Wireless call hitchhiker
OwnerPeter J. Armbruster, Mark L. Shaughnessy +1inventors
InventorsPeter J. Armbruster, Mark L. Shaughnessy, Bradley R. Schaefer
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Abstract
A hitchhiker device (20) has a wireless communication capability. The hitchhiker device is located in a non-network area (10) and requires the transmission of a wireless message. The hitchhiker device requests via an RF link (25) a donor device (30). The hitchhiker device transmits the message to the donor device. The donor device stores the wireless message. Subsequently, the donor is relocated to a wireless area and transmits the stored message via a network link (35).
Claims21
A wireless communication arrangement for wireless service in a non-network area comprising:
- a hitchhiker device including a communicator, the hitchhiker device located in the non-network area;
- a donor device including a communicator, the donor device receiving a communication from the hitchhiker device;
- the donor device is moved to a network area;
- and
- in the network area, the donor device transmitting the communication to a network.
A method for wireless communications in a non-network area comprising the steps of:
- requesting by a hitchhiker device a donor device;
- sending a wireless message from the hitchhiker device to the donor device;
- moving the donor device from the non-network area to a network area;
- and
- transmitting the wireless message by the donor device to a network.
A wireless communication method for sending a message from a network area to a non-network area comprising the steps of:
- requesting by a donor device in the network area the message for a hitchhiker device;
- moving the donor device from the network area to the non-network area;
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- sending the message from the donor device to the hitchhiker device located in the non-network area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.