MirrorLink with wireless serial bus

• US 9,641,960 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2014
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Verma, Lochan, Raveendran, Vijayalakshmi Rajasundaram
• Primary Examiner(s): HOANG, HIEU T
• Application Number:
  US14/539,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20160134996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 902 Days
• Field of Search: 709232, 709228
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4282 on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus on daisy chain buses G06F13/4247
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0809 Plug-and-play configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A first computing device includes a memory, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to establish a wireless connection to a second computing device using a Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform (ASP), transmit data from a car connectivity consortium (CCC) Information Element (IE) to the second computing device, and establish a MirrorLink session using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) to the second computing device via the wireless connection. The at least one processor may be further configured to establish a Wireless Serial Bus (WSB) session to the second computing device using the Wi-Fi Direct ASP via the wireless connection, and transmit data via the WSB session to the second computing device.

Claims

1. A method of wirelessly transmitting data, the method comprising:

establishing a wireless connection between a first computing device and a second computing device using a Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform;

transmitting, by the first computing device and to the second computing device, data corresponding to a car connectivity consortium information element;

establishing, via the wireless connection, a MirrorLink session between the first computing device and the second computing device using Universal Plug and Play, wherein establishing the MirrorLink session between the first computing device and the second computing device using Universal Plug and Play comprises transmitting or receiving, using Universal Plug and Play, data indicative that a supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus; and

establishing, for use with the established MirrorLink session, a Wireless Serial Bus session between the first computing device and the second computing device based on the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus comprises at least one of:

data indicative of a preferred remote user interface for the MirrorLink session;

or

a list of supported remote user interfaces.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the preferred remote user interface is Wireless Serial Bus, or wherein the list of supported remote user interfaces includes Wireless Serial Bus.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus is extensible markup language data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the first computing device and to the second computing device, data via the Wireless Serial Bus session.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing quality of service management on the MirrorLink session,

wherein performing quality of service comprises adjusting bandwidth utilization of one of a plurality of streams associated with the MirrorLink session to improve an experience of a user of the MirrorLink session.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising tearing down, by the first computing device, the Wireless Serial Bus session.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the data corresponding to the car connectivity consortium information element comprises:

transmitting, by the first computing device and to the second computing device, the connectivity consortium information element data as part of an argument in an Application Services Platform primitive using the Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform of the wireless connection.

9. A first computing device comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to;

establish a wireless connection with a second computing device using a Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform;

transmit data corresponding to a car connectivity consortium information element to the second computing device;

establish, via the wireless connection, a MirrorLink session with the second computing device using Universal Plug and Play, wherein to establish the MirrorLink session with the second computing device using Universal Plug and Play, the at least one processor is configured to transmit or receive, using Universal Plug and Play, data indicative that a supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus; and

establish, for use with the Mirror Link Session, a Wireless Serial Bus session with the second computing device based on the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus.

10. The first computing device of claim 9, wherein the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus comprises at least one of:

data indicative of a preferred remote user interface for the MirrorLink session;

or

a list of supported remote user interfaces.

11. The first computing device of claim 10, wherein the preferred remote user interface is Wireless Serial Bus, or wherein the list of supported remote user interfaces includes Wireless Serial Bus.

12. The first computing device of claim 9, wherein the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus is extensible markup language data.

13. The first computing device of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit data stored in the memory via the Wireless Serial Bus session to the second computing device.

14. The first computing device of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to perform quality of service management on the MirrorLink session,

wherein to perform quality of service management, the at least one processor is further configured to adjust bandwidth utilization of one of a plurality of streams associated with the MirrorLink session to improve an experience of a user of the MirrorLink session.

15. The first computing device of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to tear down the Wireless Serial Bus session.

16. The first computing device of claim 9, wherein to transmit the data corresponding to the car connectivity consortium information element, the at least one processor is configured to:

transmit the data from the connectivity consortium information element to the second computing device as part of an argument in an Application Services Platform primitive using the Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform of the wireless connection.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause at least one processor of a first computing device to:

establish a wireless connection with a second computing device using a Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform;

transmit data corresponding to a car connectivity consortium information element to the second computing device;

establish, via the wireless connection, a MirrorLink session with the second computing device using Universal Plug and Play, wherein to establish the MirrorLink session with the second computing device using Universal Plug and Play, the at least one processor is configured to transmit or receive, using Universal Plug and Play, data indicative that a supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus; and

establish, for use with the Mirror Link Session, a Wireless Serial Bus session with the second computing device based on the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus comprises at least one of:

data indicative of a preferred remote user interface for the MirrorLink session;

or

a list of supported remote user interfaces.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the preferred remote user interface is Wireless Serial Bus, or wherein the list of supported remote user interfaces includes Wireless Serial Bus.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the data indicative that the supported remote user interface includes Wireless Serial Bus is extensible markup language data.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to transmit data via the Wireless Serial Bus session to the second computing device.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to transmit the data corresponding to the car connectivity consortium information element further cause the at least one processor to:

transmit the data from the connectivity consortium information element to the second computing device as part of an argument in an Application Services Platform primitive using the Wi-Fi Direct Application Services Platform of the wireless connection.