US 2017/0318455 A1 · ADDRESSING WIRELESS NODES

Abstract

A user may point a control device at a controllable device for which control is desired, and the control device may detect the targeted controllable device. Additionally, the control device may detect a plurality of wireless nodes and list the available wireless nodes. For example, the control device may identify wireless nodes associated with a room in the house, or the control device may detect the wireless nodes within a certain range. The list may be a selectable list and a user may select the desired device to control from the list. Upon detection or user selection, the control device may establish control of the wireless node and initiate actions associated with the selected device.

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Dependent claims

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for selecting a controllable device, the WTRU comprising:

a memory, and;
a processor, the processor being configured to:
receive an image;
perform image recognition to determine a device within the image;
determine a direction to the device using the image;
generate a list of one or more devices based on a usage context;
determine that the device within the image is wirelessly controllable by the WTRU and belongs to the list of the one or more devices;
and
assign a priority value to the device based on the image recognition and the direction to the device.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/655,399Filed 20 Jul 2017

Priority

3 May 2010

Published

2 Nov 2017

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Classification8 codes

H04W 8/26
Network data management: network addressing or numbering for mobility support
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…
H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…

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Application61/330,771Us provisional application · filed 3 May 2010

Application13/099,857Continuation · filed 3 May 2011

Application14/096,842Continuation · filed 4 Dec 2013

Application15/655,399Continuation

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Abstract

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