Communication system and device using dynamic receiver addressing

• US 6,115,605 A
• Filed: 08/29/1997
• Issued: 09/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Polaris Wireless Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PNM Incorporated (Union Pacific Corporation)
• Inventors: Rao, Padmanabha R., Siccardo, Paolo L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEGREE, TRACY MICHELLE
• Application Number:
  US08/920,512
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426, 455/422, 455/432, 455/466, 455/32.1, 455/31.1, 455/410, 455/411, 455/38.1, 340/825.3, 340/825.31, 340/825.34, 380/23
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/022 One-way selective calling networks, e.g. wide area paging

Abstract

Method and a system for establishing a communication channel between a first communication device, or alternatively, a communication network operator, and one or more second communication devices. The identity of the one or more second communication devices is not pre-determined by the first communication device (or the communication network operator). Instead, the identity of which one or more of the second communication devices connects to the first communication device (or the network operator) is determined by the operation of one or more filters transmitted by the first communication device (or the network operator) on certain data that are both transmitted by the first communication device (or the network operator) as well as measured locally at each of the second communication devices.

Claims

1. A method of establishing a connection, via a communication network, between a first communication device and one or more second communication devices, none of said second communication devices having a predetermined identity, and each said second communication device having continuously available to it one or more locally generated data inputs, the method comprising the steps of:

sending from said first communication device a signal containing the message to be communicated, as well as a specification of a filter, possibly along with associated data required by said filter;

each of said second communication devices applying said filter to said associated data contained in said signal as well as to one or more said locally generated data; and

establishing a connection for transfer of said message with at least one second communication device only if the filter operation in the at least one second communication device results in a true condition.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the first communication device is the communication network operator.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the locally generated data in each said second communication device varies dynamically with time in a non-predetermined manner.

4. A method according to claim 3 wherein the locally generated data is a physical parameter measured in the environment surrounding the said second communication device.

5. A method according to claim 3 wherein the locally generated data is the geographic coordinates of the second communication device.

6. A method according to claim 1 wherein said transmitted filter is predetermined and known to both the first communication device and the second communication device.

7. A method according to claim 6 wherein a predetermined code identifying the filter specification is transmitted instead of the filter specification.

8. A method according to claim 1 wherein the transmitted filter is predetermined and known only to the first communication device.

9. A method according to claim 8 wherein at least one rule for generating the definition of the filter is transmitted and the filter is generated in the second communication device by executing said at least one rule in a local processor contained in the second communication device.

10. A method according to claim 1 wherein the said communication network is a radiotelephone network.

11. A method according to claim 1 wherein the said communication network is a paging network.

12. A method for operating a communication device for receiving a message from a communication network, said communication device having continuously available to it locally generated data that varies with time in a non-deterministic manner, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading into the communication device a signal from the communication network, said signal containing a filter specification, any associated data required by said filter as well as the said message;

applying said filter according to said specification to said downloaded data as well as to said locally available data; and

using the result of said application of said filter to determine if said communication device is entitled to receive the message contained in said signal.

13. A method according to claim 12 wherein the communication network is a radiotelephone network.

14. A method according to claim 12 wherein the communication network is a paging network.

15. A method of establishing a connection, via a communication network, between a first communication device and one or more second communication devices, the method comprising the steps of:

sending from said first communication device a signal containing the message to be communicated and at least one first data value;

having continuously available to each said second communication device at least one locally generated second data value that is a measure of a local environmental parameter; and

establishing a connection for transfer of said message with at least one second communication device only if a predetermined condition is satisfied between said first data value and said second data value available to said at least one second communication device.

16. A method of establishing a connection, via a communication network, between a first communication device and one or more second communication devices, the method comprising the steps of:

sending from said first communication device a signal containing the message to be communicated and specification of a filter and at least one first data value;

having at least one predetermined second data value locally stored in each said second communication device;

each of said second communication devices applying said filter to said first data and to said second data per said specification; and

establishing a connection for transfer of said message with at least one second communication device only if said filter operation in said at least one second communication device results in a true condition.