System for locally synchronizing a group of mobile devices

• US 20050195793A1
• Filed: 03/04/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Inventors: Howard, James S., Damia, Lynn M. Van, Dalton, Bryan L., Heaton, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US11/072,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20050195793A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/350
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0015 one node acting as a reference for the others

Abstract

A system locally synchronizes a plurality of mobile mobile devices. The system includes a computer device in communication with a network, a first mobile device in communication with the network, and a second mobile device in communication with the network. The first and second mobile devices and the computer device have an installed communication application eliminating predetermined communication steps between the first mobile device and the computer device through the network and between the second mobile device and the computer device through the network.

Claims

1. A system for locally synchronizing a plurality of mobile devices, said system comprising:

a computer device in communication with a network;

a first mobile device in communication with the network; and

a second mobile device in communication with the network,

said first and second mobile devices and said computer device having an installed communication application eliminating predetermined communication steps between said first mobile device and said computer device through the network and between said second mobile device and said computer device through the network.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first mobile device transmits a “

Ready”

communication to said computer device.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said computer device requests data from said first mobile device.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said computer device synchronizes software applications of said first mobile device and said second mobile device.

5. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said computer device is a third mobile device designated a group master for synchronizing said first mobile device with said second mobile device.

6. A computer program product for locally synchronizing a plurality of mobile devices, said computer program product comprising:

a first instruction for communicating between a first mobile device and a network;

a second instruction for communicating between a second mobile device and the network;

a third instruction for communicating between a computer device and the network;

a fourth instruction for installing a communication application on the first mobile device;

a fifth instruction for installing the communication application on the second mobile device;

a sixth instruction for eliminating predetermined communication steps between the first mobile device and the computer device, the function of the predetermined communication steps being performed by the communication application on the first mobile device; and

a seventh instruction for eliminating predetermined communication steps between the second mobile device and the computer device, the function of the predetermined communication steps being performed by the communication application on the second mobile device.

7. The computer program product as set forth in claim 6 further including an eighth instruction for transmitting a “

Ready”

communication from the first mobile device to the computer device.

8. The computer program product as set forth in claim 6 further including an eighth instruction for requesting data from the first mobile device by the computer device.

9. The computer program product as set forth in claim 6 wherein the computer device is a third mobile device.