AD-HOC Network
AssigneeKopin Corporation
InventorsDavid Hollick, Christopher Parkinson
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Abstract
The invention is a mobile device collaboration framework (MDCF)—a form of communications framework, which enables devices to discover other devices that support the framework, access applications and services on those devices and exchange a variety of media and application-specific data. It is not tied to any one communications medium or protocol. It supports access restriction and data security at many levels. Sessions can involve multiple devices, creating subnets of devices, each with a shared purpose or task.
Claims17
A method of networking digital processing devices comprising:
- (a) using a collaboration services module executed by a processor:
- detecting one or more devices within range;
- determining a factor in common amongst the detected devices in range of the processor;
- requesting the detected device to interact;
- and
- upon acceptance by the detected device, interacting the processor and the detected device, resulting in a network including the processor and the detected device;
- and
- (b) configuring the network to interact the processor and the detected device as a function of determined factor in common.
A computer apparatus networking digital processing devices comprising:
- a collaboration services module executed by a processor, the collaboration services module
- detecting one or more devices within range,
- determining a factor in common amongst the detected devices in range of the processor, and
- requesting the detected device to interact;
- and
- upon acceptance by the detected device, interacting the processor and the detected device, resulting in a network including the processor and the detected device;
- and
- a device collaboration framework configuring the network to interact the processor and the detected device as a function of determined factor in common.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.