AD-HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK INCLUDING WEARABLE INPUT/OUTPUT TRANSDUCERS
First Claim
1. A processor, comprising:
- a receiver to receive a first sensor reading from a first sensor and information from a remote processor;
a transmitter to transmit signals over a local ad-hoc wireless network to a first indicator and over a conventional wireless network to a remote processor; and
an intelligent agent to formulate a response to the first sensor reading and to transmit the response over the local ad-hoc wireless network or the conventional wireless network based on a characteristic of the response;
wherein at least one of the first sensor or the first indicator is to be attached to a wearable article.
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Abstract
One or more sensors gather data, one or more processors analyze the data, and one or more indicators notify a user if the data represent an event that requires a response. One or more of the sensors and/or the indicators is a wearable device for wireless communication. Optionally, other components may be vehicle-mounted or deployed on-site. The components form an ad-hoc network enabling users to keep track of each other in challenging environments where traditional communication may be impossible, unreliable, or inadvisable. The sensors, processors, and indicators may be linked and activated manually or they may be linked and activated automatically when they come within a threshold proximity or when a user does a triggering action, such as exiting a vehicle. The processors distinguish extremely urgent events requiring an immediate response from less-urgent events that can wait longer for response, routing and timing the responses accordingly.
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20 Claims
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1. A processor, comprising:
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a receiver to receive a first sensor reading from a first sensor and information from a remote processor; a transmitter to transmit signals over a local ad-hoc wireless network to a first indicator and over a conventional wireless network to a remote processor; and an intelligent agent to formulate a response to the first sensor reading and to transmit the response over the local ad-hoc wireless network or the conventional wireless network based on a characteristic of the response; wherein at least one of the first sensor or the first indicator is to be attached to a wearable article. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system, comprising:
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a first sensor; a first indicator; a remote processor; a local processor to connect to the first sensor and the first indicator through a local ad-hoc network and to connect to the remote processor through a conventional network, wherein the local processor comprises; a receiver to receive a signal; a signal recognition engine to identify the signal as a sensor reading or as a message from the remote processor; an event/response database to determine a response to the signal, an urgency of transmitting the response, and a destination and routing for the response based on the urgency; and a transmitter to transmit the response to the indicator or to the remote processor; wherein the first sensor or the first indicator is attached to a wearable article. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory machine-readable information storage medium containing code that, when executed, causes a machine to perform actions, the actions comprising:
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to analyze a received signal; if the received signal is a sensor reading, to compare the sensor reading to a database of stored sensor readings and corresponding responses and to evaluate an urgency associated with the response; upon finding a match to the sensor reading in the database, to transmit the associated response over a local network if the urgency exceeds a threshold or over a conventional network if the urgency does not exceed the threshold.
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