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Method and apparatus for a wireless tether system

  • US 7,312,711 B2
  • Filed: 01/20/2006
  • Issued: 12/25/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of wirelessly tethering one or more wireless devices to one another, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a first transceiver, a wireless signal indicative of a first distance between the first transceiver and a transmitting device transmitting the wireless signal;

    determining if the distance from the transmitting device and the first transceiver exceeds at least one of a plurality of inner threshold distances or an outer threshold distance; and

    if the first distance has exceeded at least one of the inner threshold distances or the outer threshold distance, then providing predetermined instructions to a user of the first transceiver to move in a direction that decreases the first distance, wherein the predetermined instructions vary in urgency level with respect to the magnitude of the first distance.

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