Link quality diagnostic application
AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsStephen Paul Flood, Beau Jay Polinske
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Abstract
A system for use by an end user of a wearable device may include a personal electronic device configured to communicate over a wireless communication link to the wearable device. The personal electronic device may include a link quality diagnostic application. The personal electronic device is configured to operate on the link quality diagnostic application to present the end user of the wearable device with one or more troubleshooting questions based on a link quality degradation, and process one or more answers from the end user, and provide diagnostic feedback to the end user to suggest corrective action to improve the link quality of the wireless communication link.
Claims20
A system for use with a wearable device and by an end user of the wearable device to improve wireless communication link quality, comprising:
- a personal electronic device configured to communicate over a wireless communication link to the wearable device, the personal electronic device including memory, at least one hardware processor, and a user interface configured for use to present one or more troubleshooting questions to the end user and receive one or more answers from the end user;
- the personal electronic device further including a link quality diagnostic application in the memory, wherein the at least one hardware processor of the personal electronic device is configured to operate on the link quality diagnostic application to use the user interface to:
- acquire at least one link quality metric (LQM) for the wireless link measured using the personal electronic device, the wearable device, or both the personal electronic device and the wearable device;
- detect a link quality degradation using the at least one LQM;
- present the end user of the wearable device with the one or more troubleshooting questions based on the link quality degradation, and process one or more answers to the one or more troubleshooting questions, wherein the one or more answers are from the end user;
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- provide diagnostic feedback to the end user, based on the processed one or more answers, to suggest corrective action to improve the link quality of the wireless communication link.
A method performed to improve wireless communication link quality using a link quality diagnostic application operated on by a personal electronic device that has at least one hardware processor and a user interface configured for use to present one or more troubleshooting questions to the end user and receive one or more answers from the end user, the method including using the personal electronic device and the link quality diagnostic application to:
- acquire at least one link quality metric (LQM) for a wireless communication link measured using the personal electronic device, a wearable device, or both the personal electronic device and the wearable device, the wireless communication link being between the wearable device and the personal electronic device or between the wearable device and another external device;
- detect a link quality degradation for the wireless communication link using the at least one LQM;
- present an end user of the wearable device with the one or more troubleshooting questions based on the link quality degradation;
- process one or more answers to the one or more troubleshooting questions, wherein the one or more answers are from the end user;
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- provide diagnostic feedback to the end user, based on the processed one or more answers, to suggest corrective action to improve the link quality.
A system for use with a wearable device and by an end user of the wearable device to improve wireless communication link quality, comprising:
- a personal electronic device configured to communicate over a wireless communication link to the wearable device, the personal electronic device including at least one hardware processor and a user interface configured for use to present one or more troubleshooting questions to the end user and receive one or more answers from the end user;
- the at least one hardware processor of the personal electronic device configured to interact with a cloud-based link quality diagnostic application, wherein the personal electronic device and the cloud-based link quality diagnostic application are configured to cooperate to use the user interface to:
- acquire at least one link quality metric (LQM) for the wireless link measured using the personal electronic device, the wearable device, or both the personal electronic device and the wearable device;
- detect a link quality degradation using the at least one LQM;
- present the end user of the wearable device with the one or more troubleshooting questions based on the link quality degradation, and process one or more answers to the one or more troubleshooting questions, wherein the one or more answers are from the end user;
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- provide diagnostic feedback to the end user, based on the processed one or more answers, to suggest corrective action to improve the link quality of the wireless communication link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.