US 12,199,661 B2Granted

Pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session

AssigneeLynq Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAbhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks

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Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing, via at least a portion of multiple processing devices, information associated with a network in connection with one or more device pairing requests from one or more of the processing devices; implementing, via at least one the multiple processing devices, a pairing algorithm, wherein the pairing algorithm comprises searching for one or more of the processing devices, in accordance with one or more temporal values associated with the at least one processing device and at least one of the one or more device pairing requests corresponding thereto, and one or more pairing parameters; and automatically pairing, via the network and based on the pairing algorithm, the at least one processing device to one or more of the processing devices.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

initiating, in response to at least one pairing request from at least one processing device, one or more parameters associated with a pairing mode, wherein at least a portion of the one or more parameters associated with the pairing mode encompass distinct values from one or more parameters associated with a post-pairing communication mode, and wherein initiating the one or more parameters comprises:
activating, for the at least one processing device, one or more data transmission settings designated for pairing the at least one processing device with one or more additional processing devices, wherein activating the one or more data transmission settings designated for pairing comprises restricting data transmission power for the at least one processing device to a designated level that is less than one or more data transmission power limitations associated with the post-pairing communication mode;
implementing one or more data packet-related configurations to be used during the pairing mode;
and
initializing one or more exit conditions for transitioning the at least one processing device from the pairing mode to the post-pairing communication mode;
performing, in accordance with the one or more initiated parameters, one or more pairing mode operations, wherein performing one or more pairing mode operations comprises, via the at least one processing device, transmitting one or more data packets and monitoring for one or more received data packets meeting one or more predetermined criteria;
and
transitioning the at least one processing device from the pairing mode to the post-pairing communication mode upon a determination that at least a portion of the one or more exit conditions has been met.

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A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device:

to initiate, in response to at least one pairing request from at least one processing device, one or more parameters associated with a pairing mode, wherein at least a portion of the one or more parameters associated with the pairing mode encompass distinct values from one or more parameters associated with a post-pairing communication mode, and wherein initiating the one or more parameters comprises:
activating, for the at least one processing device, one or more data transmission settings designated for pairing the at least one processing device with one or more additional processing devices, wherein activating the one or more data transmission settings designated for pairing comprises restricting data transmission power for the at least one processing device to a designated level that is less than one or more data transmission power limitations associated with the post-pairing communication mode;
implementing one or more data packet-related configurations to be used during the pairing mode;
and
initializing one or more exit conditions for transitioning the at least one processing device from the pairing mode to the post-pairing communication mode;
to perform, in accordance with the one or more initiated parameters, one or more pairing mode operations, wherein performing one or more pairing mode operations comprises, via the at least one processing device, transmitting one or more data packets and monitoring for one or more received data packets meeting one or more predetermined criteria;
and
to transition the at least one processing device from the pairing mode to the post-pairing communication mode upon a determination that at least a portion of the one or more exit conditions has been met.

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An apparatus comprising:

at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;
the at least one processing device being configured:
to initiate, in response to at least one pairing request from at least one processing device, one or more parameters associated with a pairing mode, wherein at least a portion of the one or more parameters associated with the pairing mode encompass distinct values from one or more parameters associated with a post-pairing communication mode, and wherein initiating the one or more parameters comprises:
activating, for the at least one processing device, one or more data transmission settings designated for pairing the at least one processing device with one or more additional processing devices, wherein activating the one or more data transmission settings designated for pairing comprises restricting data transmission power for the at least one processing device to a designated level that is less than one or more data transmission power limitations associated with the post-pairing communication mode;
implementing one or more data packet-related configurations to be used during the pairing mode;
and
initializing one or more exit conditions for transitioning the at least one processing device from the pairing mode to the post-pairing communication mode;
to perform, in accordance with the one or more initiated parameters, one or more pairing mode operations, wherein performing one or more pairing mode operations comprises, via the at least one processing device, transmitting one or more data packets and monitoring for one or more received data packets meeting one or more predetermined criteria;
and
to transition the at least one processing device from the pairing mode to the post-pairing communication mode upon a determination that at least a portion of the one or more exit conditions has been met.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/121,274Filed 14 Mar 2023 · continuation
Priority: 26 Mar 2018
Published: US 2023/0216700 A16 Jul 2023
Granted: 14 Jan 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification24 codes

H04B 1/7136
Using frequency hopping: arrangements for generation of hop frequencies, e.g. using a bank of frequency sources, using continuous tuning or using…
H04B 1/7143
Using frequency hopping: arrangements for generation of hop patterns
H04B 1/715
Using frequency hopping: interference-related aspects
H04B 1/7156
Using frequency hopping: arrangements for sequence synchronisation

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Application62/648,149Us provisional application · filed 26 Mar 2018
Application16/363,718Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Mar 2019
Application17/181,673Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Feb 2021
US 2023/0216700 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Jul 2023
US 11,632,259 B1Parent of this continuation
US 10,958,463 B1Parent of this continuation
US 12,199,661 B2This patent

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