving the donor device from the network area to the non-network area; and

sending the message from the donor device to the hitchhiker device located in the non-network area.

19. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 18, wherein there if further included a step of storing by the donor device the message.

20. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 19, wherein the step of storing the message is performed after the step of requesting and prior to the step of moving.

21. The wireless communication method as claimed in claim 18, wherein:

the network area includes a cellular network area;

the message includes a cellular message; and

the donor device includes a cellular device.