WIRELESS NETWORK SHARING DEVICE

• US 20140155120A1
• Filed: 10/20/2011
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yota Devices IPR Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Yota Devices IPR Ltd.
• Inventors: Karmanenko, Sergey, Gorilovsky, Dmitry Alekseevich, Polyakh, Alim
• Application Number:
  US13/880,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20140155120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/035 Improving the acoustic characteristics by means of constructional features of the housing, e.g. ribs, walls, resonating chambers or cavities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

The field of the invention relates to mobile devices operable to provide sharing of a wireless network. There is provided a mobile device operable to provide instant and automatic sharing of a wireless network in response to a single action by a user, the single action comprising a physical contact gesture with the mobile device by the user, or a voice activation command by the user.

Claims

1. Mobile device operable to

connect to the internet via a mobile phone network;

in response to a single action by a user, provide instant and automatic sharing of a wireless network in response to a single action by a user, wherein at least one second device is wirelessly connectable to the mobile device via the shared wireless network;

enable the at least one second device to access the internet via the shared wireless network

wherein, the single action comprising comprises at least one of;

a physical contact gesture with the mobile device by the user; and

a voice activation command by the user.

6. Mobile device of claim 1, adapted to enable the at least one second device to access files on the mobile device via the shared wireless network.

7. Mobile device of claim 1 including a hard switch, a software switch, a hidden mechanical button, wherein the single action by the user comprises pressing the hard switch, the software switch or the hidden mechanical button of the mobile device.

10. Mobile device of claim 1 including a squeeze control, wherein the single action by the user comprises activating a squeeze control of the mobile device.

11. Mobile device of claim 1 including capacitor sensor strips operable to detect when the user has picked up the device, wherein the single action by the user comprises picking up the mobile device.

16. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a touch screen and a further bistable screen.

17. Mobile device of claim 16, wherein the physical contact gesture is received over the bistable screen.

18. Mobile device of claim 17, wherein the touch screen at least partially overlaps the bistable screen and the physical contact gesture if further received over the touch screen.

19. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is operable to define a limited set of users who may connect to the device to enable instant and automatic sharing of a wireless network with the limited set of users.

20. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is operable to provide a wireless connection to a personal computer, to enable that computer to connect to the internet.

21. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is operable to provide a wireless connection to two personal computers, to enable file sharing or resource sharing between those two personal computers.

22. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is operable to provide for file synchronization for files that are shared using automatic sharing of a wireless network via the mobile device.

30. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the instant and automatic sharing of the wireless network is performed when the device is already turned on and connected to a mobile phone network.

31. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the device is operable to connect to a wireless dongle, the mobile device further operable to view a file structure of files stored on the wireless dongle.

32. Mobile device of claim 31, wherein the device is operable to:

view the file structure of files stored on the wireless dongle in a web browser running on the mobile device; and

print a file on the dongle at a printer in connection with the dongle at a printer in connection with the dongle or in connection with the mobile device.

35. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the device is further operable to

connect to a wireless dongle;

and

stream audio, video or image files to the wireless dongle in response to a request from the wireless dongle to the mobile device to access a streaming source via the internet.

39. Mobile device of claim 1 further operable to disable the sharing of the wireless network in response to a further single action by the user, the further single action comprising at least one of a physical contact gesture with the mobile device by the user, and a voice activation command by the user.

45. Mobile device of claim 1, wherein the shared wireless network is a Wi-Fi network.

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