Wireless server access control system and method

• US 9,529,512 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2015
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Myth Innovations, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Myth Innovations, Inc.
• Inventors: Luckett, James Albert Jr., Rowlee, Chad Michael, Fu, Shengli
• Primary Examiner(s): BEHESHTI SHIRAZI, SAYED ARESH
• Application Number:
  US14/606,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20150143478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 726/1, 726/4, 726/7, 726/11, 709/204, 715/736
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/82 data or demand driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0218 Distributed architectures, e.g. distributed firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 : using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 : Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/088 : using filters or firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information

Abstract

A wireless server access control system comprising a wireless server generating a local wireless communications network, the wireless server having a processor and a plurality of redundant data memory devices. A first wireless device coupled to the wireless server through the local wireless communications network. An access control system operating on the wireless server, the access control system configured to generate a user control on a user interface of the first wireless device to allow a user to permit or deny access to the processor and the data memory devices of the wireless server by a second wireless device through the local wireless communications network.

Claims

1. A dynamic wireless server environment comprising:

a dynamic mobile server configured to generate a local wireless communications network, the dynamic mobile server having a first processor configured to run a first operating system, a second processor configured to run a second operating system, a processor pooling application configured to operate on one or more of the processors, and a plurality of redundant data memory devices, the first operating system different from the second operating system;

the processor pooling application configured to allocate processor capacity of the first processor for a first application operating on a first wireless device and processor capacity of the second processor for a second application operating on a second wireless device, wherein the first wireless device is configured to run the first operating system and the second wireless device is configured to run the second operating system;

a firewall system configured to operate on one or more processors of the dynamic mobile server and configured to prevent a device on an external network and connected to the first wireless device from directly accessing the second wireless device over the local wireless communications network;

the dynamic mobile server is configured to generate a cubical spatial grid as a function of location data or network address data and a calibration layout placed within an area that can be viewed from an optical head mounted display;

wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to analyze image data generated by the optical head mounted display to determine a location of the dynamic mobile server, the first wireless device, and the second wireless device within the cubical spatial grid, and to include a third spatial location dimension to each of the dynamic mobile server, the first wireless device and the second wireless device;

the dynamic mobile server is configured to assign each of the dynamic mobile server, the first wireless device and the second wireless device a three-dimensional spatial location and device identifier that are mapped to an Internet protocol (IP) network address;

wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to update the spatial location relative to the mapped IP address upon movement of any one of the dynamic mobile server, first wireless device or second wireless device;

wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to assign the third spatial location based on the image data and frequency timing data received by the dynamic mobile server; and

the dynamic mobile server is configured to assign three-dimensional spatial location data to the first wireless device and second wireless device relative to the dynamic mobile server, and within the three-dimensional spatial grid formed by the dynamic mobile server.

2. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 1 further comprising a mobile server interface application configured to operate on the first wireless device, the mobile server interface application configured to generate one or more user controls to allow a user to identify one or more data sources from the second wireless device to be backed up to the wireless server.

3. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 1, wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to operate the first application and the second application in cooperation with the first wireless device and the second wireless device.

4. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 1 wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to assign unique coordinate data to the first wireless device that identifies a physical location of the first wireless device relative to an origin at the wireless server and is configured to use the unique coordinate data of the first wireless device to update the spatial location of the first wireless device.

5. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 4 wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to assign unique coordinate data to the second wireless device that identifies a physical location of the second wireless device relative to the origin at the wireless server and is configured to use the unique coordinate data of the second wireless device to update the spatial location of the second wireless device.

6. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 5 wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to generate the unique coordinate data for the first wireless device and the unique coordinate data for the second device in a virtual coordinate system.

7. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 5 wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to generate the unique coordinate data for the first wireless device and the unique coordinate data for the second device in the cubical spatial grid.

8. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 5 wherein the dynamic mobile server is configured to calibrate the unique coordinate data for the first wireless device and the unique coordinate data for the second wireless device as a function of wireless signal strength.

9. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 1 wherein the firewall system is configured to prevent a device on an external network from directly accessing the first wireless device in a first physical location and the second wireless device in a second physical location.

10. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 1 wherein the firewall system is configured to prevent a device on an external network connected to the first wireless device from directly accessing the second wireless device over the local wireless network when the second wireless device is in a first physical location and to allow the device on the external network connected to the first wireless device to directly access the second wireless device over the local wireless network when the second device is in a second physical location that is different from the first physical location.

11. A method for controlling access in a dynamic wireless server environment, comprising:

generating a local wireless communications network with a dynamic wireless server having a first processor running a first operating system, a second processor running a second operating system, a processor pooling application operating on one or more of the processors, and a plurality of redundant data memory devices, where the first operating system different from the second operating system;

allocating, with the processor pooling application, processor capacity of the first processor for an application operating on a first wireless device and processor capacity of the second processor for an application operating on a second wireless device, wherein the first wireless device runs the first operating system and the second wireless device runs the second operating system;

activating a firewall system on one or more processors of the dynamic wireless server that is configured to prevent a device on an external network and connected to the first wireless device from directly accessing the second wireless device over the local wireless communications network;

generating a cubical spatial grid by the dynamic wireless server as a function of location data or network address data and a calibration layout placed within an area that can be viewed from an optical head mounted display;

configuring the dynamic wireless server to analyze image data generated by the optical head mounted display to determine a location of the dynamic wireless server, the first wireless device, and the second wireless device within the cubical spatial grid, and to include a third spatial location dimension to each of the dynamic wireless server, the first wireless device and the second wireless device, wherein each of the dynamic wireless server, first wireless device and second wireless device are assigned a three-dimensional spatial location and device identifier that are mapped to an Internet protocol (IP) network address;

configuring the dynamic wireless server to update a spatial location relative to the mapped IP address upon movement of any one of the dynamic wireless server, first wireless device or second wireless device;

wherein the dynamic wireless server is configured to assign the third spatial location as a function of the image data and frequency timing data received by the dynamic wireless server; and

wherein the dynamic wireless server is configured to assign the three-dimensional spatial location to the first wireless device and second wireless device is relative to the dynamic wireless server, and within the three-dimensional spatial grid formed by the dynamic wireless server.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising generating one or more user controls to allow a user to identify one or more data sources to be backed up to the wireless server.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising allocating processor capacity for an application operating on the first wireless device to a processor of the second wireless device.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising assigning unique coordinate data to the first wireless device that identifies a physical location of the first wireless device.

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising assigning unique coordinate data to the second wireless device that identifies a physical location of the second wireless device.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the unique coordinate data for the first wireless device and the unique coordinate data for the second device identifies the physical location of the first wireless device and the physical location of the second wireless device relative to a physical location of the wireless server.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the unique coordinate data for the first wireless device and the unique coordinate data for the second wireless device is stored in three predetermined data fields of a network address field.

18. The method of claim 11 further comprising preventing a device on an external network from directly accessing the first wireless device and the second wireless device over the local wireless network using a firewall.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the dynamic wireless server is configured to operate the first application and the second application in cooperation with the first wireless device and the second wireless device.

20. The dynamic wireless server environment of claim 11 wherein the dynamic wireless server is configured to assign unique coordinate data to the first wireless device that identifies a physical location of the first wireless device relative to an origin at the wireless server and is configured to use the unique coordinate data of the first wireless device to update the spatial location of the first wireless device.