Cooperating Delegated Devices for Backscattering Communication and Energy Harvesting
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsDomenico Ficara, Amine Choukir, Pascal Thubert, Leo Caldarola, Mathieu Monney, Jerome Henry, Arun G. Khanna
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Abstract
A backscatter communication device assistant may be provided. A computing device may designate a client device as a backscatter communication device assistant. Next, a report indicating a location of a backscatter communication device may be received from the backscatter communication device assistant. Then the backscatter communication device may be caused to receive energy. Data originating from the backscatter communication device may then be received.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- designating, by a computing device, a client device as a backscatter communication device assistant;
- receiving, from the backscatter communication device assistant, a report indicating a location of a backscatter communication device;
- causing the backscatter communication device to receive energy, wherein the energy comprises ambient energy;
- and
- receiving data originating from the backscatter communication device.
A system comprising:
- a memory storage;
- and
- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
- designate a client device as a backscatter communication device assistant;
- receive, from the backscatter communication device assistant, a report indicating a location of a backscatter communication device;
- and
- cause the backscatter communication device to receive energy, wherein the energy comprises ambient energy.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a set of instructions which when executed perform a method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
- designating, by a computing device, a client device as a backscatter communication device assistant;
- receiving, from the backscatter communication device assistant, a report indicating a location of a backscatter communication device;
- causing the backscatter communication device to receive energy, wherein the energy comprises ambient energy;
- and
- receiving data originating from the backscatter communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.