SEAMLESS DATA COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE

• US 20100173585A1
• Filed: 01/08/2009
• Published: 07/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hughes, Richard Lloyd, Button, Candace J., Gruen, Robert Warren
• Application Number:
  US12/350,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20100173585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.300
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A method of providing a seamless data communication experience across a presence aware device and an additional presence aware device is disclosed. A data communication experience may be transferred from a presence aware device to an additional presence aware device when a user selects to switch to an additional presence aware device or leaves the presence of the presence aware device.

Claims

10-1. The method of claim 1, wherein the presence aware device and additional presence aware device comprise a processor for executing computer executable code and an input/output circuit.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising communicating the beacon signal through wireless communication.

15. A computing device comprising a processor physically configured in accordance with computer executable instructions, a memory for storing the computer executable instructions and an input output circuit, the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for providing a seamless data communication experience across a presence aware device and an additional presence aware device, the computer instructions comprising instructions for:

determining if a beacon signal has been received;

determining if the beacon signal is recognized;

if the beacon signal is recognized, establishing communication between the presence aware device and the additional presence aware device;

reviewing on the additional presence aware device the beacon signal for a status indication of the data communication experience from the presence aware device wherein the data communication experience may be selected;

if a status indication is present, storing the status indication of the data communication experience on the additional presence aware device;

if the beacon signal indicates that the data communication experience has been selected to end on the presence aware device;

ending the data communication experience on the presence aware device if the status indication is successfully communicated;

if additional presence aware device is data communication experience capable;

executing the data communication experience on the additional presence aware device using the status indication;

if the additional presence aware device is not data communication experience capable;

repeating the method, substituting the additional presence aware device for the presence aware device.

16. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising on the additional presence aware device, periodically searching for the beacon signal.

17. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising on the additional presence aware device, periodically communicating the beacon signal.

18. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the beacon signal further comprises a status indication and wherein the status indication further comprises at least one selected from a group comprising:

progress data for the data communication experience;

content data for the data communication experience;

or

environment data for the data communication experience.

19. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising communicating the beacon signal through wireless communication.

20. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the data communication experience is one selected from a group comprising:

an audio experience;

a video experience;

a game experience;

an internet experience;

an audio/visual experience; and

a download experience.