System and method for processing enhanced data exchanged with an enhanced mobile station via a wireless connection

• US 8,644,854 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2009
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OL Security LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Osocad Remote LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hauser, Robert R, Wheeler, Thomas T, Peterson, Robert W
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Mahendra
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hua, Quan M
• Application Number:
  US12/629,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20110136507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,524 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/414.1, 4554562-4567, 455/466, 340988-996, 370328-338
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

The functionality of smartphone applications may be extended to a basic phone, i.e., a phone lacking a particular smartphone capability, by providing a data synthesizer in the basic phone that synthesizers required data points. The data synthesizer may communicate with nearby smartphones to collect relevant data points such as location or motion data. Data points for the basic phone may be calculated from the collected data points. When an application on the basic phone requests data, a data provider proxy may retrieve a synthesized data point from the data synthesizer. In one example, a basic phone without a GPS or similar location module may execute a mapping application by averaging location data from nearby smartphones.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

selecting collected data stored in a memory device accessible by a basic mobile phone device in response to a request from at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device, wherein the at least one application comprises a location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information application;

processing the collected data in the at least one application to cause the at least one application to generate synthesized data to describe location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information based at least in part on an evaluation of at least one property of at least a subset of the collected data;

discovering, using the basic mobile phone device, at least one enhanced mobile phone device comprising a sensor configured to generate sensor data not internally available to the basic mobile phone device based at least in part on the evaluation of the at least one property of the at least the subset of the collected data;

transmitting a data request for the sensor data from the basic mobile phone device to the at least one enhanced mobile phone device;

receiving the sensor data at the basic mobile phone device from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device in response to the data request; and

processing the sensor data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device in the at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device to enable the at least one application to generate the synthesized data to describe the location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information.

2. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one application comprises a mapping application;

and

wherein the data request comprises a request for location data.

3. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one application comprises a motion application;

and

wherein the data request comprises a request for motion data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data request comprises a request for enhanced data from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device for at least one enhanced data service that is not available on the basic mobile phone device.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

receiving the enhanced data at the basic mobile phone device from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device;

synthesizing, at the basic mobile phone device, at least one datapoint from the enhanced data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device; and

utilizing the at least one datapoint synthesized at the basic mobile phone device in the at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein synthesizing the at least one datapoint comprises averaging a plurality of received datapoints from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

discovering at least another enhanced mobile phone device in addition to the at least one enhanced mobile phone device;

receiving additional data from the at least another enhanced mobile phone device; and

processing the additional data received from the at least another enhanced mobile phone device in the at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein transmitting the data request comprises transmitting, from the basic mobile phone device to the at least one enhanced mobile phone device, the data request using a short range communication protocol.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one property comprises a temporal, source, or characteristic of a datapoint in the at least a subset of the collected data.

33. The method of claim 1, wherein collected data comprises at least one datapoint previously collected from any enhanced mobile phone device.

9. A basic mobile phone device, comprising:

a memory device configured to store instructions; and

a processing device configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory device to;

select collected data stored in the basic mobile phone device in response to a request from at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device, wherein the at least one application comprises a location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information application;

process the collected data in the at least one application to cause the at least one application to generate synthesized data to describe location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information based at least in part on an evaluation of at least one property of at least a subset of the collected data;

discover at least one enhanced mobile phone device comprising a sensor configured to generate data not internally available to the basic mobile phone device based at least in part on the evaluation of the at least one property of the at least the subset of the collected data;

request data generated using a sensor enclosed in the at least one enhanced mobile phone device;

receive the data from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device based at least in part to the request;

generate at least one datapoint from the data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device; and

provide the at least one datapoint to at least one application configured to execute on the basic mobile phone device to enable the at least one application to synthesize the data to generate synthesized data to describe the location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information associated with the basic mobile phone device.

10. The basic mobile phone device according to claim 9, further comprising a data provider proxy configured to:

receive a data request from the at least one application; and

provide the data request to the at least one data synthesizer.

11. The basic mobile phone device according to claim 9, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory device further to generate a location datapoint from the data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device.

12. The basic mobile phone device according to claim 9, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory device further to generate a motion datapoint from the data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device.

