COOPERATIVE FEDERATION OF DIGITAL DEVICES VIA PROXEMICS AND DEVICE MICRO-MOBILITY
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Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards co-located collaboration/data sharing that is based upon detecting the proxemics of people and/or the proxemics of devices. A federation of devices is established based upon proxemics, such as when the users have entered into a formation based upon distance between them and orientation. User devices may share content with other devices in the federation based upon micro-mobility actions performed on the devices, e.g., tilting and/or otherwise interacting with a sending device.
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40 Claims
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21. A system comprising a server configured to process image data to determine a formation based upon proxemics of users having digital devices, the server further configured to:
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maintain federation data corresponding to; an identity of the digital devices in the formation; a distance between users associated with the digital devices; and a relative body orientation of the users; and communicate the federation data to the digital devices in the formation to establish a federation between two or more digital devices in the formation based on the federation data, the federation between the digital devices in the formation enabling the two or more digital devices in the formation to communicate content with one another based upon one or more micro-mobility actions detected by at least one of the two or more digital devices in the formation. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method comprising;
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determining proxemics among a plurality of devices, the plurality of digital devices comprising one or more of the following;
at least two users having digital devices, at least one user and at least two digital devices, and at least two digital devices;maintaining federation data indicative of a distance between users associated with the plurality of digital devices and a relative body orientation of the users; establishing a federation between a set of the plurality of digital devices based upon the federation data, the federation enabling the set of the plurality of digital devices to communicate data between one another using micro-mobility actions, the micro-mobility actions comprising one or more of the following;
device tilting, touch gesture, pen gesture, and multi-touch gesture. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions, which when executed on at least one processor perform operations comprising:
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receiving content at a recipient device from a sending device, the sending device and the recipient device being participants in a federation established by relative body orientations between a user of the sending device and a user of the recipient device; and rendering the content on the recipient device in partial, increasing amounts over time until the content is fully rendered, the rendering in partial, increasing amounts occurring from one direction based upon a location of the sending device relative to the recipient device to have the content appear to have come from a direction of the sending device relative to the recipient device. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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