Selection of communication partners using location and velocity information
AssigneeIPCom GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsMaik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Achim Luft
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for selecting a transmission mode for a transmission to at least one further user equipment, by selecting a communication profile for communication with the at least one further user equipment out of a set of provided communication profiles as a function of at least one determined location property, wherein each communication profile defines a set of transmission parameters.
Claims22
A method performed by a first user equipment device for establishing a communication with at least one second user equipment device, the method comprising:
- receiving beacon signals from the at least one second user equipment device, the beacon signals providing location information concerning the at least one second user equipment device;
- obtaining the location information from the beacon signals, either directly from the beacon signals or by measuring a property of the beacon signals;
- using the beacon signals to derive a velocity measurement of the at least one second user equipment device;
- performing a categorization by assigning the at least one second user equipment device to one or more categories using the velocity measurement;
- selecting one or more of the at least one second user equipment devices as a communication partner using the categorization;
- determining a communication mode to be used for communication with the communication partner from a set of possible communication modes using a function of the location information concerning the at least one second user equipment device obtained from the beacon signals, wherein the determining is performed in advance of establishing a connection with the communication partner.
A first user equipment device for establishing a communication with at least one second user equipment device, the user equipment device being arranged to:
- receive beacon signals from the at least one second user equipment device, the beacon signals providing location information concerning the at least one second user equipment device;
- obtain the location information from the beacon signals, either directly from the beacon signals or by measuring a property of the beacon signals;
- use the beacon signals to derive a velocity measurement of the at least one second user equipment device;
- perform a categorization by assigning the at least one second user equipment device to one or more categories using the velocity measurement;
- select one or more of the at least one second user equipment devices as a communication partner using the categorization;
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- determine, in advance of establishing a connection with the communication partner, a communication mode to be used for communication with the communication partner from a set of possible communication modes using a function of the location information concerning the at least one second user equipment device obtained from the beacon signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.