Personal area network apparatus

• US 8,700,815 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tri-County Excelsior Foundation (Oso IP, LLC)
• Inventors: Donaghey, Robert J
• Primary Examiner(s): TSENG, CHENG YUAN
• Application Number:
  US13/754,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268698A1
• Time in Patent Office: 440 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 710/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/10 Program control for peripheral devices G06F13/14 - G06F13/42 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/38 Information transfer, e.g. on bus G06F13/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2612 Arrangements for wireless medium access control, e.g. by allocating physical layer transmission capacity H04B7/2615 - H04B7/2643 take precedence; provision for broadband connection H04Q11/0478
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5038 for local use, e.g. in LAN or USB networks, or in a controller area network [CAN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5069 for group communication, multicast communication or broadcast communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/00 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A peripheral device comprises a first entity and a second entity. In operation, the first/second entities are configured to respectively: receive a first/second entity-related message from at least one other device to indicate the availability of the at least one other device for attachment, send, to the at least one other device, a first/second entity-related message indicating the availability for communication with the at least one other device, receive, from the at least one other device, a first/second entity-related signal including a first/second entity-related peripheral device identifier, send a first/second entity-related response to the at least one other device, receive, from the at least one other device, a first/second entity-related device response, and send, to the at least one other device, a first/second entity-related second peripheral response including the first/second entity-related peripheral device identifier.

Claims

1. A portable endpoint device for use on a network, comprising:

a first virtual device and a second virtual device integrated in a same single unit and configured such that the first virtual device and the second virtual device are configured to allow communication therewith as virtually different physical devices despite being integrated in the same single unit;

circuitry; and

a transceiver in communication with the circuitry, the portable endpoint device configured to cause the transceiver to;

receive, directly endpoint-to-endpoint over a shared wireless area communication medium utilizing at least one channel without passing through any intermediate node such that no wireless routing occurs therebetween over the shared wireless area communication medium, a first signal from another endpoint device without being wireless sly routed therethrough to indicate the availability of the another endpoint device for attachment over the shared wireless area communication medium, the first signal including a unique device identifier of the another endpoint device;

send, to the another endpoint device directly endpoint-to-endpoint over the shared wireless area communication medium without passing through any intermediate node such that no wireless routing occurs therebetween over the hared wireless area communication medium, a second signal utilizing first scheduling-related information, the second signal including a first one of a plurality of identifiers for unique identification in association with the portable endpoint device;

receive, from the another endpoint device directly endpoint-to-endpoint over the shared wireless area communication medium without passing through any intermediate node such that no wireless routing occurs therebetween over the shared wireless area communication medium, a third signal that is sent in response to the second signal, the third signal including the first one of the identifiers for unique identification in association with the portable endpoint device; and

receive, from the another endpoint device directly endpoint-to-endpoint over the shared wireless area communication medium utilizing at least one other channel different from the at least one channel without passing through any intermediate node such that no wireless routing occurs therebetween over the shared wireless area communication medium, data utilizing a second one of the identifiers for identification in association with the portable endpoint device, for data transfer in connection with a group owned by the another endpoint device and including at least the portable endpoint device and the another endpoint device.