Automatic exchange of information in an ad-hoc computing environment

• US 20050198035A1
• Filed: 03/05/2004
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Pering, Trevor A., Want, Roy, Light, John, Sundararajan, Muralidharan
• Granted Patent: US 7,707,150 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

Automatic exchange of information in an ad-hoc computing environment is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, a collection agent module facilitates a search for a first device to connect to via a wireless network. The collection agent queries for and receives a first document from the first device based on metadata associated with the first document and the collection agent automatically forwards the received first document to a second device connected to the wireless network upon receiving the first document from the first device. The collection agent also automatically sends a second document to the first device upon the first device connecting to the wireless network.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a collection agent module to facilitate a search for a first device to connect to via a wireless network, the collection agent module to query and wirelessly receive from the first device a first user document based on metadata associated with the first user document automatically without human intervention.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the collection agent module to send a second user document to the first device automatically upon the first device connecting to the wireless network, the second user document being associated with the metadata.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the metadata of the second user document includes a policy rule to restrict control of the second user document by the first device.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the metadata of the first user document includes a policy rule to restrict control of the first user document by the apparatus.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the metadata of the first user document includes a policy rule to restrict control of the first user document by a second device.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first user document is a slide-show presentation document.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the metadata includes a conference identifier.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first device is a personal server device.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first device is a mobile phone.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the collection agent module to automatically wirelessly forward the first user document to a second device upon receiving the first user document from the first device without human intervention.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the second device is a personal server device.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the second device is a user interface display monitor.

13. A computerized method comprising:

querying for a first user document stored on a first device upon receiving an indication the first device has connected to a wireless network; and

receiving the first user document without human intervention.

14. The computerized method of claim 13, wherein the first user document includes metadata associated with the first user document, the querying being based upon the metadata.

15. The computerized method of claim 13 further comprising:

sending an activity profile to the first device, the activity profile to include an identifier associated with the first user document.

16. The computerized method of claim 13 further comprising:

sending a second user document to the first device automatically upon receiving the indication the first device has connected to the wireless network.

17. The computerized method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving policy rules associated with the first user document; and

processing the first user document based on the received policy rules.

18. The computerized method of claim 13, wherein the querying includes requesting an inventory list from the first device.

19. The computerized method of claim 18, further comprising searching the inventory list for a document of interest based on metadata associated with the first user document.

20. The computerized method of claim 13 further comprising:

sending automatically the first user document to a second device without human intervention.

21. A machine-accessible medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a machine, will cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

querying for a first user document stored on a first device upon receiving an indication the first device has connected to a wireless network; and

receiving the first user document without human intervention.

22. The machine-accessible medium of claim 21, wherein the first user document includes metadata associated with the first user document, the querying being based upon the metadata.

23. The machine-accessible medium of claim 21 further comprising:

sending an activity profile to the first device, the activity profile to include an identifier associated with the first user document.

24. The machine-accessible medium of claim 21 further comprising:

sending a second user document to the first device automatically upon receiving the indication the first device has connected to the wireless network.

25. The machine-accessible medium of claim 21, further comprising:

receiving policy rules associated with the first user document; and

processing the first user document based on the received policy rules.

26. The machine-accessible medium of claim 21, wherein the querying includes requesting an inventory list from the first device.

27. The machine-accessible medium of claim 26, further comprising searching the inventory list for a document of interest based on metadata associated with the first user document.

28. The machine-accessible medium of claim 21 further comprising:

sending automatically the first user document to a second device without human intervention.