A HYBRID WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
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Abstract
A system and a method for selecting wireless communication mode between a mobile device and a local node, where the selection is between RF communication technology and acoustic communication technology, the selection including determining the location of the mobile device with respect to the local node, and selecting the communication mode according to characterization of the location, where the location is characterized according to history of quality of acoustic communication in or around the location.
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28. A method for selecting wireless communication mode between a mobile device and a local node, wherein said selection is between RF communication technology and acoustic communication technology, the method comprising:
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measuring quality of acoustic communication; and switching to RF communication if said quality of acoustic communication is below a predefined threshold; wherein said quality of acoustic communication is determined according to measurement of at least one of;
signal level, noise level, SNR, BER, QoS, latency, jitter, and frame loss. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A communication system comprising:
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an RF communication sub-system communicatively coupling a mobile device and a local node; an acoustic communication sub-system communicatively coupling said mobile device and said local node; and a communication quality assessment sub-system operative to determine quality of acoustic communication according to measurement of at least one of;
signal level, noise level, SNR, BER, QoS, latency, jitter, and frame loss.a communication mode selection sub-system configured to switch to RF communication sub-system when said quality of acoustic communication is below a predefined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
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measuring quality of acoustic communication; and switching to RF communication if said quality of acoustic communication is below a predefined threshold; wherein said quality of acoustic communication is determined according to measurement of at least one of;
signal level, noise level, SNR, BER, QoS, latency, jitter, and frame loss. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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