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US 2006/0041561 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for wirelessly sharing a file using an application-level connection
OwnerHoward Singer, Laird Popkin +1inventors
InventorsHoward Singer, Laird Popkin, Yariv Sadan
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Abstract
Ad hoc application-level connections are established between wireless devices. Autonomous selection of files on a provider device facilitates migration of a file from the file provider to a file receiver. Once a file provider and a file receiver are communicatively coupled using an application-level connection, a portion of a determined file is conveyed from the provider node to a receiver node while a connection remains viable.
Claims28
A method for wirelessly sharing a file comprising:
- recognizing a neighbor node;
- establishing a first application-level connection with the recognized neighbor node;
- determining a file to be shared with the neighbor node;
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- conveying to the neighbor node a portion of the determined file while the first application-level connection is viable.
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A wireless file provider device comprising:
- processor capable of executing an instruction sequence;
- wireless interface capable of interacting with a wireless network;
- and
- memory capable of storing a file cache and one or more instruction sequences including:
- peer-to-peer module that, when executed by the processor, minimally causes the processor to:
- recognize a first neighbor node;
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- establish a first application-level connection with the recognized neighbor node using the wireless interface;
- file determination module that, when executed by the processor, minimally causes the processor to determine a file to be shared with the recognized neighbor node;
- and
- conveyance module that, when executed by the processor, minimally causes the processor to convey from the file cache to the first connection established with the first recognized neighbor node a portion of a determined file while the established connection remains viable.
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