System and Method for Providing Access to a Proximate Accessory Device for a Mobile Device
First Claim
1. A system for providing access to accessory devices, the system comprising:
- a network having wireless access;
one or more accessory devices, each device being communicatively coupled to the network and having a physical device identifier; and
an accessory access service communicatively coupled to the network, the service being configured to;
obtain a network address corresponding to the physical device identifier for each of the accessory devices;
receive a request that includes a physical device identifier value and a task; and
forward a received request to the network address corresponding to a physical device identifier included in the received request.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are shown for providing access to proximate accessory devices for a mobile client. The mobile client directly physically scans a physical device identifier of a proximate accessory device to obtain a device identifier value. In one approach, a message is transmitted to an accessory access service that includes the scanned device identifier value and a task to be performed by the proximate accessory device and the service sends the task to the proximate accessory device. In another approach, a message that includes the scanned device identifier value is sent to an accessory access service, which obtains a network address corresponding to the scanned device identifier value and returns the network address to the mobile client, and the mobile client sends a task to the proximate accessory identifier value.
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21 Claims
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1. A system for providing access to accessory devices, the system comprising:
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a network having wireless access; one or more accessory devices, each device being communicatively coupled to the network and having a physical device identifier; and an accessory access service communicatively coupled to the network, the service being configured to; obtain a network address corresponding to the physical device identifier for each of the accessory devices; receive a request that includes a physical device identifier value and a task; and forward a received request to the network address corresponding to a physical device identifier included in the received request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system for providing access to accessory devices, the system comprising:
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a network; one or more accessory devices, each device being communicatively coupled to the network and having a physical device identifier; and an accessory access service communicatively coupled to the network, the service being configured to; receive a request that includes a physical device identifier value; obtain a network address corresponding to the received physical device identifier value; and transmit a reply to the request that includes the network address corresponding to the received physical device identifier value. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A mobile client configured to connect to a network that includes accessory devices each having physical device identifiers, the mobile client being further configured to:
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directly physically scan the physical device identifier of a proximate accessory device to obtain a device identifier value; and transmit a message to a predetermined accessory access service, where the message includes the scanned device identifier value and a task to be performed by the proximate accessory device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A mobile client configured to connect to a network that includes accessory devices each having physical device identifiers, the mobile client being further configured to:
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directly physically scan the physical device identifier of a proximate accessory device to obtain a device identifier value; transmit a message that includes the scanned device identifier value to a predetermined accessory access service requesting a network address corresponding to the device identifier value; receiving a message that includes the network address corresponding to the device identifier value; and sending a task to the proximate accessory device using the network address corresponding to the device identifier value. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A mobile client configured to connect to a network that includes accessory devices each having physical device identifiers, the mobile client being further configured to:
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directly physically scan the physical device identifier of a proximate accessory device to obtain a device identifier value; extract a network address corresponding to the proximate accessory device from the scanned device identifier value; and send a task to the proximate accessory device using the network address extracted from the device identifier value. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for providing a mobile device with access to accessory devices on a publicly available network, the method comprising the steps:
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providing each of one or more accessory devices communicatively coupled to the network with a physical device identifier; directly scanning the physical device identifier of a proximate accessory device using the mobile device; transmitting a message from the mobile device to an accessory access service for the network, where the message includes the scanned physical device identifier value and a task to be performed by the proximate accessory device; receiving the message from the mobile device in an accessory access service and, responsive thereto perform the following; obtain a network address corresponding to the received physical device identifier value, and forward the received request to the network address corresponding to the received physical device identifier value included in the received request. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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