Wireless network connection management
AssigneeGreatCall, Inc.
InventorJoel Stair
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Abstract
Among other features, a communications device includes a wide area communications transceiver and a local wireless communications transceiver. The device is configured to recognize, via the local wireless communications transceiver, the presence of one or more peripheral wireless devices available for transferring data to the communications device. The device transmits to a remote site a list of the one or more recognized peripheral devices, and receives from the remote site an instruction to establish communications with a particular one of the one or more recognized peripheral devices. The device establishes communications with the particular recognized peripheral device in response to the received instruction, for example by pairing.
Claims22
A communications device, comprising:
- a wide area communications transceiver;
- a local wireless communications transceiver;
- a processor;
- and
- memory holding data and instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the communications device to:
- recognize, via the local wireless communications transceiver, the presence of one or more peripheral wireless devices available for transferring data to the communications device;
- transmit, to a remote site via the wide area communications transceiver, a list of the one or more recognized peripheral devices;
- receive, from the remote site via the wide area communications transceiver, an instruction to establish communications with a particular one of the one or more recognized peripheral devices;
- establish communications with the particular recognized peripheral device in response to the received instruction;
- receive from a user of the communications device an indication that a voice telephone call is to be placed via the wide area communications transceiver to an entity associated with the remote site, the indication being the actuation of a single control of the communications device;
- and
- placing the voice telephone call.
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A method of configuring a communications device, the method comprising:
- recognizing, by the communications device via a local wireless communications transceiver, the presence of one or more peripheral wireless devices available for transferring data to the communications device;
- transmitting, to a remote site via a wide area communications link, a list of the one or more recognized peripheral devices;
- receiving, from the remote site via the wide area communications link, an instruction to establish communications with a particular one of the one or more recognized peripheral devices;
- establishing communications with the particular recognized peripheral device in response to the received instruction,
- receiving, from a user of the communications device, an indication that a voice telephone call is to be placed via the wide area communications transceiver to an entity associated with the remote site, the indication being the actuation of a single control of the communications device;
- and
- placing the voice telephone call.
A method of operating a call center, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a communications device by a computer system at the call center via a wide area communications link, a list of the one or more peripheral devices recognized by the communications device as being available for establishing communications with the communications device;
- selecting a particular one of the one or more recognized peripheral devices;
- transmitting, to the communications device via the wide area communications link, an instruction to establish communications with the particular one of the one or more recognized peripheral devices;
- receiving a voice telephone call from the communications device via the wide area communications link;
- and
- providing health information or navigation assistance to a user of the communications device via the voice telephone call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.