Wireless communication system and method

• US 20060094426A1
• Filed: 10/31/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christopher D. Wood, Ralph W. Donaho
• Original Assignee: Christopher D. Wood, Ralph W. Donaho
• Inventors: Wood, Christopher D., Donaho, Ralph W.
• Application Number:
  US11/261,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20060094426A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/434
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/246 Connectivity information discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless communication system and method that can operate without relying on fixed infrastructure, such as fixed base stations and mobile terminal switching offices (MTSOs), of prior art cellular communication systems. In one embodiment of the invention, a SOWC protocol is used based on de novo creation of communication pathways (cps) to transfer messages between mobile terminals (MTs). In another embodiment, nearest neighbor methodology (NNM) is used to transfer messages between MTs. In a further embodiment, MTs comprise memory loaded with SOWC and/or NNM communication algorithms. In a further embodiment, SOCC and/or NNM enabled MTs are loaded with CDMA and/or GSM to enable MTs so equipped to operate independently of fixed infrastructure or in cooperation with fixed infrastructure such as fixed base stations.

Claims

1. In a wireless radio network system comprising a plurality of mobile terminals, a method for facilitating communication between said mobile terminals, comprising the steps of:

scanning for wireless broadcasts, wherein said scanning is performed by said mobile terminals to identify neighboring mobile terminals within transceiver range of each other;

establishing a plurality of nearest neighbor lists, wherein one or more of said mobile terminals establish their own nearest neighbor list;

compiling wireless possible communication pathways based on said nearest neighbor lists; and

sending wireless messages via said communication pathways.

2. In a wireless radio network system comprising a plurality of mobile terminals, a method for facilitating communication between said mobile terminals, comprising the steps of:

broadcasting at least one wireless message, said at least one wireless message containing information identifying an originating mobile terminal that originated said at least one wireless message and the mobile terminal which is a target of said wireless message; and

retransmitting said wireless message between said mobile terminals until said at least one wireless message is received by said target mobile terminal.

3. A mobile terminal capable of wireless communication, said mobile terminal comprising:

a transceiver;

a power source;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein said memory includes code to perform wireless communication by means of the SOCC protocol.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, further comprising an information generating system 140.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, further comprising an information generating system 140, wherein the information generating system 140 is a GPS receiver 200.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, further comprising an information generating system 140, wherein the information generating system 140 is a GPS receiver 200 in combination with a bio-monitor 187.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, further comprising an information generating system, wherein the information generating system is a GPS receiver in combination with a bio-monitor, wherein the bio-monitor is a pulse oximeter.

8. A mobile terminal capable of wireless communication, said mobile terminal comprising:

a transceiver;

a power source;

a processor;

a memory, wherein said memory includes code to perform wireless communication by means of the NNM protocol.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, further comprising an information generating system 140.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, further comprising an information generating system 140, wherein the information generating system 140 is a GPS receiver 200.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, further comprising an information generating system 140, wherein the information generating system 140 is a GPS receiver 200 in combination with a bio-monitor 187.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, further comprising an information generating system, wherein the information generating system is a GPS receiver in combination with a bio-monitor, wherein the bio-monitor is a pulse oximeter.