US 10,764,940 B2Granted

Automatic wireless communication protocol toggling

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsTuna Toksoz, Thomas Price

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Abstract

In general, this disclosure is directed to techniques for toggling communication connections based on signal strengths. A first computing device receives an indication of a user input to send data packets to a second computing device. Responsive to receiving the indication, the first computing device determines a signal strength of a first wireless communication connection, comprising one of a cellular network connection or a wireless local area network connection, to the second computing device, and determines whether the signal strength satisfies a threshold signal strength level. Responsive to determining that the signal strength does not satisfy the threshold signal strength level, the first computing device automatically establishes a second wireless communication connection, including a mesh network using a different wireless communication protocol than the first wireless communication connection, to the second computing device, and sends the data packets to the second computing device via the second wireless communication connection.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a first mobile device, a first user input indication indicating input to transmit a first set of data packets to a destination device;
connecting, by the first mobile device, to a second mobile device via a first wireless communication connection;
sending, by the first mobile device, the first set of data packets to the second mobile device via the first wireless communication connection, the first set of data packets when received by the second mobile device causing the second mobile device to transmit the first set of data packets to the recipient device via a second wireless communication connection, the second wireless communication connection comprising a different wireless protocol than the first wireless communication connection;
and
after the second mobile device sends the first set of data packets to the recipient device via the second wireless communication connection:
receiving, at the first mobile device, a second user input indication indicating input to transmit a second set of data packets to the recipient device;
disconnecting, by the first mobile device, from the first wireless communication connection with the second mobile device;
connecting, by the first mobile device, to the recipient device via the second wireless communication connection;
and
sending, by the first mobile device, the second set of data packets to the recipient device via the second wireless communication connection.

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Facts

Application: 16/441,721Filed 14 Jun 2019 · continuation
Priority: 24 Mar 2016
Published: US 2019/0306901 A13 Oct 2019
Granted: 1 Sep 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04W 76/10
Connection management: connection setup
G06F 21/335
Using certificates: for accessing specific resources, e.g. using Kerberos tickets
H04B 17/318
Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters: received signal strength
H04L 69/18
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…

Family

Application15/079,306Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Mar 2016
Application15/941,900Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Mar 2018
US 2019/0306901 A1Pre-grant publication · published 3 Oct 2019
US 10,342,053 B2Parent of this continuation
US 9,949,302 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0280487 A1Published application
US 2018/0227965 A1Published application
US 10,764,940 B2This patent

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