WEARABLE COIN-SIZED SENSORY DEVICES, AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS, PROVIDING IMMEDIATE WIRELESS NOTIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES ON SEPARATE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
First Claim
1. A notification device for a user of one or more separate electronic devices, such notification device providing an immediate silent or near-silent tactile indication to the user of activities associated with the separate electronic devices, such notification device comprising:
- a coin-sized or smaller housing, physically unconnected to the separate electronic devices, such that the notification device can be worn, or affixed to an item, in contact or near-contact with the user'"'"'s skin; and
such housing containing inside a means for wirelessly receiving signals from the separate electronic devices of activities associated therewith, a means for providing a silent or near-silent tactile indication to the user of such signals, and a means for powering such tactile indication.
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Abstract
Wearable coin-sized sensory devices, and related systems and methods, providing immediate wireless notification of activities occurring on separate electronic devices, such that the invention can be worn in contact or near contact with the user'"'"'s skin, which does not require the user to replace, reconfigure or retrofit items already possessed by the user and worn on the body, and which does not disturb others in the vicinity of the user. When one of the designated separate electronic devices not actually held in the user'"'"'s hand or face-to-face with the user, e.g., emits a wireless signal as a result of an occurrence on such separate electronic device, the invention senses such wireless signal and immediately produces a tactile indication, silent or near-silent, to the user. The invention is merely coin-sized and thus can be versatility attached or affixed to items in contact or near contact with the user'"'"'s body in multiple ways.
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1. A notification device for a user of one or more separate electronic devices, such notification device providing an immediate silent or near-silent tactile indication to the user of activities associated with the separate electronic devices, such notification device comprising:
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a coin-sized or smaller housing, physically unconnected to the separate electronic devices, such that the notification device can be worn, or affixed to an item, in contact or near-contact with the user'"'"'s skin; and such housing containing inside a means for wirelessly receiving signals from the separate electronic devices of activities associated therewith, a means for providing a silent or near-silent tactile indication to the user of such signals, and a means for powering such tactile indication. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A notification system comprising:
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one or more separate electronic devices having the ability to transmit wireless signals of activities associated with such devices; and an immediate notification device providing a silent or near-silent tactile indication to the user of activities associated with the separate electronic devices, wherein the notification device is comprised of a coin-sized or smaller housing, physically unconnected to the separate electronic devices, such that the notification device can be worn, or affixed to an item, in contact or near-contact with the user'"'"'s skin, and wherein such housing contains inside a means for wirelessly receiving signals from the separate electronic devices of activities associated therewith, a means for providing a silent or near-silent tactile indication to the user of such signals, and a means for powering such tactile indication. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of immediately notifying a user of one or more separate electronic devices of activities associated with such devices, the method comprising the steps of
providing a coin-sized or smaller notification device, that can be worn or affixed to an item in contact or near-contact with the skin of a user of one or more separate electronic devices which generate wireless signals when various activities on such separate electronic devices occur; -
providing in the notification device a receiver of wireless signals generated by the separate electronic devices; providing in the notification device a silent or near-silent tactile indicator such wireless signals have been received by such notification device. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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