Methods and systems of allocating application functions to motion-correlated devices

• US 9,788,138 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2015
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Miller, Brian Frederick
• Primary Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US14/678,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20160295010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

Embodiments include systems and methods of allocating application functions to motion-correlated devices. A processor may determine whether a first motion of a first mobile device and a second motion of a second mobile device are correlated. The processor may allocate a first application function to the first mobile device and a second application function to the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated.

Claims

1. A method of allocating application functions to two or more mobile devices, comprising:

determining, by a processor, whether a first motion of a first mobile device and a second motion of a second mobile device are correlated, within one of two or more correlation tiers by; and

comparing the first and second motions to two or more threshold; and

identifying a correlation tier within the one of the two or more correlation tiers based on the comparison of the first and second motions to the two or more thresholds; and

allocating, by the processor, a first application function to the first mobile device and a second application function to the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application function and the second application function of an application running on one of the first and second mobile devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application function and the second application function are functions of an application launched on one of the first and second mobile devices after determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first application function and the second application function is a latent application function.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining whether the first motion of the first mobile device and the second motion of the second mobile device are correlated comprises determining whether the first motion and the second motion are correlated within a correlation threshold.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said allocating the first application function to the first mobile device and the second application function to the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated comprises allocating the first application function and the second application function based on the identified correlation tier.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the processor, whether the first motion of the first mobile device and the second motion of the second mobile device are no longer correlated; and

performing, by the processor, one or more of;

allocating both of the first and second application functions to one of the first mobile device and the second mobile device;

terminating at least one of the first application function and the second application function; and

launching an application on one or more of the first mobile device and the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are no longer correlated.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile device is a mobile communication device and the second mobile device is a wearable device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the wearable device is a smartwatch.

10. A method of allocating application functions among a first mobile device and a second mobile device, comprising:

determining, by a processor, whether a first motion of the first mobile device held in a hand of the user and a second motion of the second mobile device worn on a wrist of the user are correlated within one of two or more correlation tiers by;

comparing the first and second motions to two or more thresholds; and

identifying a correlation tier within the one of the two or more correlation tiers based on the comparison of the first and second motions to the two or more thresholds; and

allocating, by the processor, at least one application function of an application running on one of the first mobile device or the second mobile device to the other of the first mobile device or the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion of the first mobile device held in the hand of the user and the second motion of the second mobile device worn on the wrist of the user are correlated.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said allocating, by the processor, the at least one application function to at least one of the first mobile device held in the hand of the user or the second mobile device worn on the wrist of the user comprises allocating, by the processor, a first application function of the at least one application to the first mobile device held in the hand of the user and a second application function of the at least one application to the second mobile device worn on the wrist of the user.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said allocating, by the processor, at least one application function to at least one of the first mobile device held in the hand of the user or the second mobile device worn on the wrist of the user comprises allocating, by the processor, a first application function of the at least one application to the first mobile device held in the hand of the user and a second application function of the at least one application to the second mobile device worn on the wrist of the user in response to determining based on a degree of correlation between the first motion and the second motion that the first mobile device is being held in the user'"'"'s hand connected to the wrist on which the second mobile device is being worn.

13. A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable software instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations for allocating application functions to two or more mobile devices, comprising:

determining, by a processor, whether a first motion of a first mobile device and a second motion of a second mobile device are correlated within one of two or more correlation tiers by;

comparing the first and second motions to two or more thresholds; and

identifying a correlation tier within the one of the two or more correlation tiers based on the comparison of the first and second motions to the two or more thresholds; and

allocating, by the processor, at least one of a first application function to the first mobile device and a second application function to the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated.

14. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the stored processor-executable software instructions are configured to cause the processor to perform operations such that allocating at least one of the first application function to the first mobile device and the second application function to the second mobile device in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated comprises allocating the first application function and the second application function of an application running on one of the first and second mobile devices in response to determining that the first motion and the second motion are correlated.

15. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the stored processor-executable software instructions are configured to cause a processor to perform operations such that at least one of the first application function and the second application function is a latent application function.

16. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the stored processor-executable software instructions are configured to cause the processor to perform operations such that determining whether the first motion of the first mobile device and the second motion of the second mobile device are correlated comprises determining whether the first motion and the second motion are correlated within a correlation threshold.