INTERACTIONS AMONG MOBILE DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

• US 20150050891A1
• Filed: 11/03/2014
• Published: 02/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telsync Technologies LLC (Jeffrey M. Gross)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: CHIANG, Mung
• Granted Patent: US 9,326,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• 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 56/0045 compensating for timing error by altering transmission time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

One embodiment of the disclosure sets for a method for synchronizing multiple mobile devices in a wireless network, which includes the steps of calculating a time interval for a first mobile device to respond to a request, receiving timing information of the first mobile device, determining a first offset associated with the first mobile device based on the time interval and the timing information, receiving a first data stream including the timing information of the first mobile device, and inserting a first dataset into the first data stream based on the first offset before transmitting the first data stream.

Claims

1-31. -31. (canceled)

32. A method to monitor availability of a first mobile device, comprising:

receiving a first identification information associated with the first mobile device from a second mobile device;

extracting a second identification information from the first mobile device when the first mobile device gains access to network resources; and

comparing the first identification information with the second identification information to determine the availability of the first mobile device.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the first identification information belongs to a list stored in the second mobile device.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein the first mobile device gains access to the network resources by registering with a base station.

35. The method of claim 32, further comprising notifying the second mobile device of the availability of the first mobile device prior to the second mobile device requesting to establish a communication session involving the first mobile device.

47. The method of claim 32, further comprising:

receiving a first data from the second mobile device, wherein the first data is for exchange with the first mobile device; and

receiving a signal indicating that the first mobile device is out of a wireless range in response to the receiving the signal, delaying exchange of the first data.

48. The method of claim 47, further comprising:

determining that the first mobile device is within the wireless range; and

in response to the determination that the first mobile device within the wireless range, sending the first data to the first mobile device.

49. The method of claim 47, further comprising:

sending a delay indicator to the second mobile device, wherein the delay indicator is effective to indicate that exchange of the first data was delayed.

50. The method of claim 48, further comprising:

receiving a receipt indicator from the first mobile device, wherein the receipt indicator is effective to indicate that the first data was received by the first mobile device.

36. A computer-readable medium containing a sequence of instructions for monitoring availability of a first mobile device, which in response to execution by a computing device, causes the computing device to:

receive a first identification information associated with the first mobile device from a second mobile device;

extract a second identification information from the first mobile device when the first mobile device gains access to network resources; and

compare the first identification information with the second identification information to determine the availability of the first mobile device.

37. The computer-readable medium of claim 36, further contains a sequence of instructions, which in response to execution by the computing device, causes the computing device to notify the second mobile device of the availability of the first mobile device prior to the second mobile device requesting to establish a communication session involving the first mobile device.

38. A computing device configured to monitoring availability of a first mobile device to exchange data, the computing device comprises:

a memory unit; and

a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to

receive a first identification information associated with the first mobile device from a second mobile device,

extract a second identification information from the first mobile device when the first mobile device gains access to network resources; and

compare the first identification information with the second identification information to determine the availability of the first mobile device.

39. The computing device of claim 38, wherein the processing unit is further configured to notify the second mobile device of the availability of the first mobile device prior to the second mobile device requesting to establish a communication session involving the first mobile device.

40-46. -46. (canceled)