US 10,595,267 B2 · Conveying information via auxiliary device selection

Abstract

A transmitter is configured to convey N bits of information and L bits of information, for a total of N+L bits of information, to a destination device via an auxiliary device. The transmitter is configured to select, from a plurality of auxiliary devices that are respectively associated with different possible states of the L bits of information, an auxiliary device that is associated with a state of the L bits of information to be conveyed. L may be ≥1. The transmitter is also configured to convey the N+L bits of information from the transmitter to the destination device via the selected auxiliary device, without the transmitter transmitting any of the L bits of information to the destination device or the selected auxiliary device, by transmitting a signal to the selected auxiliary device. This signal comprises the N bits of information. N may be ≥0.

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Dependent claims

A method of receiving at a destination device N bits of information and L bits of information, for a total of N+L bits of information, the method comprising:

receiving at the destination device a first signal from an auxiliary device of a plurality of auxiliary devices, wherein each of the plurality of auxiliary devices is respectively associated with a different state of the L bits of information, wherein the first signal that is received at the destination device from the auxiliary device is received at the destination device from the auxiliary device responsive to the auxiliary device having received a second signal from a transmitter, the second signal from the transmitter including the N bits of information but being devoid of the L bits of information, wherein L≥1, and wherein N≥0;
and
determining a state of the N+L bits of information by using the first signal that is received at the destination device from the auxiliary device.

A destination device comprising:

communications circuitry;
and
processing circuitry configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving via the communications circuitry a first signal from an auxiliary device of a plurality of auxiliary devices, which each of the plurality of auxiliary devices is respectively associated with a different state of L bits of information that a transmitter conveys to the destination device, wherein the first signal that is received from the auxiliary device comprises N bits of information, different from the L bits of information, that the transmitter further conveys to the destination device, wherein the first signal that is received at the destination device from the auxiliary device is received at the destination device from the auxiliary device responsive to the auxiliary device having received a second signal from the transmitter comprising the N bits of information but being devoid of the L bits of information, wherein L≥1 and N≥0;
and
determining a state of the N+L bits of information by using the first signal that is received at the destination device from the auxiliary device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Conveying information via auxiliary device selection

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