13. The basic mobile phone device according to claim 9, wherein the processing device is further configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory device further to:

store the data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device in a collected datapoints repository; and

store the at least one datapoint generated from the data received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device in a synthesized datapoints repository.

14. The basic mobile phone device according to claim 9, wherein the processing device is further configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory device to:

discover other enhanced mobile phone devices located within a predetermined geographic proximity to the basic mobile phone device; and

store identities corresponding to other enhanced mobile phone devices.

15. The basic mobile phone device according to claim 9, further comprising a network access device configured for short range communication with the at least one enhanced mobile phone device.

16. A device, comprising:

a processing device to;

select collected data from a memory device accessibly to a mobile cellular device in response to a request from at least one application executing on the mobile cellular device, wherein the at least one application comprises a location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information application;

process the collected data in the at least one application to cause the at least one application to generate synthesized data to describe location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information based at least in part on an evaluation of at least one property of at least a subset of the collected data;

discover at least one enhanced mobile cellular device comprising a sensor configured to generate data not internally available to the mobile cellular device based at least in part on the evaluation of the at least one property of the at least the subset of the collected data;

transmit a data request from the mobile cellular device to the at least one enhanced mobile cellular device; and

receive data at the mobile cellular device based at least in part on the data request; and

a data synthesizer device to process the data received from the at least one enhanced mobile cellular device in the at least one application executing on the mobile cellular device to enable the at least one application to synthesize the data to generate synthesized data to describe the location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information.

17. The device of claim 16,

wherein the at least one application comprises a mapping application;

and

wherein the data request comprises a request for location data.

18. The device of claim 16,

wherein the at least one application comprises a motion application;

and

wherein the data request comprises a request for motion data.

19. The device of claim 16, wherein the network access device is further configured to transmit a request for enhanced data to the at least one enhanced mobile cellular device for at least one enhanced data service that is not available on the mobile cellular device.

20. The device of claim 19,

wherein the network access device is further configured to receive the enhanced data at the mobile cellular device from the at least one enhanced mobile cellular device;

wherein the data synthesizer device is further configured to synthesize at least one datapoint from the enhanced data received from the at least one enhanced mobile cellular device; and

wherein the at least one application is further configured to receive the at least one synthesized datapoint.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein the data synthesizer device is further configured to average a plurality of datapoints received from the at least one enhanced mobile cellular device.

22. The device of claim 16, wherein the data synthesizer device is further configured to discover at least another enhanced mobile cellular device.

23. The device of claim 16, wherein the network access device is further configured to transmit the data request across a short range communication protocol.

24. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processing device, configure the processing device to:

select collected data stored in a memory accessible to a basic mobile phone device in response to a request from at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device, wherein the at least one application comprises a location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information application;

process the collected data in the at least one application to cause the at least one application to generate synthesized data to describe location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information based at least in part on an evaluation of at least one property of at least a subset of the collected data;

discover at least one enhanced mobile phone device comprising a sensor configured to generate data not internally available to the basic mobile phone device based at least in part on the evaluation of the at least one property of the at least the subset of the collected data;

transmit a data request from the basic mobile phone device to the at least one enhanced mobile phone device;

receive data at the basic mobile phone device from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device based at least in part on the data request; and

process the data in the at least one application executing on the basic mobile phone device to enable the at least one application to synthesize the data to generate synthesized data to describe the location, motion, orientation, temperature, or biometric information.

25. The article of claim 24,

wherein the at least one application comprises a mapping application;

and

wherein the data request comprises a request for location data.

26. The article of claim 24,

wherein the at least one application comprises a motion application;

and

wherein the data request comprises a request for motion data.

27. The article of claim 24, wherein the data request comprises a request for enhanced data from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device for at least one enhanced data service that is not available on the mobile phone device.

28. The article of claim 27, wherein the processing device is further configured to:

receive the enhanced data at the mobile phone device from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device;

synthesize at least one datapoint from the received enhanced data; and

utilize the at least one synthesized datapoint in the at least one application.

29. The article of claim 28, wherein the processing device is further configured to:

average a plurality of datapoints received from the at least one enhanced mobile phone device.

30. The article of claim 24, wherein the processing device is further configured to:

discover at least another enhanced mobile phone device.

31. The article of claim 24, wherein the processing device is further configured to:

transmit the data request across a short range communication protocol to the at least one enhanced mobile phone device.