MOBILE DEVICE SPEAKER CONTROL

• US 20140242913A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JB IP Acquisitions LLC
• Original Assignee: AliphCom, Inc. (AliphCom Corp.)
• Inventors: Pang, Hawk Yin
• Application Number:
  US14/144,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20140242913A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Techniques for mobile device speaker control are described, including monitoring one or more devices coupled to a data network, receiving one or more data packets from each of the one or more devices, filtering the one or more data packets by evaluating a received signal strength of each of the one or more packets, the one or more packets being ordered in a priority based on a value, and comparing the received signal strength of each of the one or more packets to a threshold to determine whether the one or more devices are to perform an action.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

monitoring one or more devices in data communication over a data network;

receiving one or more data packets from each of the one or more devices;

filtering the one or more data packets based on a received signal strength of the one or more packets, the one or more packets being ordered in a priority based on a value; and

comparing the received signal strength of each of the one or more packets to a threshold to determine whether the one or more devices are to perform an action.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the one or more devices using an address.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the one or more devices using a MAC address.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering the one or more data packets comprises prioritizing the one or more devices based on the received signal strength of each of the one or more devices.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more devices are prioritized in order of highest received signal strength to lowest received signal strength for each of the one or more devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the action is performed if the received signal strength is greater than the threshold.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the action is not performed is the received signal strength is greater than the threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the action is performed using a speaker box.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more devices is a mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile device is a smart phone.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile device is a computing device.

12. A system, comprising:

a memory configured to store one or more data packets received from one or more devices configured to transmit data over a data network; and

a processor configured to monitor the one or more devices, to receive the one or more data packets from each of the one or more devices, to filter the one or more data packets by evaluating a received signal strength of each of the one or more packets, the one or more packets being ordered in a priority based on a value, and to compare the received signal strength of each of the one or more packets to a threshold to determine whether the one or more devices are to perform an action.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the data network is a wireless data network.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the data network is a Wi-Fi network.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one of the one or more devices is a mobile device.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the action comprises taking control of a speaker box.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the action comprises streaming media from a networked resource to a speaker box, the speaker box being configured to render audible the data.

18. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

monitoring one or more devices in data communication over a wireless network;

receiving one or more data packets from each of the one or more devices;

filtering the one or more data packets by evaluating a received signal strength of each of the one or more packets, the one or more packets being ordered in a priority based on a value; and

comparing the received signal strength of each of the one or more packets to a threshold to determine whether the one or more devices are to perform an action.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving the one or more data packets from a wearable computing device.