ARRANGEMENT FOR MANAGING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES
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Abstract
An arrangement for managing bi-directional wireless communication between a controller and a plurality of controllable-devices wherein each controllable-device is able to provide operable function specific instructions to the controller as to how it would like to be operated by the controller and wherein a proximity mechanism means provides bidirectional communications over a distance of a few centimetres between the controller and the or each controllable-device.
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73 Claims
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1-54. -54. (canceled)
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55. An arrangement for managing communication between one or more controller devices or one or more controllable devices, the arrangement including;
- a controllable device having a processor, memory, a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device or another controllable device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the controllable device having access to one or more resource description files one of those resource description files including data representative of least a portion of the resources to control the controllable device; and
a controller device having a processor, memory, proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controllable device or another controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, and the controller device having no access to the one or more resource description files of the controllable device, where the devices are brought together such that at least one of the respective proximity sensors confirms the proximity of another device after which the respective devices communicate wirelessly using the near field communications mechanism to exchange data to facilitate the communication of one or more resource description files of the controllable device to the memory of the controller device using one or more of the communication mechanisms for processing the resource description file by the processor of the controller device to allow control of the controllable device by the controller device - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73)
- a controllable device having a processor, memory, a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device or another controllable device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the controllable device having access to one or more resource description files one of those resource description files including data representative of least a portion of the resources to control the controllable device; and
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64. An arrangement for managing communication between a proxy device and one or more controller devices, each controller device requiring access to one or more resource description files of one or more controllable devices and the authority to control the one or more controllable devices, the arrangement including;
- a proxy device having a processor, memory, a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the proxy device having access to one or more resource description files with one of those resource description files including data representative of least a portion of the resources to control a respective controllable device; and
the controller device having a processor, memory, proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a proxy device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, and the controller device having no access to the one or more resource description files of one or more controllable devices, where the proxy device and the controller device are brought together such that at least one of the respective proximity sensors confirms the proximity of the other device after which the respective devices communicate wirelessly using the near field communications mechanism to exchange data to facilitate the communication of one or more resource description files of one or more controllable devices to the memory of the controller device using one or more of the communication mechanisms for processing the resource description file by the processor of the controller device to allow control of the one or more respective controllable devices by the controller device. - View Dependent Claims (65)
- a proxy device having a processor, memory, a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the proxy device having access to one or more resource description files with one of those resource description files including data representative of least a portion of the resources to control a respective controllable device; and
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66. An arrangement for managing communication between a controller device and other controller devices, the other controller device requiring access to one or more resource description files of one or more controllable devices and the authority to control the one or more controllable devices, the arrangement including;
- the controller device having a processor, memory, a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the controller device having in memory a controller device identity, a controller device encryption/decryption key, and the identity of one or more controllable devices; and
the other controller device having a processor, memory, proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of the controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, and the other controller device having no access to the one or more resource description files of one or more controllable devices, where the controller device and the other controller device are brought together such that at least one of the respective proximity sensors confirms the proximity of the other device after which the respective devices communicate wirelessly using the near field communications mechanism to exchange data representative of at least the controller device identity, the controller device encryption/decryption key, and the identity of one or more controllable devices;
where the processor of the other controller device uses a communication mechanism to establish communication with a controllable device using a received respective controllable device identity, receives a message from the respective controllable device, encrypts the received message with the received encryption key of the controller device and communicates the encrypted message back to the respective controllable device to establish trust between the other controller device and the respective controllable device to facilitate the communication of one or more resource description files of one or more controllable devices to the memory of the other controller device using one or more of the communication mechanisms for processing the one or more resource description files by the processor of the other controller device to allow control of the respective controllable device by the other controller device.
- the controller device having a processor, memory, a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the controller device having in memory a controller device identity, a controller device encryption/decryption key, and the identity of one or more controllable devices; and
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