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US 2015/0031290 A1Published application
Systems and methods for providing one or more functionalities to a wearable computing device with small form factor
OwnerPablos Holman, Roderick A. Hyde +5inventors
InventorsPablos Holman, Roderick A. Hyde, Royce A. Levien, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, Clarence T. Tegreene
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Abstract
A method substantially as shown and described in the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein. A device substantially as shown and described in the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein.
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A computationally-implemented method, comprising:
- detecting presence of one or more electronic devices near a wearable computing device that are within a spatial pod of the wearable computing device, the spatial pod of the wearable computing device being a spatial volume that includes the wearable computing device and being defined by an enveloping boundary, where low-power signals generated by the wearable computing device being discernible over background noise within the enveloping boundary and not discernible over background noise outside the enveloping boundary, the wearable computing device being a computing device designed to be worn by a user;
- transmitting, by the wearable computing device, one or more low-power query signals to the one or more nearby electronic devices to query the one or more nearby electronic devices to ascertain which, if any, of the one or more nearby electronic devices provides one or more specific functionalities that are being sought by the wearable computing device;
- receiving, by the one or more nearby electronic devices, the one or more low-power query signals;
- transmitting to the wearable computing device, by the one or more nearby electronic devices, one or more confirmation signals that at least indicates that the one or more nearby computing device possess the one or more specific functionalities;
- receiving, by the wearable computing device, the one or more confirmation signals;
- obtaining, by the wearable computing device, the one or more specific functionalities from the one or more nearby electronic devices based, at least in part, on the one or more confirmation signals received by the wearable computing device;
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- controlling the wearable computing device based, at least in part, results of obtaining the one or more specific functionalities.
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