Method of transferring data between two PHS handsets in a short distance

• US 20060052058A1
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Fan, Xiao-Long, Lai, Cheng-Shing, Zhang, Jun-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/139,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20060052058A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a method of transferring data between two PHS handsets in a short distance, which comprises the steps of registering two PHS handsets in a group, assigning a channel for data communication therebetween, configuring two PHS handsets as a sender and a recipient in the group, establishing a connection between the PHS handsets, causing the sender to send packets as divided data to the recipient, performing a data transfer mechanism to send the packets to the recipient, assembling the actually received packets, inspecting and storing the data in a reference data storage by the recipient, for sharing data therebetween.

Claims

1. A method of transferring data between two Personal Handyphone System (PHS) handsets in a short distance by registering two PHS handsets in a group and assigning a wireless channel as means for data communication therebetween, which comprises the following steps for performing data communication:

configuring a first PHS handset as a sender and a second PHS handset as a recipient in the group and establishing a connection between the first and second PHS handsets by performing a calling mode in the first and second PHS handsets respectively;

causing the sender to send data to the recipient after the sender divides data into a plurality of packets of predetermined size complying with communication requirements of the PHS handsets;

sending the packets from the sender to the recipient over the wireless channel by performing a data transfer mechanism;

assembling the received packets into the original data, inspecting the data and then storing the data in a reference data storage by the recipient, thereby sharing data between two PHS handsets and wirelessly transferring data therebetween in a short distance.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the data transfer mechanism, the sender will wait for an ACK from the recipient each time after the sender sends a packet and until the packet is inspected by the recipient, and the sender will either send a next packet immediately after receiving an ACK from the recipient indicating a correct transmission or wait to perform other operations.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the sender will send the previously sent packet again after receiving an ACK indicating an incorrect transmission, and the attempted data transmission will end after predetermined time of ACKs indicating an incorrect transmission happened, and then a message informing to check machine and verify process steps is prompted on a display of the sender prior to sending data again.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the sender waits after sending a packet, and will send the previously sent packet again after a time-out control has elapsed with no ACK being received from the recipient.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the attempted data transmission will end after predetermined time of packet retransmission happened without receiving ACK thereafter, and a message informing to check machine and verify process steps is prompted on a display of the sender prior to sending data again.